John Kerekes is an expert in the general areas of Earth observation and remote sensing. He has worked on the design, modeling, and analysis of satellite and airborne remote sensing systems for weather monitoring, land cover classification, and small object detection applications. He is particularly knowledgeable about the emerging field of hyperspectral imaging.

After a 15-year career at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory performing research on environmental and military remote sensing technologies, Dr. Kerekes came to RIT's Center for Imaging Science in the summer of 2004. He is currently conducting research in his areas of interest and teaching courses in Pattern Recognition and Synthetic Aperture Radar. He has participated in Air Force Science Advisory Board, NASA, NSF, NOAA, and DARPA review panels and advisory boards. He is currently active as a journal associate editor, conference organizer, and reviewer in remote sensing technology.

Dr. Kerekes received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1983), M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1986), and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1989), all from Purdue University.

Michael Richardson is an expert in systems engineering related to the definition and development of satellite and airborne remote sensing systems a field in which he has more than 20 years experience.

He has specific experience in the definition and development of advanced remote sensing systems and an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of remote sensing technology.

He is the project manager for the NASA-funded FIRES program, a research and development program focused on advances in the detection and monitoring of wildfires.

Richardson is also the project manager for development of new hyperspectral processing algorithms, a research and development program focused on the development of novel processing techniques for hyperspectral data sets.

Richardson earned his bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Clarkson University (1981).

John Schott specializes in remote sensing of the earth from aircraft and spacecraft. He heads the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing group at RIT. His particular expertise is in the areas of hyperspectral and thermal infrared sensing and synthetic scene simulation and modeling.

Schott has published more than 100 technical publications in the field of remote sensing and wrote the textbook, Remote Sensing: The Image Chain Approach, Oxford University Press (1997).

He is the principle investigator on a wide range of programs for the civil and defense / intelligence community. His research work focuses on developing new remote sensing techniques and applying techniques to solve customer problems.

Schott received his bachelor's in physics and sociology from Canisius College and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Anthony Vodacek is an expert in optical sensing of the earth environment. He has expertise in environmental applications of remote sensing, aquatic optics, remote sensing of water quality and water depth, remote detection and monitoring of fire, the use of lasers for remote sensing of the environment and hyperspectral imaging.

Vodacek has authored more than 19 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is the principal investigator for over million in externally funded research grants and is an instructor and advisor at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1981) and his master's (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) in environmental engineering from Cornell University.