Dr. Bin Tan received his B.S. and M.S. from Peking University and his Ph.D. from Boston University majored in Remote Sensing. His Ph.D. research focused on impact of uncertainties on assessment and validation of MODIS LAI products. Dr Tan also maintained and developed MODIS landcover and phenology algorithm during his Post Doc at Boston University.
Dr. Tan started to support Code619 from 2007 and now he is a senior support scientist at Sigma Space Corp. Inc. He works on multiple projects including monitoring global urbanization, image navigation and registration evaluation for GOES-R, at launch sensor test evaluation for VIIRS, and upgrade geolocaiton operational algorithm for VIIRS.
Bin Tan
(Research Scientist)
| Email: | bin.tan@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.5965 |
| Org Code: | 619 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 619 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC |
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Senior Support Scientist
Sigma Space Corp. Inc. - NASA/GSFC
2013 - Present
Senior Research Scientist
Earth Resources Technology, Inc - NASA/GSFC
2007 - 2013
Visiting Scholar
Boston University - Boston University
2007 - Present
Research Associate
Boston University - Boston University
2005 - 2007
Education
Ph.D. in Geography, major in Remote Sensing, May 2005
Department of Geography, Boston University
M.S. in Geography, major in Remote Sensing and GIS, July 2001
Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing, China
B.S. in Geography, July 1998
Department of Urban Study and Environment Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
Department of Geography, Boston University
M.S. in Geography, major in Remote Sensing and GIS, July 2001
Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing, China
B.S. in Geography, July 1998
Department of Urban Study and Environment Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
Publications
Refereed
2023. "JPSS-2/NOAA-21 VIIRS early on-orbit geometric performance." Earth Observing Systems XXVIII [10.1117/12.2677378] [Proceedings]
2023. "Improving IPATS channel-to-channel registration assessment." Earth Observing Systems XXVIII [10.1117/12.2676847] [Proceedings]
2022. "A Demonstration of Three-Satellite Stereo Winds." Remote Sensing 14 (21): 5290 [10.3390/rs14215290] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Ten Years of VIIRS On-Orbit Geolocation Calibration and Performance." Remote Sensing 14 (17): 4212 [10.3390/rs14174212] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Integrated topographic corrections improve forest mapping using Landsat imagery." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 108 102716 [10.1016/j.jag.2022.102716] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Land-cover change in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987 based on the topographic correction of multi-temporal Landsat composites." Remote Sensing of Environment 248 111967 [10.1016/j.rse.2020.111967] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Seasonal Variation in the Measurement of GOES-16 ABI Channel-to-Channel Registration." IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 6405-6408 [10.1109/igarss39084.2020.9324127] [Proceedings]
2020. "SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS on-orbit geolocation trending and improvements." Earth Observing Systems XXV 11501 1150112 [10.1117/12.2569148] [Proceedings]
2020. "GOES-R series image navigation and registration performance assessment tool set." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 14 (03): 1 [10.1117/1.jrs.14.032405] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Thirty-six combined years of MODIS geolocation trending." Earth Observing Systems XXIV 11127 1112715 [10.1117/12.2529447] [Proceedings]
2019. "GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI INR assessment." Earth Observing Systems XXIV 11127 111271D [10.1117/12.2529336] [Proceedings]
2019. "Joint 3D-Wind Retrievals with Stereoscopic Views from MODIS and GOES." Remote Sensing 11 (18): 2100 [10.3390/rs11182100] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "JPSS-1/NOAA-20 VIIRS early on-orbit geometric performance." Earth Observing Systems XXIII (107641H ): 10 [10.1117/12.2320767] [Proceedings]
2018. "GOES-16 ABI navigation assessment." Earth Observing Systems XXIII (107640G): 12 [10.1117/12.2321170] [Proceedings]
2017. "Measurement of the Band-to-Band Registration of the SNPP VIIRS Imaging System From On-Orbit Data." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 10 (3): 1056-1067 [10.1109/jstars.2016.2601561] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010." Environmental Research Letters 10 (3): 034002 [10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Detecting change in urban areas at continental scales with MODIS data." Remote Sensing of Environment 158 331-347 [10.1016/j.rse.2014.09.023] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Interannual variations and trends in global land surface phenology derived from enhanced vegetation index during 1982–2010." International Journal of Biometeorology 58 (4): 547-564 [10.1007/s00484-014-0802-z] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Estimation of crop gross primary production (GPP): I. impact of MODIS observation footprint and impact of vegetation BRDF characteristics." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 191 51-63 [10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.02.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Toward near real-time monitoring of forest disturbance by fusion of MODIS and Landsat data." Remote Sensing of Environment 135 234-247 [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Regional distribution models with lack of proximate predictors: Africanized honeybees expanding north." Diversity and Distributions 20 (2): 193-201 [10.1111/ddi.12143] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Improved forest change detection with terrain illumination corrected Landsat images." Remote Sensing of Environment 136 469–483 [10.1016/j.rse.2013.05.013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "View angle effects on MODIS snow mapping in forests." Remote Sensing of Environment 118 50-59 [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Generating ground reference data for a global impervious surface survey." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International (5993-5996): 5993-5996 [10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352242] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges." International Journal of Digital Earth 5 (5): 373-397 [10.1080/17538947.2012.713190] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Improving MODIS land cover classification by combining MODIS spectral and angular signatures in a Canadian boreal forest." Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 37 1-20 [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "An Enhanced TIMESAT Algorithm for Estimating Vegetation Phenology Metrics From MODIS Data." IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing 4 (2): 361-371 [10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2075916] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Land surface phenology from MODIS: Characterization of the Collection 5 global land cover dynamics product." Remote Sensing of Environment 114 1805-1816 [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Normalizing Landsat and Aster Data Using MODIS Data Products for Forest Change Detection." Proceedings of IGARSS 3206-3209 [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets." Remote Sensing of Environment 114 168-182 [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Monitoring crop yield in USA using a satellite-based climate-variability Impact Index." 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 1815-1818 [10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650394] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Temporally smoothed and gap-filled MODIS land products for carbon modeling: application of the fPAR product." International Journal of Remote Sensing 30 (4): 1083-1090 [10.1080/01431160802398064] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests." PNAS 104 (12): 4820-4823 [10.1073/pnas.0611338104] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "The Importance of Measurement Error for Deriving Accurate Reference Leaf Area Index Maps for Validation of the MODIS LAI Product." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 44 (7): 1866-1871 [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "The Impact of Geolocation Offsets on the Local Spatial Properties of MODIS Data: Implications for Validation, Compositing, and band-to-band Registration." Remote Sensing of Environment 105 98-114 [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Validation of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Leaf Area Index Product in Croplands of Alpilles, France." Journal of Geophysical Research 110 [doi:10.1029/2004JD004860] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Assessment of the Broadleaf Crops Leaf Area Index Product from the Terra MODIS Instrument." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 135 124-134 [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Potential Monitoring of Crop Yield Using a Satellite-Based Climate-Variability Impact Index." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 132 344-358 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Climate Related Vegetation Characteristics Derived from MODIS LAI and NDVI." Journal of Geophysical Research 109 [doi:10.1029/2004JD004720] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2008. "Vegetation Phenology Metrics Derived from Temporally Smoothed and Gap-Filled MODIS Data." IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3 III-593 - III-596 [10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779417] [Proceedings]