Dr. William C. Snyder

B.S. Caltech 1982, Ph.D. RIT 1994 Imaging Science and Remote Sensing
Currently in Boston working at ALPHATECH Inc.


Publications

"Definition and Invariance Properties of Structured Surface BRDF," W.C. Snyder, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 40 1032-1037 (2002) tgrsbrdf.pdf

"Structured Surface Reciprocity: Theory and Counterexamples," W.C. Snyder, Applied Optics, 41 4307-4313 (2002) teleao.pdf

"Accuracy estimation for quasi-Monte Carlo simulations," W.C. Snyder, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 54 131-143 (2000) quasiacc.pdf

"Classification-based emissivity for land surface temperature measurement from space," W.C. Snyder, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 19 2753-2774 (1998)

"Thermodynamic constraints on reflectance reciprocity and Kirchhoff's law," W.C. Snyder, Z. Wan, and X. Li, Applied Optics, 37 3464-3470 (1998)

"Reciprocity of the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) in Measurements and Models of Structured Surfaces," W.C. Snyder, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36 685-691 (1998) recip.pdf

"BRDF Models to Predict Spectral Reflectance and Emissivity in the Thermal Infrared," W.C. Snyder and Z. Wan, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36 214-225 (1998) brdfmodels.pdf

"Requirements for satellite land surface temperature validation using a silt playa" W. C. Snyder, Z. Wan, Y. Zhang, and Y. Feng, Remote Sensing of Environment, (1997)

"MODIS LST Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document" Z. Wan and W. C. Snyder (1996)

"Thermal infrared (3-14um) bidirectional reflectance measurements of sands and soils" W. C. Snyder, Z. Wan, Y. Zhang, and Y. Feng, Remote Sensing of Environment, (1996)

"Surface temperature correction for active infrared reflectance measurements of natural materials," W. C. Snyder and Z. Wan, Applied Optics, (1996)

"A general in-scene parameter estimation method for quantitative image analysis," W. C. Snyder, IGARSS '94 Proceedings, (1994)


Other BRDF and Spectral Reflectance Resources

Excerpts from Nicodemus' original NBS standards monograph NBS160 for BRDF: nbs160.pdf.

Download spectral emissivity data from classification-based emissivity paper (above): combo.tar.gz

Download J. Salisbury's water, ice, snow, soil, mineral, and vegetation spectra in electronic form: salislib.tar.gz

Simon Hook's JPL Aster Spectral Library is here.


Software Tools


For more information, data, code, and reprints please E-mail: wcsnyder@ieee.org

Last updated May 09, 2002