Patrick C. McGuire
Senior Research Fellow
Robert M. Walker Fellowship in Experimental Space Science
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1994
 I am working on the
CRISM hyperspectral imager on
the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter. The
MRO spacecraft has been orbiting Mars and has been sending us data
since early October 2006. CRISM is a step forward from the OMEGA hyperspectral
imager on Mars Express.
I am working on the DISORT radiative transport aspects for the CRISM
spectrometer, in order to get the best images/spectra of the rocks through
the Martian atmosphere. In particular, I have integrated a large software
package for the conversion of the measured radiance values for the 72
CRISM mulitspectral bands to Lambert albedo, correcting for atsmopheric,
thermal, and photoclinometric effects. Effectively, this software converts
the `raw' data to the `science' data for the CRISM instrument. The production
version of this software has been delivered to the CRISM team for integration
in the data pipeline.
I have also participated in the effort to find a safe
landing site for the Phoenix Mars Lander 2007. Data from MRO/HiRISE,
MRO/CRISM,
Mars-Odyssey/THEMIS, Mars-Global-Surveyor/MOC, and Viking Lander 2
are being integrated to find a 30km by 75km landing ellipse at
high latitudes
(65-72 deg N) which has low boulder abundances and low surface slopes.
The Phoenix lander, if successful, will dig through the martian soil
to analyze the structure and chemistry of the subsurface ice deposits
inferred from neutron measurements by the Gamma Ray Spectrometer on
Mars Odyssey.
I am also interested in working on using novelty-detection and
data-mining techniques and artificial intelligence image/spectral classifiers
for the CRISM data.
Selected
Publications
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314-935-4209
mcguire@wunder
314-935-7361 
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