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Overview

Simon J. Hook is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research intersects key areas of environmental science and engineering, with a focus on topics related to urban heat island mitigation and calibration techniques for environmental measurements.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

They delve into several subfields of study, notably:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Building and Construction

The primary topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Calibration and Measurement Techniques
  • Climate Change and Permafrost
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis

They have published extensively in various academic journals, with significant distributions in:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Water Resources Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Simon J. Hook's notable recent papers include:

  • "Validation and Quality Assessment of the ECOSTRESS Level-2 Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Product" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "First Comparisons of Surface Temperature Estimations between ECOSTRESS, ASTER and Landsat 8 over Italian Volcanic and Geothermal Areas" (2020) published in Remote Sensing
  • "Intercomparison of In Situ Sensors for Ground-Based Land Surface Temperature Measurements" (2020) published in Sensors
  • "Continental-scale evaluation of three ECOSTRESS land surface temperature products over Europe and Africa: Temperature-based validation and cross-satellite comparison" (2022) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station" (2020) published in Water Resources Research

Their frequent collaborators include Glynn Hulley, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Gerardo Rivera, Mary Langsdale, and Martin J. Wooster.

Best Publications

  • The ASTER spectral library version 2.0

    A.M. Baldridge;S.J. Hook;C.I. Grove;G. Rivera

  • A temperature and emissivity separation algorithm for Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images

    A. Gillespie;S. Rokugawa;T. Matsunaga;J.S. Cothern

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

  • Space observations of inland water bodies show rapid surface warming since 1985

    Philipp Schneider;Simon J. Hook

  • Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) Vicarious Radiometric Calibration

    Julia A. Barsi;John R. Schott;Simon J. Hook;Nina G. Raqueno

  • Validation of a web-based atmospheric correction tool for single thermal band instruments

    Julia A. Barsi;John R. Schott;Frank D. Palluconi;Simon J. Hook

  • Airborne methane remote measurements reveal heavy-tail flux distribution in Four Corners region

    Christian Frankenberg;Andrew K. Thorpe;David R. Thompson;Glynn Hulley

  • The ECOSTRESS spectral library version 1.0

    Susan K. Meerdink;Simon J. Hook;Dar A. Roberts;Elsa A. Abbott

  • Separating temperature and emissivity in thermal infrared multispectral scanner data: implications for recovering land surface temperatures

    P.S. Kealy;S.J. Hook

  • A comparison of techniques for extracting emissivity information from thermal infrared data for geologic studies

    Simon J. Hook;A. R. Gabell;A. A. Green;P. S. Kealy

  • Mapping Hydrothermally Altered Rocks at Cuprite, Nevada, Using the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), a New Satellite-Imaging System

    Lawrence C. Rowan;Simon J. Hook;Michael J. Abrams;John C. Mars

  • An introduction to the NASA Hyperspectral InfraRed Imager (HyspIRI) mission and preparatory activities

    Christine M. Lee;Morgan L. Cable;Simon J. Hook;Robert O. Green

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • Constraints on the origin and evolution of the layered mound in Gale Crater, Mars using Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data

    B.J. Thomson;N.T. Bridges;R. Milliken;A. Baldridge

  • The MODIS/ASTER airborne simulator (MASTER) - a new instrument for earth science studies

    Simon J Hook;Jeffrey J Myers;Kurtis J Thome;Michael Fitzgerald

  • An Operational Land Surface Temperature Product for Landsat Thermal Data: Methodology and Validation

    Nabin K. Malakar;Glynn C. Hulley;Simon J. Hook;Kelly Laraby

  • The ASTER Global Emissivity Dataset (ASTER GED): Mapping Earth's emissivity at 100 meter spatial scale

    Glynn C. Hulley;Simon J. Hook;Elsa Abbott;Nabin Malakar

  • Synergies between VSWIR and TIR data for the urban environment: An evaluation of the potential for the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) Decadal Survey mission

    Dar A. Roberts;Dale A. Quattrochi;Glynn C. Hulley;Simon J. Hook

  • Generating Consistent Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Products Between ASTER and MODIS Data for Earth Science Research

    Glynn C Hulley;Simon J Hook

  • Separating Temperature and Emissivity in Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner Data: Implications

    Peter S. Kealy;Simon J. Hook

Frequent Co-Authors

Glynn C. Hulley
Glynn C. Hulley California Institute of Technology
John D. Lenters
John D. Lenters University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nathan T. Bridges
Nathan T. Bridges Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Brian L. Markham
Brian L. Markham Goddard Space Flight Center
Sander Veraverbeke
Sander Veraverbeke Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Peter B. McIntyre
Peter B. McIntyre Cornell University
Sarath D. Gunapala
Sarath D. Gunapala California Institute of Technology
Jordan S. Read
Jordan S. Read United States Geological Survey

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