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Author: Getting Started with UAV Imaging Systems: A Radiometric Guide (SPIE Press, 2016)

SPIE Senior Member and UC-Irvine Distinguished Instructor Barbara G. Grant received the M. S. in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1989, where she did her graduate research work in remote sensing imager calibration in the Remote Sensing Group. This included spaceborne imagers such as the Landsat Thematic Mapper, SPOT HRV, and the NOAA AVHRR.

After graduation, she worked at Lockheed-Martin in Sunnyvale, CA, in areas including infrared radiometric calibration, and for NASA-Goddard Spaceflight Center on the radiometric calibration of the MODIS instrument and in the integration and test phase of the GOES-8 and -9 weather satellite imager and sounder for which she received two NASA awards. She began her consultancy in 1995 and has since pursued many commercial electro-optics applications, with primary focus on measurement, calibration, and data analysis.

 Her previous books are The Art of Radiometry (with Jim Palmer) and Field Guide to Radiometry. She teaches through the UC-Irvine certificate program in Optical Engineering and Optical Instrument Design, through Georgia Tech Professional Education, at meetings of SPIE, and for government and industrial clients. In 2016 she formed Grant Solutions, LLC, to take the concepts in her latest book into the emerging UAV marketplace.