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David Messinger
Research Interests

Image
  • Remote Sensing image exploitation
  • Gaseous effluent detection in LWIR hyperspectral imagery
  • Target detection in hyperspectral imagery

Assistant Research Professor
B.S. Physics (1991), Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
Ph.D. Physics (1998), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Location: 76-3128
Office: (585) 475-4538
Fax: (585) 475-5988

54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
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Last Updated ( Friday, 30 March 2007 )

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Sinisgalli, N.M. Detection of gaseous effluents from airborne LWIR hyperspectral imagery using physics-based signatures International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems (IJHSES), Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 801-812 (2007)
  • Foster, M.; Schott, J.; Messinger, D. Spin-Image Target Detection Algorithm Applied to Low Density 3D Point Clouds Submitted to the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Nov. (2007)
  • Messinger, D.W.; Basener, B.; Ientilucci, E.I. Topologically-based Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery Submitted to the IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Rem. Sens. (2007)
  • West, J.; Messinger, D.W.; Schott, J. A Comparative Evaluation of Background Characterization Techniques for Hyperspectral Unstructured Matched Filter Target Detection Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol 1, 013520, 13 July (2007)
  • Salvaggio, C.; Boonmee, M.; Sinisgalli, N.; Messinger, D.W. Three-band temperature extraction from airborne imagery with imprecise atmospheric knowledge Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D13107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006770 (2006)
  • Messinger, D.W.; Whittet, D.C.B.; Roberge, W.G. Interstellar Polarization in the Taurus Dark Clouds: Wavelength Dependent Position Angles and Cloud Structure Near TMC - 1 D.W. Messinger, D.C.B. Whittet, & W.G. Roberge. Astrophysical Journal, 1997, vol 487, p. 314 (1997)
  • Hough, J.H.; Chrysotomou, Messinger, D.W.; Aitken, D.K.; Roche, P.F. Moderate Resolution Spectropolarimety of the 3 µm Ice Band Toward the BN Ob ject Astrophysical Journal, vol 461, p. 902 (1996)
  • Roberge, W.G.; Hanany, S.; Messinger, D.W. Grain Alignment by Ambipolar Diffusion in Molecular Clouds Astrophysical Journal, vol 453, p. 238 (1995)
  • Conference Proceedings

  • Montanaro,M.; Salvaggio, C.; Messinger, D.W.; Brown, S.D.; Garrett, A.J. Apparent temperature dependence on localized atmospheric water vapor Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XIV, Vol. 6966 (2008)
  • Montanaro, M.; Salvaggio, C.; Brown, S.D.; Messinger, D.W.; Goodenough, A.A.; Garrett, A.J.; Villa-Aleman, E. Radiometric modeling of cavernous targets to assist in the determination of absolute temperature for input to process models Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XIII, Vol. 5806, 656511, doi: 10.1117/12.718666 (2007)
  • Zhang, H.; Messinger, D.; Montag, E. Perceptual display strategies of hyperspectral imagery based on PCA and ICA. Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XII, Proceedings of SPIE vol. 6233, April 17-21, Orlando, FL. (2006)
  • Williams, D.J.; Wadsworth, W.; Salvaggio, C.; Messinger, D.W. A hybrid thermal video and FTIR spectrometer system for rapidly locating and characterizing gas leaks Proceeding of the SPIE, Remote Sensing of Aerosol and Chemical Gases, Model Simulation, Assimilation, and Applications to Air Quality, Vol. 6299, 62990O, San Diego, CA, August (2006)
  • Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Sinisgalli, N.M. Detection of gaseous effluents from airborne LWIR hyperspectral imagery using physics-based signatures Electronic Proceedings to 2006 International Symposium of Spectral Sensing Research (ISSSR), Frontier Sensing and Monitoring, Novel Hyperspectral Sensors and Algorithms, Bar Harbor, ME, June (2006)
  • Grimm, David C.; Messinger, David W.; Kerekes, John P.; Schott; John R. Hybridization of hyperspectral imaging target detection algorithm chains Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5806, p. 753-763, Orlando, March (2005)
  • O'Donnell, E.M.; Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Schott, J.R. The invariant algorithm for identification and detection of multiple gas plumes and weak releases Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery X, Vol. 5806, pp. 206-217, Orlando, FL, April (2005)
  • Pogorzala, D.; Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Schott, J.R. Gas plume species identification in overhead LWIR imagery using constrained stepwise regression analyses Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery X, Vol. 5806, pp. 194-205, Orlando, FL, April (2005)
  • West, J.E., Messinger, D.W., Ientilucci, E.J., Kerekes, J.P., Schott, J.R. Matched filter stochastic background characterization for hyperspectral target detection Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5806, p. 1-12, Orlando, March (2005)
  • Raqueno, N.G.; Smith, L.E.; Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Raqueno, R.V.; Schott, J.R. Megacollect 2004: Hyperspectral collection experiment of terrestrial targets and backgrounds of the RIT Megascene and surrounding area (Rochester, New York) Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery X, Vol. 5806, Orlando, FL, April (2005)
  • O'Donnell, E. M.; Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Schott, J.R Identification and detection of gaseous effluents from hyperspectral imagery using invariant algorithms Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery X, Vol. 5425, pp. 573-582, Orlando, FL, April (2004)
  • Pogorzala, D.R.; Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Schott, J.R Gas plume species identification by regression analyses Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery X, Vol. 5425, pp. 583-591, Orlando, FL, April (2004)
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