Wolfgang Szwillus
“The Fellowship not only allowed me to pursue my research but also fostered the exchange with ESA’s other solid Earth observation projects that provided and additional and unique perspective.”
Tag: living planet fellowship
Discrete Bayesian Inversion of Satellite Gravity (DISG)
Prime company: CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAET ZU (DE)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Wolfgang Szwillus. Density variations inside the mantle not only drive mantle convection but are also important indicators of rock composition variation. Satellite gravity measurements, like GOCE, are directly sensitive to large-scale density variations inside the Earth, but their potential is not yet fully used. Instead, density is typically …
Zina Mitraka
Zina Mitraka is a Research Associate at the Remote Sensing Lab (rslab.gr) of FORTH. She is a mathematician by training (Applied Mathematics Department of the University of Crete, Greece) with further studies in Environmental Engineering (MSc in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece) and a PhD on satellite Earth Observation for urban …
Large Scale Exploitation of Satellite Data for the Assessment of Urban Surface Temperatures (EO4UTEMP)
Prime company: FORTH (GR)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Zina Mitraka. The rate at which global climate change is happening is arguably the most pressing environmental challenge of the century and it affects our cities. Temperature is one of the most important parameters in climate monitoring and Earth Observation (EO) systems and the advances in remote …
Devin Huyghebaert
“The challenges of COVID-19 made travel unavailable, but nonetheless the Living Planet Fellowship provided an excellent opportunity to interact and collaborate with fellow scientists performing diverse research with the ESA satellite missions. I am grateful for the opportunity provided by the ESA Living Planet Fellowship to both perform research with the Swarm satellite measurements and …
A Swarm, SuperDARN, and ICEBEAR Collaboration – Turbulent E-region Aurora Measurements (SSIC-TEAM)
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (CA)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Devin Huyghebaert. The Swarm SuperDARN ICEBEAR Collaboration – Turbulent E-region Aurora Measurements (SSIC-TEAM) project will focus on the Farley-Buneman Instability (FBI) and its effects on plasma density irregularity and turbulence generation in the E-region ionosphere. A better understanding of the FBI is required due to its potential for …
First data set of H2O/HDO columns from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI)
A new dataset of vertical column densities of H2O and HDO retrieved from short-wave infrared reflectance measurements by the TROPOMI instrument onboard the Sentinel-5p satellite was recently released. The data quality shows improvements in noise level compared to previous missions like SCIAMACHY. The retrieval methodology, the validation approach and demonstrative applications of the dataset are …
Performance evaluation for the QAA algorithm to retrieve particulate backscattering
The Quasi-Analytical Algorithm was developed to derive inherent optical properties by analytically inverting the spectral remote-sensing reflectance. It is the algorithm used in the ESA Ocean-colour CCI project to retrieve particulate optical backscattering (bbp). Due to the high uncertainties still associated to QAA global retrievals of bbp, reliable accuracy estimates of the QAA are essential …
New studies to improve the estimation of sea ice thickness and seasonal growth rate
Accurate measurements of the sea ice area and thickness with the aid of ranging data provided by missions such as CryoSat-2 are crucial for the understanding of the transformations occurring in the Arctic, in light of observed changes in seasonality, increase of winter air temperatures and delays in freeze-up. An important factor in the calculation …