Jean-Philippe Combe, Ph.D.        Research Scientist Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Bear Fight Institute       Contact       Jean-Philippe Combe       22 Fiddler’s Road       P.O. Box 667       Winthrop, WA 98862              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

Combe J.-Ph., Wendt L., Loizeau D., McCord T.B., Neukum G., Mapping Mars surface color units with HRSC: Various examples and methods, from visual interpretation to spectral analysis, 2011, in revision, Planetary and Space Science, Special issue Geological Mapping of Mars.

Cheek, L. C.; Pieters, C. M.; Boardman, J. W.; Clark, R. N.; Combe, J.-Ph.; Head, J. W.; Isaacson, P. J.; McCord, T. B.; Moriarty, D.; Nettles, J. W.; Petro, N. E.; Sunshine, J. M.; Taylor, L. A., 2010, Goldschmidt crater and the Moon's north polar region: Results from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M³), J. Geophys. Res., Volume 116, doi: 10.1029/2010JE003702..

Kramer, G., J.-Ph. Combe, E. M. Harnett, B. R. Hawke, S. K. Noble, D. T. Blewett, T. McCord, and T. A. Giguere, 2011, Characterization of lunar swirls at Mare Ingenii: A model for space weathering at magnetic anomalies, J. Geophys. Res., No. 116, doi:10.1029/2010JE003669..

Kramer, G., S. Besse, J. Nettles, J.-Ph. Combe, R. N. Clark, C. M. Pieters, M. I. Staid, E. Malaret, J. W. Boardman, R. O. Green, J. W. Head III, and T. McCord, 2011, Newer Views of the Moon: Comparing Spectra from Clementine and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, J. Geophys. Res., No. 116, doi:10.1029/2010JE003728..

McCord, T., L. A. Taylor, J.-Ph. Combe, G. Kramer, C. M. Pieters, J. M. Sunshine, and R. N. Clark, 2011, Sources and physical processes responsible for OH/H₂O in the lunar soil as revealed by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M³), J. Geophys. Res., No. 116, doi:10.1029/2010JE003711..

Wendt, L.; Gross, C.; Kneissl, Th.; Sowe, M.; Combe, J.-Ph.; Ledeit, L.; McGuire, P. C.; Neukum, G., 2011, Sulfates and iron oxides in Ophir Chasma, Mars, based on OMEGA and CRISM observations, Icarus, Volume 213, Issue 1, p. 86-103, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.02.013.

Pieters, C. M., S. Besse, J. W. Boardman, B. J. Buratti, L. Cheek, R. N. Clark, J.-Ph. Combe, D. Dhingra, J. N. Goswami, R. O. Green, J. W. Head, P. Isaacson, R. Klima, G. Kramer, S. R. Lundeen, E. Malaret, T. McCord, J. F. Mustard, J. Nettles, N. E. Petro, C. Runyon, M. Staid, J. M. Sunshine, L. A. Taylor, K. Thaisen, S. Tompkins, and J. Whitten, 2011, Mg-spinel lithology: A new rock type on the lunar farside, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JE003727, in press..

McCord T.B., Hansen G.B., Combe J.-Ph., Hayne P., Hydrated Minerals on Europa’s Surface: A Second Look from the Galileo NIMS investigation, 2010, Icarus 209, Issue 2, 639-650, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.05.026.

Pieters, C. M.; Goswami, J. N.; Clark, R. N.; Annadurai, M.; Boardman, J.; Buratti, B.; Combe, J.-Ph.; Dyar, M. D.; Green, R.; Head, J. W.; Hibbitts, C.; Hicks, M.; Isaacson, P.; Klima, R.; Kramer, G.; Kumar, S.; Livo, E.; Lundeen, S.; Malaret, E.; McCord, T.; Mustard, J.; Nettles, J.; Petro, N.; Runyon, C.; Staid, M.; Sunshine, J.; Taylor, L. A.; Tompkins, S.; Varanasi, P., Character and Spatial Distribution of OH/H₂O on the Surface of the Moon Seen by M³ on Chandrayaan-1, Science, 2009, Volume 326, Issue 5952, pp. 568

Le Corre L., Le Mouélic S., Sotin C., Combe J.-Ph., Rodriguez S.,. Barnes J.W, Brown R.H., Buratti B.J., Jaumann R., Soderblom J., Soderblom L.A., Clark R., Baines K.H., Nicholson P.D., Analysis of a cryolava flow-like feature on Titan with high resolution Cassini/VIMS infrared images and Cassini/RADAR SAR images, 2009, Planetary and Space Science, vol. 57, Issue 7, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2009.03.005..

Adams, J.B., Gillespie A.R., Jackson M.P., Montgomery D.R., Dooley T.P., Combe J.-Ph., Scheiber Ch., Salt tectonics and collapse of Hebes Chasma, Valles Marineris, Mars, 2009, Geology vol. 37, no. 8, 691-694

McCord T.B., Hansen G.B., Combe J.-Ph., Hayne P., Hydrated Minerals on Europa’s Surface: A Second Look from the Galileo NIMS investigation, 2009, in review, Icarus

Williams, D.A., Greeley R., Manfredi L., Fergason R., Combe J.-Ph., Poulet F., Pinet P., Rosemberg C., Clenet H., McCord T.B., Raitala J., Neukum G., The Circum-Hellas Volcanic Province, Mars: Physical and compositional properties of the surface, 2009, in review, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., HRSC Special issue

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, vol.57, 895-916.

Combe J.-Ph. and McCord T. B., Investigation of the Mars Express HRSC Color Channel Calibration, Advances in Space Research, 2009, Volume 43, pages 128-137, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2008.05.008.

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, Volume 113, Issue E12, doi:10.1029/2008JE003131.

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.