Capabilities and Expertise:
- Computer Code Development for Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing -- SSI scientists are authors of widely recognized US DoD computer codes for modeling atmospheric and space environments at infrared, visible, and ultraviolet wavelengths. SSI is actively involved in the development of algorithms and software for the removal of atmospheric effects from remote spectral imagery of the Earth's surface, with codes such as FLAASH. SSI also has developed software for simulating radiometrically accurate hyperspectral scenes to test sensor designs and retrieval algorithms.
- Aerospace Phenomenology -- SSI scientists are leading experts in modeling optical signatures from aircraft, rockets, and non-equilibrium sources such as plumes, vapor clouds, chemical releases, and the high-altitude atmosphere. SSI's research includes first-principles quantum-mechanical and classical dynamics calculations of chemical reaction and energy transfer rates. In addition, SSI has played major roles in both planning and data analysis for optical measurement programs conducted by DoD and NASA.
- Instruments for Gas Sensing -- With the help of US Government SBIR program awards, SSI has developed new optical sensing technologies and gained experience in building custom ground- and aircraft-based instruments for sensing gaseous species including water vapor, hydrogen, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, carbon monoxide, oxygen, nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, and hydrazine. SSI has licensed its patented technologies for gas sensing in commercial applications.
- Reconstruction Techniques for Biomedical and Remote Sensing Applications -- SSI has developed new software and experimental techniques for gamma ray and electron radiotherapy planning and breast cancer imaging, and has developed tomographic techniques for a variety of applications including combustion flows and remote targets.