David Thompson

David R. Thompson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. His work advances the theory and practice of imaging spectroscopy for remote sensing. David achieved the first detection of a facility-scale methane superemitter from orbit [@thompson2016aliso]. He is currently the Instrument Scientist for NASA’s EMIT imaging spectrometer mission, responsible for performance assessment, radiometric calibration, and spectral calibration. In this role, he also spearheaded a demonstration of the first active on-orbit FPA alignment, achieving positional adjustments with sub-micron precision [@thompson2024emit]. David pioneered the use of optimal estimation algorithms for atmosphere/surface estimation by broadband visible-shortwave imaging spectrometers [@thompson2018optimal], a technique which is now considered state of the art, and is used operationally by EMIT. [@htdfdf]