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R Glenn Sellar
Senior Optical Engineer

Currently working on Multispectral Microscopic Imager (MMI). The MMI will advance the technology of microscopic imagers for planetary landers and rovers by adding spectrometric capabilities, through terrestrial field demonstrations of a rugged portable instrument in 2007.
Education
  • Ph.D. in Optics, 2003; University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
  • M.S. in Space Sciences, 1993; Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
  • B.Eng. in Engineering Physics, 1986; McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Research Interests
  • Imaging spectrometers
  • Micro-imagers
  • Cameras
  • Optical spectrometers
  • Radiometric modeling
Projects

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
The Mars Science Laboratory mission's Curiosity rover, the most technologically advanced rover ever built, landed in Mars' Gale Crater the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT) using a series of complicated landing maneuvers never before attempted

Moon Minerology Mapper (M3) (Chandrayaan-1)
M3 is a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer that will provide the first map of the entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolution, revealing the minerals of which it is made.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
    • Senior Optical Engineer (2004 - present)
    • Cognizant Engineer for the Optical Subsystem of the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)
  • University of Central Florida, Research Scientist (1996-2004)
  • Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Research Engineer (1993-1995)
  • York University, Institute for Space and Terrestrial Sciences, Instrumentation Engineer (1991)
  • AIT Corporation, Optical Engineer (1990)
  • CAL Corporation Optical Engineer (1987-1990)
Selected Awards
  • JPL Ranger Award for engineering on the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)
Selected Publications
  1. P. Mouroulis, R. G. Sellar, D. W. Wilson, J. J. Shea, and R. O. Green, "Optical design of a compact imaging spectrometer for planetary mineralogy," Opt. Eng. 46, 063001 (2007).
  2. R. G. Sellar, J. D. Farmer, A. Kieta and J, Huang, "Multispectral Microimager for Astrobiology," Proc. SPIE 6309, 63090E (2006).
  3. P. J. Minnett and R. G. Sellar, "The High Efficiency Hyperspectral Imager—a new instrument for measurements of the Arctic surface," American Meteorological Society 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography P1.3 (2005).
  4. R. G. Sellar and G. D. Boreman, "Comparison of relative signal-to-noise ratios of different classes of imaging spectrometers," Appl. Opt. 44, 1614-1624 (2005).
  5. R. G. Sellar and G. D. Boreman, "Classification of imaging spectrometers for remote sensing applications," Opt. Eng. 44, 013602 (2005).
  6. R. G. Sellar and G. D. Boreman, "Limiting aspect ratios of Sagnac interferometers," Opt. Eng. 42, 3320-3325 (2003).
  7. W. A. Gault, S. Brown, A. Moise, D. Liang, R. G. Sellar, G. G. Shepard, and J. Wimperis, "ERWIN: An E-Region Wind Interferometer," Appl. Opt. 35, 2913-2922 (1996).
  8. J. B. Rafert and R. G. Sellar, "Monolithic Fourier transform imaging spectrometer," Appl. Opt. 34, 7228-7230 (1995).
  9. R. G. Sellar and J. B. Rafert, "Fourier transform imaging spectrometer with a single toroidal optic," Appl. Opt. 34, 2931-2933 (1995).
  10. R. G. Sellar and J. B. Rafert, "The effects of aberrations on spatially modulated Fourier transform spectrometers," Opt. Eng. 33, 3087-3092 (1994).

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