Dryden X-Press April 3, 1998
Dryden X-Press April 3, 1998
Shelton (cont.)Prior to his appointment, Shelton served for one year as Assistant Division Director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA 's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., where he was in charge of the division's remote-sensing and applications program. That appointment followed a three-year assignment at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., during which he managed the Airborne Science Office for the Agency's Mission to Planet Earth program and assisted with that program's remote-sensing applications projects.
Before his Headquarters assignment, Shelton served as manager of the Science and Applications Aircraft Data Facility at Ames for 10 years and was responsible for management of the data facility and ER-2 aircraft programs.
Before joining NASA in 1984, Shelton was employed in similar management capacities with the EPA and Lockheed Corp. during a 13-year period. He supervised the remote-sensing techniques section for Lockheed under a NASA support contract and later managed an on-site support contract for Lockheed with the EPA. He then served for seven years as chief of the remote-sensing branch for environmental monitoring with the EPA in Las Vegas, Nev.
Shelton's expertise is in the field of multispectral photography and digital scanning as well as image enhancement, and he performed research in the latter field while employed as a physicist with International Imaging Systems in the early 1970s. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1958 through 1963, specializing in reconnaissance and photo mapping. He is a member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
The Airborne Science Program at Dryden, NASA's Center of Excellence for Atmospheric Flight Operations, currently employs two Lockheed ER-2 high-altitude science platform aircraft and one highly modified Douglas DC-8 flying laboratory. The aircraft are flown on scientific sampling and data-collection missions around the globe, flying a wide range of experiments related to Earth resources, celestial observations, electronic sensor development and related disciplines.
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