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Metrological Traceability Frequently Asked Questions and NIST Policy

May 6, 2021
Author(s)
Sally Bruce, Antonio Possolo, Robert Watters
The NIST policy on metrological traceability (NIST P 5800.00, which became effective on May 31st, 2019) is transcribed and supplemented with a review of relevant terminology and with a list of frequently asked questions and answers. This list updates and

The NIST Plan for Providing Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research

October 27, 2015
Author(s)
Katherine E. Sharpless, Regina L. Avila, Sally S. Bruce, Wo L. Chang, Robert M. Dimeo, Virginia Covahey, Alan K. Dohne, Heather M. Evans, Aaron P. Fein, Donna J. Kimball, Andrea M. Medina-Smith, Alan E. Munter, James K. Olthoff, Dianne L. Poster, Kathleen M. Roberts, Susannah B. Schiller, John H. Scott, Barbara P. Silcox, James A. St Pierre, Mark D. Stiles
Documentation of the evolution of NIST's plan for providing public access to results of federally funded research is provided, including the plan itself, responses to comments made by NIST staff, and public comments received in response to a request for

Proficiency Testing for Achieving Accreditation in Thermometry

June 5, 2008
Author(s)
Sally S. Bruce, Gregory F. Strouse
The establishment of traceability is an essential component of laboratory accreditation for Calibration laboratories accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP). Traceability requires that an unbroken chain of comparisons

NIST Measurement Services That Support Optoelectronics

July 1, 2002
Author(s)
Sally S. Bruce, Christopher L. Cromer
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers a variety of hundreds of measurement services to its customers as a part of it's core mission. These services include reference data, reference materials, and physical measurements and

Webpage for Optical Technology Division: SIRCUS Facility

May 1, 2002
Author(s)
Sally Bruce, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke
Spectral irradiance and Radiance Calibrations with Uniform Sources (SIRCUS) is a reference calibration facility that transfers detector based spectral irradiance scales derived from the High Accuracy Cryogenic Radiometer, to broadband filtered detector

Final Report of the e-SRM Committee on the Optimal Delivery of Services to Customers for Standard Reference Materials

June 1, 2001
Author(s)
John C. Travis, Sally Bruce, D J. Clarke, James R. Ehrstein, Michael S. Epstein, Daniel G. Friend, T E. Gills, Kenneth G. Inn, Larry L. Lucas, James E. Potzick, M H. Saunders, N M. Trahey, G M. Ugiansky, R. Michael Verkouteren, D P. Vigliotti, Robert Watters
The e-SRM committee was formed at the request of Technology Services (TS) to recommend ways to employ appropriate technologies to optimize the consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness with which NIST provides technical support to customers for Standard

The Fifth SeaWiFS Intercalibration Round-Robin Experiment (SIRREX-S), July 1996

October 1, 1999
Author(s)
Bettye C. Johnson, Howard W. Yoon, Sally S. Bruce, Ping-Shine Shaw, E A. Thompson, S B. Hooker, R Barnes, R Eplee, S Maritorena, J Mueller
This report documents the fifth Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Intercalibration Round-Robin experiment (SIRREX-5), which was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on 23 July to 30 July 1996. The agenda for

The NIST Calibration Services Virtual Library

July 11, 1999
Author(s)
Sally S. Bruce, W Trefzger
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers a variety of hundreds of calibration services to its customers as a part of its core mission. Divisions within several NIST Measurement and Standards Laboratories provide these services. Many

Measurement Services for Optoelectronics at NIST

June 16, 1999
Author(s)
Sally S. Bruce
The National Institute of Standards and Technololgy (NIST) offers a variety of hundreds of measurement services to its customers as a part of it's core mission. These services include reference data, reference materials, and physical measurements and

Vacuum Processing Technique for Development of Primary Standard Blackbodies

June 1, 1999
Author(s)
Magdalena Navarro, Sally Bruce, B. Carol Johnson, A V. Murthy, Robert D. Saunders
Blackbody sources with nearly unity emittance that are in equilibrium with a pure freezing metal such as gold, silver, or copper are used as primary standard sources in the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90). Recently, a facility using radio

Volume 4, The 1997 Prelaunch Radiometric Calibration of Sea WiFS

April 1, 1999
Author(s)
Bettye C. Johnson, Howard W. Yoon, Sally S. Bruce, Ping-Shine Shaw, E A. Thompson, S B. Hooker, R Eplee, R Barnes, S Maritorena, J Mueller
The Sea-viewing Side Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) was originally calibrated by the instrument's manufacturer, Santa Barbara Research Center (SBRC), in November 1993. In preparation for an August 1997 launch, the Sea WiFS Project and the National