Russ Laher's Personal Web Page
Image by Josh Laher
- Qualifications
- Orbiting Spacecraft Mission Planning
- Infrared Image Data Processing and Analysis
- Proposal and Grant Development (Several Successes: Small
Satellite for LEO Atomic Oxygen Materials Erosion; Modeling
Thermospheric Dynamics; Target Tracking in Nuclear-Clutter
Backgrounds; Compact DSP-Based Signal-Noise-Removal Hardware
Implementation)
- Algorithm Design (Image Processing, Kalman Filtering, Artificial
Neural Networks, Navier-Stokes Fluid Dynamics,
Synthetic-Aperture Radar Processing and Focusing,
Fourier-Transform Analysis)
- Computer and Web Programming (FORTRAN, C, Perl, Basic, Assembly,
CGI, SSI, HTML, Java, Javascript)
- Hardware Development (Autonomous Data Acquisition and Control
Systems, Space Shuttle GAS Payloads, Transparent Laboratory
Furnaces, DSP-Based Voice-Verification System)
- Website Development:
- Experience
- Space Infrared Telescope Facility IRAC Data-Processing
Cognizant Engineer
- Wide-Field Infrared Explorer Science Operations and Data
Analysis Engineer
- Air Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Research (Synthetic Spectra
Generation Software, Spectroscopic Constant Determination)
- Reduction and Analysis of Spacelab 1 Optical Spectra
- Thermospheric and Ionospheric Dynamics Modeling Research
- Synthetic Aperture Radar Modeling (Strip-Map and Spotlight
Mode Simulation Software)
- Target Detection and Tracking Research (Noise-Removal Software
for Weak Targets, High Clutter)
- Principal Investigator, NASA Get Away Special Program
(Designed and Built Autonomous Thermal-Conductivity Payload
for STS-4)
- Principal Investigator, NASA Get Away Special Program
(Designed and Built Autonomous Marongoni-Convection Experiment
Payload for Space Shuttle Flight)
- Principal Investigator, NASA Get Away Special Program
(Designed and Built Autonomous Payload for Space-Manufacturing
Research)
- Payload Engineer, NASA Get Away Special Program
(Redesigned and Implemented Autonomous Brine-Shrimp,
Marongoni-Convection, and GAS-Canister-Thermal-Study Payload
for STS-42)
- Dissertation Title: Ablation of Materials in the Low-Earth
Orbiting Environment
- Education
- B.S. Physics, Utah State University, 1984
- Ph.D. Physics, Utah State University, 1987
Last revised: March 10, 2000
Software developer: Russ Laher (laher@ipac.caltech.edu)
URL: http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/laher/personal3.html