Alexander F. H. Goetz
Professor of Geological Sciences
Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Director, Center for
the Study of Earth from Space
BS, Physics, 1961, California Institute of Technology
MS, Geophysics, 1962, California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Planetary Sciences, 1967, California Institute of Technology.
Research Interests:
Development of techniques and application of remote sensing to problems in the earth
sciences ranging from mineral and petroleum exploration to ecology.
Current Research Projects Automated extraction and analysis of
spectral features from imaging spectrometer data; remote sensing of canopy chemistry and
nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems.
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Courses Offered:
- 1010 Physical Geology
- 4093/5093 Remote Sensing of Environment
- 5240 Remote Sensing Image Analysis
- 5700 Remote Sensing Field Methods
Recent Publications:
- Goetz, A.F.H., B. Kindel and J.W. Boardman, Subpixel target detection
in HYDICE data from Cuprite, Nevada, Proceedings SPIE Annual Meeting, 2819, 7-14, 1996.
Goetz, A.F.H. and K.B. Heidebrecht, Full-scene, sub-nanometer HYDICE wavelength
calibration, Proceedings SPIE Annual Meeting, 2821, 85-92, 1996.
Goetz, A.F.H and B. Curtiss, Hyperspectral imaging of the Earth: Remote analytical
chemistry in an uncontrolled environment, Field Analytical Chemistry and Technology, 1,
67-76, 1996.
Goetz, A.F.H., J.W. Boardman, B. Kindel and K.B. Heidebrecht, Atmospheric corrections: On
deriving surface reflectance from hyperspectral imagers, Proceedings SPIE Annual Meeting,
3118, 14-22, 1997.
Chabrillat, S., A.F.H. Goetz, H.W. Olsen and D.C. Noe, Field spectrometry techniques for
identification of expansive clay soils, Proc. Twelfth International Conference and
Workshops on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Denver, Colorado, November 17-19, 1997.
- Goetz, A.F.H., B. Kindel and P. Pilewskie, Issues in absolute
spectral radiometric calibration: intercomparison of eight sources, Proc. 7th Annual JPL
Airborne Earth Science Workshop, Pasadena, CA, January 13, 1998.
- Goetz, A.F.H., K.B. Heidebrecht, B. Kindel and J.W. Boardman, Using
ground spectral irradiance for model correction of AVIRIS data, Proc. 7th Annual JPL
Airborne Earth Science Workshop, Pasadena, CA, January 13, 1998.
- Pilewski, P., A.F.H. Goetz, D.A. Beale, R.W. Bergstrom and P.
Mariani, Observations of the spectral distribution of solar irradiance at the ground
during SUCCESS, published in Geophys. Res. Letters, vol. 25, no. 8, pp 1141-1144, April
15, 1998.
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