Research Interest

Mr. Pollock has had a long, productive career in remote sensing. His broad responsibilities have been the optical-mechanical-cryogenic-electronic-nuclear hardening, development, design, fabrication, assembly and test of optical systems and components. The optical components are for use with light beams whose energy density ranges from less than a pico-watt per centimeter square, the thermal emission from 300 Kelvin objects, to greater than a giga-watt, the prompt radiation from exo-atmospheric nuclear events. The work has included the radiometric and the goniometric calibration of cryogenic long wavelength infrared remote sensors, their calibrators, ground-based airborne and exo-atmospheric and nuclear debris radiation shields for infrared detectors. He has been on the engineering staffs of Rockwell International and Teledyne Brown Engineering. In his present position as Associate Research Professor he is active in developing remote sensors for the measurement of transient induced flow in miscible fluids in a micro-gravity environment and the development of high accuracy remote sensing standards. The fluid flow work is for the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the remote sensor calibration standards work is in collaboration with the Department of Commerce, the Missile Defense Agency, NOAA, NASA and the remote sensing science community. Active support of the annual Remote Sensing Calibration Conference is by paper contribution, session chair and conference content selection. Recently, as the Deputy Principal Investigator for the Data Certification and Technology Transfer team and as a member of the Principal Investigators Executive Committee for the successful Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Program, his responsibilities were for the certification of the Virtual Level 2 data produced by the MSX Spacecrafts' suite of eleven Radiometric and Spectro-photometric Imagers. Specific responsibilities included the pointing and alignment of all the instruments and the calibration and data reduction processes for nine of the suite of eleven instruments, the Ultra-violet Visible Imaging Spectrometers and Imagers (UVISI). The satellite produced a nominal 8 giga Bytes of science data a day after its launch April 24, 1996.

Degrees

MS (Physics), University of Louisville, 1962
MS (Optical Sciences), University of Arizona, 1983

Recent Publications

Datla R., A. Smith, R. Kacker, NIST, D. B. Pollock, University of Alabama Huntsville, Satellite Sensor Data-Traceability to SI units, AGU, December 2007.

Pollock, D. B., R. O. Klepfer, S. Moultrie, Fixed Pattern Noise Correction, SI, CALCON 2007, September 13, 2007.

Pollock, D. B., Theodore E. Rogers, Robert O. Klepfer, Patrick J. Reardon, Christopher N. Underwood, Stephen K. Pitalo, Aerial video reconnaissance using large sensor arrays, SPIE Proceedings of the Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VI, Defense & Security Conference, SPIE Volume 6538, April, 2007.

Ohring, G. et al, Summary & Full Meeting Summary of the Workshop on Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change (ASIC3), AGU EOS Trans., March 13, 2007. Peer Reviewed.

Ohring, G. et al, Workshop on Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change (ASIC3), in publication by NOAA, 2007. Peer Reviewed.

Pi, Ying, P. J. Reardon, D. B. Pollock, Applying The Buchdahl Dispersion Model To Infrared Hybrid Refractive-Diffractive Achromats, SPIE Proc. 1345, 316-322, March 2006.

Pollock David B., A. Panfilov, I. Glazkova, T. Humpherys and V. Privalsky, V. Sapritsky, S. Morozova, B. Khlevnoy, R. U. Datla, V. Misnik and V. Sinelschikov, The Space Metrology Program, SPIE, Remote Sensing Europe, September 13 - 15, 2004, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites VIII, Vol. 5570, pp 301-306.

Pollock, D. B., T. C. Stone, H. H. Kieffer, J. P. Rice, Reducing the RObotic Lunar Observatory (ROLO) Irradiance Model Uncertainty SI, Proceedings of the CALCON 2004, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 23 - 26 August, 2004.

Traceable to SI Units, Pollock, D. B., T. L. Murdock, R. U. Datla, A, Thompson, Conference for Characterization and Calibration for Remote Sensing, September 2000, Utah State University, published International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol 24, Number 2, p225-236 (2003).

Pollock, D. B., N. P. Fox, R. V. Datla, T. L. Murdock, The Next Step is in Progress - 'TRUTHS' Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio- Studies, 2002 Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Utah State University, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah state University, Logan, UT, September 19-21, 2002.

Pollock, D. B., D. R. Haley, T. E. Strikwerda, Instrument Precision Pointing Experiences From the Midcourse Space Experiment, Military Sensing Symposia, Specialty Group on Missile Defense Sensors, Environments and Algorithms, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA January 30 - February 1, 2001.

D. B. Pollock, M. Baca, D. Bancroft, T. L. Murdock, A. V. Prokhorov, V. I. Sapritsky, A Calibration System Design and Analysis Toolkit, 2000 Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Utah State University, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah state University, Logan, UT, September 19-21, 2000.

T. L. Murdock, E.G. Layton, V. Pera, D. Pollock, R. Russell, J. Mill, A. Thurgood, A.J. Byrne, M. E. Calkins, M.W. Baca, D. P. Bancroft, Global Minimization the SPIRIT III Radiometer, 2000 Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, UT, September 19-21, 2000.

Pollock, D. B., T. L. Murdock, R. U. Datla, A, Thompson, Traceable to SI Units, Conference for Characterization and Calibration for Remote Sensing, September 2000, Utah State University, in publication, International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Pollock, D. B., T. L. Murdock, R. U. Datla, A. Thompson, Radiometric Standards in Space, The Next Step, presented at NEWRAD99, 7th International Conference on New Developments and Applications in Optical Radiometry, Departmento de Metrologia, Instituto de Fisica Aplicada (IFA), Consejo Superior de Investigancines CientRficas, Madrid, Spain, October 25-27, 1999; and published, International Journal of Pure and Applied Metrology, Metrologia, Vol 37, Number 5, p403-406, 2000.

Pollock, D. B. and A. Thompson, Remote Sensing Accuracy, Current State of the Art, a Technical Interchange with the National Physical Laboratories, London, England, June 1999.

Pollock, D. B., et. al., Rationalization of the Spirit III Calibrations Based upon Multiple Source Types, Eighth Annual Infrared Radiometric Sensor Calibration Symposium, Utah State University, September 22-24, 1998.

Burdick, S. V., T. L. Murdock, R. W. Russell, D. B. Pollock, MSX In-band Irradiances Using Stellar Source Functions, Eighth Annual Infrared Radiometric Sensor Calibration Symposium, Utah State University, September 22-24, 1998.

Pollock, D. B., Technology Transfer Metrology Standards, Midcourse Space Experiment Technical Interchange with the Defense Science, London, England, June 1999.

Mavrofrides, M. A., T. L. Murdock, D. B. Pollock, The Use of Emissive Reference Spheres For The On-orbit Calibration of SPIRIT III, Eighth Annual Infrared Radiometric Sensor Calibration Symposium, Utah State University, September 22-24, 1998.

Pollock, D. B., Certification of UVISI Results, Final Report to Ballistic Missile Defense Organization on Contract HQ0006-98-M-0004, August 24, 1998.

Extra Mural Support

NASA

Teledyne Solutions, Inc.

Frontier Technology, Inc.

Northrop Grumman

Links

National Institute of Standards and Technology: http://physics.nist.gov/Divisions/Div844/div844.html

Bureau International des Poids et Mesures: http://www.bipm.fr/