RIT Center for Imaging Science

09/24/2026

The Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Auditorium has had some work done!! 💉🏥💉

If you haven’t seen the new space yet, make sure you check it out during our next CIS Seminar, 9/30 at 3pm!

09/21/2026

The Laser Institute (LIA) has officially announced Dr. Jie Qiao's election as a Fellow of LIA, the Institute’s highest grade of membership!!

Congratulations Dr. Jie Qiao!

https://www.lia.org/news-and-press/newsroom/2026-09-17/prof-jie-qiao-elected-fellow-laser-institute

09/15/2026

Rehman Eon and Aaron Gerace (Imaging Science research faculty) have received a $2.2 million NASA award to continue RIT’s and NASA's decades-long partnership with the Landsat program! This is a "NASA/USGS program that began in 1972 and provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence."

"Landsat 10 will continue the program’s legacy of observing, managing, and adapting to Earth’s changing surface. The mission helps scientists study water quality and aquatic health assessments; crop productions and soil conservation; forest management and monitoring; climate and snow dynamics research; and mineral mapping based on thermal emissivity."

Congratulations Eon and Aaron!!!

RIT receives a $2.2 million NASA award to extend its collaboration with the Landsat satellite program to prepare Landsat 10.

09/11/2026

In case you missed it, Dr. Emmett Ientilucci, PhD (Gerald W. Harris Professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science) was recently named a senior member of Optica! A well deserved accreditation for his contribution to optics, imaging science, and remote sensing, and his professional involvement in all things imaging.

09/02/2026

The Industrial Associates (IA) event week is fast approaching! The registration is open, come join us on November 4-6, as we bring together scholars, faculty, staff, and industry partners.

What happens at the IA symposium?

✅ Student research showcase
✅Program updates
✅Faculty research presentation
✅Student poster session
✅Company introduction
✅Company table session
✅Student interviews
✅Research Happy Hour

View the Fall 2026 RIT Industrial Associates Event Week itinerary, including symposium sessions, networking, lab tours, student presentations, interviews, and member events.

08/25/2026

🌞🌏NASA sure was good to Imaging Science this year. Leiani (Imaging Science undergrad) spent her summer in Pasadena, CA working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Her project focused on modernizing and expanding the capabilities of the MISR INteractive eXplorer (MINX).

📸📸 MISR is a SpectroRadiometer that views Earth from 9 different cameras, allowing for scientists to determine things like smoke plume heights, wildfire activity, and aerosol properties. She was focused on converting the existing MINX software from IDL to Python and developing a more modular framework that has the capability to support additional products and data.
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08/19/2026

Our new Tigers are here!!! Welcome the incoming RIT Imaging Science freshman class. The campus is alive again! 🐅🐾

08/12/2026

🐯 It's an RIT Center for Imaging Science takeover at !! Between students, staff and faculty, The Center for Imaging Science is giving 17 different talks, posters, and events.

🔗 Here's the link the the technical program: https://2026.ieeeigarss.org/technical_program.php

📜 Here's what's coming up:

📜 Wednesday:
*Using Hyperspectral Imagery to Map Marine Invertebrate Populations in Coastal Salt Marsh Ecosystems from Retrieved Estimates of Geophysical and Biophysical Parameters, Charles Bachmann

*Operational Hyperspectral Imaging from Space: Translating Science into Actionable Intelligence, moderated by Emmett Ientilucci

*Simulating Spectral-spatial Trade-offs in Biodiversity mapping Using DIRSIG Hyperspectral Imagery

*Sub-pixel Activity Monitoring in Landsat via Temporal Spectral Complexity


📜 Thursday:
*Uncertainty-aware Radar Pulse Segmentation via Bayesian 1D U-NET, Yassine Barhoumi

*Beyond Thermal Detection: Vision -based Detection of Gas Flares in High-resolution Satellite Images, Oluwasegun Omobolanle

*Overview of the ROCX 2025 Open Community Remote Sensing Data Collection, John Kerekes

*Toward UAV-based Hyperspectral Detection of Surface PFM-1 Mines: Insights from the ROCX 2025 Campaign, Sagar Lekhak

*Time Series Analysis of Vegetation Fire Risk Indicators Using EMIT Hyperspectral Observations, Nayma Binte Nur


📜 Friday:
*Chromatic Aberration Correction of Wide-angle Hyperspectral Camera, Zach Mulhollan

*Wetland Delineation from Hyperspectral Imagery Using Hybrid Radiative Transfer and Statistical Models, Charles Bachmann

08/10/2026

It’s been a great start to IGARSS 2026! If you’re in the area, stop by to visit RIT Imaging Science!

08/05/2026

Alex Gregor (Imaging Science undergrad student) was featured for his internship with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration! Alex has been working as an Orion optical navigation software and hardware development intern at NASA’s Johnson Space Center this summer.

He's been spending the summer analyzing and calibrating cameras for the optical navigation system used on Orion and other spacecraft in the JSC’s Electro Optics Lab.

This ultimately helps ensure spacecraft are being tracked accurately by ground equipment and can also serve as a backup system, leading astronauts home automatically in the event of a loss of communication with Earth.

Go Alex!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbqPt3oD8Gu/?hl=en