Taeyoung Choi received a B.S. degree from Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1999; an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA, in 2002; and a Ph.D. from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, in 2018. He is currently working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) through a contracting company, where he specializes in radiometric calibrations for Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-20 (NOAA-20), and NOAA-21 Visible Infrared-Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments using Solar Diffuser (SD) and moon observations. Before his role at NOAA, he contributed to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s MODIS Characterization Support Team (MCST), focusing on on-orbit radiometric calibrations for Terra and Aqua. Since 1999, he has had extensive experience in Landsat radiometric, geometric, and spatial calibrations, working with various sensors, such as IKONOS, QuickBird, ALI, Hyperion, TM, and ETM+.
