Jean-Philippe Combe, Ph.D.        Research Scientist Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy The Bear Fight Center       Contact       Jean-Philippe Combe       22 Fiddler’s Road       P.O. Box 667       Winthrop, WA 98862        jean-philippe_combe @ bearfightcenter.com       Research Activities Surface composition and roughness of telluric planets and satellites of the solar system Spectral and image analysis of spaceborne, airborne, laboratory and ground measurements       Current Emphases Mapping of mineralogical surface composition and geology of Mars with Mars-Express OMEGA and HRSC spectral data Surface composition and atmopsheric spectrophotometric properties of Titan with the Cassini VIMS imaging spectrometer Mineralogy of the Moon with Clementine UVVIS and NIR multispectral images Identification of hydrated salts on Europa with the Galileo NIMS imaging spectrometer

Articles in Reviewed Professional Journals

Williams D. A., Greeley R., Fergason R. L., Kuzmin R., McCord T. B., Combe J.-Ph., Xiao L., Manfretti L., Pinet P., Baratoux D., Plaut J. J., Raitala J., Neukum G., and the HRSC Co-Investigator Team, The Circum-Hellas Volcanic Province, Mars: Overview, Planetary and Space Science, Mars Express Special Issue, 2008, accepted.

Combe J.-Ph. and McCord T. B., Investigation of the Mars Express HRSC Color Channel Calibration, Advances in Space Research, 2008, in press.

McCord T. B., Hayne P. G., Combe J.-Ph., Hansen G. B., CO₂ on Titan’s Surface from the Cassini VIMS investigation, Geophysical Research Letters, 2008, under review

Massé M., Le Mouélic S., Bourgeois O., Combe J.-Ph., Le Deit L., Sotin C., Bibring J.-P., Gondet B., Langevin Y., and the OMEGA Science team Mineralogical composition, structure, morphology and geological history of Aram Chaos crater fill on Mars derived from OMEGA Mars Express data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2008, accepted.

Combe J.-Ph., Le Mouélic S., Sotin C., Gendrin A., Mustard J. F., Le Deit L., Launeau P., Bibring J.-P., Gondet B., Langevin Y., Pinet P., and the OMEGA Science team, Analysis of OMEGA / Mars Express data hyperspectral data using a Multiple-Endmember Linear Spectral Unmixing Model (MELSUM): Methodology and first results, Planetary and Space Science, 2008, vol 56/7, 951-975, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.12.007.

Le Deit L., Le Mouélic S., Mège D., Bourgeois O., Combe J.-Ph., Sotin C., Gendrin A., Hauber E., Mangold N. and Bibring J.-P., Ferric oxides in East Candor Chasma, Valles Marineris (Mars) inferred from analysis of OMEGA/Mars Express data: identification and geological settings, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2008, Volume 113, Issue E7, doi: 10.1029/2007JE002950.

McCord T. B., Hayne P. G., Combe J.-Ph., Hansen G. B., Barnes J. W., Rodriguez S., Le Mouélic S., Baines K. H., Buratti B. J., Sotin C., Nicholson Ph., Jaumann R., Nelson R., and the Cassini VIMS Team, Titan’s Surface: Search for spectral diversity and composition using the Cassini VIMS investigation, Icarus, 2008, Volume 194, 212-242, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.08.039.

Barillé L., Méléder V., Combe J.-Ph., Launeau P., Rincé Y., Carrère V. and Morançais M., Comparative analysis of field and laboratory spectral reflectances of benthic diatoms with a modified Gaussian model approach, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Volume 343, Issue 2, 2007.

McCord T. B., Adams J. B., Bellucci G., Combe J.-Ph., Gillespie A. R., Hansen G., Hoffmann H., Jaumann R., Neukum G., Pinet P., Poulet F., and Stephan K., Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera spectrophotometric data: Characteristics and science analysis, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, 2007.

Combe J.-Ph., Launeau P., Pinet P., Despan D., Harris E., Ceuleneer G., Sotin C., Mapping of an ophiolite complex by high-resolution visible-infrared spectrometry, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Volume 7, Issue 8, 2006.

Combe J.-Ph., Launeau P., Carrère V., Despan D., Méléder V., Barillé L. and Sotin C., Mapping microphytobenthos biomass by non-linear inversion of visible-infrared hyperspectral images, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 98, Issue 4, 2005.