The teams

is with CNR-IFAC since 2004. From 2006 to 2007, he has been a Visiting Student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA working on microwave modelling of snow-covered surfaces. His research interests include passive and active microwave remote sensing applied to snow by using satellite and ground-based data, especially data analysis and development of electromagnetic models for passive/active microwave remote sensing of snow, vegetation, and soil. Most of his activities are carried out in the framework of ESA and ASI projects. He participates in the design and manufacturing of microwave radiometers (P- to Ka-bands). Since 2021 he leads the development of the CryoRad ultrawideband airborne demonstrator in the framework of an Italian Space Agency project. He is currently involved in several international projects regarding polar regions. He is also part of ESA SMOS L1 team, the former (but still active) NASA ESTO UWBRAD team and participates to the CIMR industrial team for the development of the Antenna Pattern Correction algorithm. He participated the Italian Antarctic Expeditions as PI and field campaign leader, carrying out his research at Concordia Station (Dome C) and Mario Zucchelli Station (Ross Sea) in 2013, 2015 and 2018. This latter campaign was focused on collecting the first UWB data in Antarctica.

is the PI of the CryoRad proposal and the Scientific Leader of SciReC study. He works at IFAC-CNR (Italy) since 1995 where is now the institute’s Director. His research interest includes the study of the cryosphere and its effect on Earth System by using, in particular, remote sensing tools. The research is carried out in the framework of several national and international programs granted by Italian Entities, the European community and Space Agencies (ESA, ASI, NASA and JAXA) and includes the participation to international teams for the studying of Polar Regions and the development and assessment of future space-borne missions devoted to cryosphere studies. He also has responsibilities in science organization and management in polar region for Italy: he is the SCAR’s delegate, the alternate at IUGG-IASC, the focal point for Global Cryopshere Watch, the co-chair of EUPolarnet Expert Group, the representative for CNR at the Concordia base committee.

Her field of research is the study of the cryosphere though passive microwave satellite observations. From 2012 to 2016, she joined the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE, France) as research engineer to take part in remote sensing activities in Antarctica with the support of a Post-Doctoral grant of two years from the French Space Agency (CNES) about using SMOS observations to investigate snow properties of the Antarctic ice sheet. Since 2017, she joined IFAC-CNR (Italy) working in the Microwave Remote Sensing Group to focus on the study of snow/ice properties from in situ measurements, satellite observations, reanalyses and models data, and electromagnetic models, including the participation to several ESA projects (e.g. CryoSMOS, DOMEX, 4DAntarctica).

has been Associate and then Full Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes since 2005. He has a background in remote sensing and radiative transfer modeling (microwave and optics). He also developed innovant instrumentations for in-situ measurements of snow grain size, snow albedo, and other snow properties. He has contributed to several ESA projects on the retrieval of snow properties from microwave and optical sensors. He is leader of the Cryosphere theme of the Trishna mission. For more information click here.

Jacqueline Boutin is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat-Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Paris, France. Her research is focused on air-sea interactions, with a particular focus on sea surface salinity variability, and on air-sea CO2 fluxes.
Since 1999, she has been involved in the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. She has participated in the development of a L-band sea surface emissivity model and in several airborne campaigns (WISE and EuroSTARRS). She coordinates scientific activities of the French SMOS-Ocean team, and co-coordinates the ESA Climate Change Initiative project on sea surface salinity. She participates in the ESA expert support laboratories and in the SMOS CATDS, which define and validate the SMOS salinity processing.
Having put a great deal of effort into developing algorithms for inverting salinity prior to the launch of SMOS, since the instrument's launch she has continued to demonstrate its sensitivity to salinity variability, and to optimize processing. She collaborates with in situ measurements specialists, in order to optimize satellite salinity validation. She is now focusing on improving salinity estimates in cold waters. For more information click here.

is a CNRS Research Scientist, working at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE). He uses and develops numerical models to study ice sheet dynamics and the interactions between the ice sheets and the rest of the climate system (atmosphere, ocean and solid Earth). He has interests in the physical processes behind ice sheet build-ups and decays over a variety of timescales, ranging from decadal to multi-millenial changes. He has worked extensively on past periods to investigate large scale ice sheet and climate changes. He has also contributed to ice sheet international intercomparison exercises, notably providing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet evolution scenarios for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) for the next century. Together with C. Ritz (IGE CNRS emeritus) and M. Leduc-Leballeur (CNR-IFAC), he elaborated an emulator for ice sheet internal temperatures to be used in inverse problems related to temperature retrieval. He his the main developer of the GRISLI ice sheet model.

is an expert with more than 20 years of experience in sea ice remote sensing. He was involved in setting up the DFG Cluster of Excellence for climate research at the University of Hamburg and headed the research topic Arctic Regions and Permafrost. He coordinated various research projects and was involved in developing and testing a system for ice prediction and route optimization to facilitate safe and efficient navigation for ships operating in the ice. In 2019, he moved to the Sea Ice Physics Section at AWI, where his responsibilities include managing the SMOS and CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service. He took part in the longest leg of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), the largest expedition to the Central Arctic to date. The measurements he took on the sea ice using microwave radiometers are essential for the further development and validation of satellite-based methods used for comprehensive observation of the polar regions. For more information click here.

Laurent Bertino has become a pillar of NERSC since his post-doc in 2002. He has a background in geostatistics and stochastic modeling but has later built up his expertise in oceanography, sea ice modeling and Arctic climate while developing the TOPAZ operational ocean and sea ice forecasting system. He has carried out impact studies of various ESA missions (SMOS, ENVISAT, CryoSAT) and overseen their transfer to NRT operations or reanalyses. He is also a member of the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research with a broad network in ice sheet modeling and has been involved in applications of data assimilation and uncertainty quantification studies across various elements of Earth System Models, so he brings a methodological expertise to the question of uncertainty levels. As leader of the Arctic forecasts of the Copernicus Marine Services he can also advise on the operational benefits of the mission. For more click here.

is full-time Associate Research Professor at the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences of KU Leuven which he combines with a 20% position of Associate Professor Geoscience & Remote Sensing at KULeuven. Stef obtained a PhD in Remote Sensing at KULeuven (2008) and worked in several international post-doc positions (CEAZA, KNMI, KULeuven) on a broad range of remote sensing technologies in a variety of applications ranging from cryospheric and atmospheric sciences to ecology and hydrology. Now his research spans a wide array of remote sensing technologies applied to cryospheric, atmospheric, ecological, and hydrological sciences. He is (co-)PI on projects involving multi-source remote sensing, including multi-frequency radiometers, radiative transfer modeling, and ice sheet/shelf modeling. Notably, his work has significantly contributed to understanding the impacts of ice sheet and shelf dynamics on global sea-level rise, a crucial component of CryoRad. As principal investigator for several internationally funded projects on ice shelf instability, Stef Lhermitte has developed and applied advanced remote sensing techniques and climate models to assess land-atmosphere feedbacks over glaciers and ice sheets. For more information click here.

is a senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Her main field of research is within ice sheet dynamics and how it relates to climate forcing on long- and short-time scales. She has a strong expertise in combining numerical models, EO data and in-situ observations to study the dynamics and processes of ice. In her current position, she is in charge of the PROMICE ice velocity product for Greenland from Sentinel-1 SAR data and has contributed significantly to the development of other operational products estimating the components of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Anne Solgaard has background in numerical ice flow modelling applying models to explore the initiation and evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as seasonal scale changes in basal conditions at smaller scales.

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Kenneth C. Jezek is a Professor Emeritus at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, School of Earth Sciences of The Ohio State University (OSU).  He received the B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1973 and went on to receive M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geophysics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Before joining OSU’s Byrd Polar Research Center as Director in 1989, Dr. Jezek was a geophysicist with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH. His most recent interests include application of ultra wide-band radiometry to ice sheet and sea ice studies. For more on UWBRAD activities click here.

is a senior scientist at FMI. She works as the Research Infrastructure PI of FMI Arctic Space Centre in Sodankylä and is responsible for the long-term development of measurement and supporting infrastructure of the Sodankylä satellite cal/val supersite. She is the FMI PI of DIWA (Digital Waters national flagship) and CRYO-RI (local snow-related infrastructure). Her research interests include snow measurements and passive microwave remote sensing of seasonal snow and cryosphere. Since starting in FMI in 2006, she has been working with numerous cryosphere and remote sensing related projects. She has over 15 years of experience of organizing field campaigns of microwave and snow measurements in Arctic conditions. For more information click here.

is a senior scientist at FMI. He has over 25 years of work experience in the Earth Observation field. His background includes microwave radiometer engineering, and active and passive remote sensing applications. He worked as a Research Scientist at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) from 1996 to 2009. He was the co-designer of the original airborne HUTRAD instrument, and he was the project manager of the HUT-2D (Helsinki University of Technology, two-dimensional airborne aperture synthesis radiometer) project, an airborne SMOS reference radiometer. Since 2010 he has been working at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), specialising in the development of retrieval algorithms for microwave remote sensing, with a focus on cryospheric applications. At FMI, he has worked as technical project manager for SMOS related frost detection algorithm development studies, and has been responsible for the development of the SMOS Level 3 operational soil freeze and thaw service. He is currently responsible for the development of the operational L2 freeze/thaw processor for the ESA Scout mission HydroGNSS. His research interests include the development of cryosphere applications, in particular soil freeze and thaw detection, for ESA SMOS, ESA HydroGNSS and future satellite missions.

is senior R&D engineer at ACRI-ST. He obtained a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Strasbourg Observatory in the field of interstellar medium and the analysis of Hipparcos data. Then, he joined the ACRI-ST company in 2002 where he developed a strong scientific expertise in radiative transfer for the study of the Earth and planetary atmospheres, inverse problems based on Bayesian method, Thikonov, etc. as well as data processing for Space and EO missions. In parallel, he has developed a deep expertise in the microwave passive data (SMOS, Aquarius and SMAP). He is an expert member (ESL) of the SMOS Ocean Salinity team for ESA with an active participation in Phase E1 and then E2, the CCI+SSS project and several R&D studies like SMOS+Polarimetry and SMOS+Rainfall. He is also an expert member for CNES in the framework of CATDS projects. He specifies, prototypes and leads validation activities for the restitution of ocean salinity using SMOS data. He's been working with Jacqueline Boutin (LOCEAN) for a long time and has co-supervised with her Clovis Thouvenin-Masson’s PhD recently defended.

obtained in 2004 the M.Sc degree in telecommunication engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain. Roger Oliva founded Zenithal Blue Technologies in 2018, a company specialised in providing expertise assessment in Earth Observation remote sensing. In his professional live, he has been working in several space projects, including the European Space Agency’s mission SMOS and Mars Express. In SMOS, he is the coordinator of the Calibration and Level 1 processing team since 2007 and the prime coordinator for the L1 and L2 Expert Support Laboratories since 2020. In this role, Roger Oliva has a long experience in managing teams and in developing a strategy to validate and compare different algorithms against a set of pre-defined metrics. Roger Oliva is also leading some international initiatives in defence of the remote sensing community. He is a former chair of the IEEE GRSS Frequency Allocation in Remote Sensing (FARS) Technical Committee, and the current chair of the RFI in Remote Sensing Working Group that leads the development of a standard to quantify the amount of RFI in the remote sensing bands.

is a research scientist with the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL), Switzerland, since 2022. His main research interests include dielectric measurements and modelling, physics-based emission and scattering modelling development and microwave radiometry of sea surface salinity (SSS) and vegetation dynamics. He has worked extensively with the NASA Aquarius and SMAP teams, as well as the ESA SMOS team, focusing on seawater dielectric measurements, modeling, and their application in sea surface salinity (SSS) retrieval. Currently, he works with SMOS ESL group, focusing on physics-based model development of the emission from multi-layer objects and its implementation in retrieval. In addition, he is also involved in P-band seawater dielectric constant model development. He was a recipient of URSI Young Scientist Award in 2021 and IEEE Industrial Engineering Paper Award on Antenna Measurements and Applications in 2022. For more information click here.

has had a diverse career in geophysics focusing on observing and understanding climate change and the use of satellite data in models and for retrievals. He is engaged in the development of new climate data records in the ESA CCI project using historical satellite data (e.g. ESMR on Nimbus 5, 1972- 77). This includes the development of models for the temporally and spatially varying uncertainty estimates and for regional noise reduction. While at the Danish Meteorological Institute he was local project manager and developed operational products for the EUMETSAT OSISAF, for example, the near 50 GHz sea ice emissivity and emitting layer temperature product for input to NWP models. He has specialized in the development and use of sea ice emission models (infrared and microwave) and scattering models (radar altimeters and scatterometers) for characterization of uncertainties, assessment of new missions, and forward model inversion for estimating sea ice snow cover, and other properties. He has extensive field work experience from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean operating radiometers and radars from ship and on ice, aircraft surveys, oceanographic measurements and doing snow and ice sampling. During the 2019/2020 winter he spent ~4 months at the North Pole participating in the MOSAiC expedition. He is a member of ESA's MetOp SG MWI and ICI science advisory group, the ESA CIMR mission advisory group and the ESA CryoRad mission advisory group. He has participated in a number of international EU, ESA, EUMETSAT and nationally funded projects. For more information click here.

is the PI of the CryoRad proposal and the Scientific Leader of SciReC study. He works at IFAC-CNR (Italy) since 1995 where is now the institute’s Director. His research interest includes the study of the cryosphere and its effect on Earth System by using, in particular, remote sensing tools. The research is carried out in the framework of several national and international programs granted by Italian Entities, the European community and Space Agencies (ESA, ASI, NASA and JAXA) and includes the participation to international teams for the studying of Polar Regions and the development and assessment of future space-borne missions devoted to cryosphere studies. He also has responsibilities in science organization and management in polar region for Italy: he is the SCAR’s delegate, the alternate at IUGG-IASC, the focal point for Global Cryopshere Watch, the co-chair of EUPolarnet Expert Group, the representative for CNR at the Concordia base committee.

has been Associate and then Full Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes since 2005. He has a background in remote sensing and radiative transfer modeling (microwave and optics). He also developed innovant instrumentations for in-situ measurements of snow grain size, snow albedo, and other snow properties. He has contributed to several ESA projects on the retrieval of snow properties from microwave and optical sensors. He is leader of the Cryosphere theme of the Trishna mission. For more information click here.

Jacqueline Boutin is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat-Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Paris, France. Her research is focused on air-sea interactions, with a particular focus on sea surface salinity variability, and on air-sea CO2 fluxes.
Since 1999, she has been involved in the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. She has participated in the development of a L-band sea surface emissivity model and in several airborne campaigns (WISE and EuroSTARRS). She coordinates scientific activities of the French SMOS-Ocean team, and co-coordinates the ESA Climate Change Initiative project on sea surface salinity. She participates in the ESA expert support laboratories and in the SMOS CATDS, which define and validate the SMOS salinity processing.
Having put a great deal of effort into developing algorithms for inverting salinity prior to the launch of SMOS, since the instrument's launch she has continued to demonstrate its sensitivity to salinity variability, and to optimize processing. She collaborates with in situ measurements specialists, in order to optimize satellite salinity validation. She is now focusing on improving salinity estimates in cold waters. For more information click here.

is an expert with more than 20 years of experience in sea ice remote sensing. He was involved in setting up the DFG Cluster of Excellence for climate research at the University of Hamburg and headed the research topic Arctic Regions and Permafrost. He coordinated various research projects and was involved in developing and testing a system for ice prediction and route optimization to facilitate safe and efficient navigation for ships operating in the ice. In 2019, he moved to the Sea Ice Physics Section at AWI, where his responsibilities include managing the SMOS and CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service. He took part in the longest leg of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), the largest expedition to the Central Arctic to date. The measurements he took on the sea ice using microwave radiometers are essential for the further development and validation of satellite-based methods used for comprehensive observation of the polar regions. For more information click here.

is a senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Her main field of research is within ice sheet dynamics and how it relates to climate forcing on long- and short-time scales. She has a strong expertise in combining numerical models, EO data and in-situ observations to study the dynamics and processes of ice. In her current position, she is in charge of the PROMICE ice velocity product for Greenland from Sentinel-1 SAR data and has contributed significantly to the development of other operational products estimating the components of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Anne Solgaard has background in numerical ice flow modelling applying models to explore the initiation and evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as seasonal scale changes in basal conditions at smaller scales.

www.geus.dk

is a senior scientist at FMI. She works as the Research Infrastructure PI of FMI Arctic Space Centre in Sodankylä and is responsible for the long-term development of measurement and supporting infrastructure of the Sodankylä satellite cal/val supersite. She is the FMI PI of DIWA (Digital Waters national flagship) and CRYO-RI (local snow-related infrastructure). Her research interests include snow measurements and passive microwave remote sensing of seasonal snow and cryosphere. Since starting in FMI in 2006, she has been working with numerous cryosphere and remote sensing related projects. She has over 15 years of experience of organizing field campaigns of microwave and snow measurements in Arctic conditions. For more information click here.

obtained in 2004 the M.Sc degree in telecommunication engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain. Roger Oliva founded Zenithal Blue Technologies in 2018, a company specialised in providing expertise assessment in Earth Observation remote sensing. In his professional live, he has been working in several space projects, including the European Space Agency’s mission SMOS and Mars Express. In SMOS, he is the coordinator of the Calibration and Level 1 processing team since 2007 and the prime coordinator for the L1 and L2 Expert Support Laboratories since 2020. In this role, Roger Oliva has a long experience in managing teams and in developing a strategy to validate and compare different algorithms against a set of pre-defined metrics. Roger Oliva is also leading some international initiatives in defence of the remote sensing community. He is a former chair of the IEEE GRSS Frequency Allocation in Remote Sensing (FARS) Technical Committee, and the current chair of the RFI in Remote Sensing Working Group that leads the development of a standard to quantify the amount of RFI in the remote sensing bands.

is a research scientist with the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL), Switzerland, since 2022. His main research interests include dielectric measurements and modelling, physics-based emission and scattering modelling development and microwave radiometry of sea surface salinity (SSS) and vegetation dynamics. He has worked extensively with the NASA Aquarius and SMAP teams, as well as the ESA SMOS team, focusing on seawater dielectric measurements, modeling, and their application in sea surface salinity (SSS) retrieval. Currently, he works with SMOS ESL group, focusing on physics-based model development of the emission from multi-layer objects and its implementation in retrieval. In addition, he is also involved in P-band seawater dielectric constant model development. He was a recipient of URSI Young Scientist Award in 2021 and IEEE Industrial Engineering Paper Award on Antenna Measurements and Applications in 2022. For more information click here.

has had a diverse career in geophysics focusing on observing and understanding climate change and the use of satellite data in models and for retrievals. He is engaged in the development of new climate data records in the ESA CCI project using historical satellite data (e.g. ESMR on Nimbus 5, 1972- 77). This includes the development of models for the temporally and spatially varying uncertainty estimates and for regional noise reduction. While at the Danish Meteorological Institute he was local project manager and developed operational products for the EUMETSAT OSISAF, for example, the near 50 GHz sea ice emissivity and emitting layer temperature product for input to NWP models. He has specialized in the development and use of sea ice emission models (infrared and microwave) and scattering models (radar altimeters and scatterometers) for characterization of uncertainties, assessment of new missions, and forward model inversion for estimating sea ice snow cover, and other properties. He has extensive field work experience from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean operating radiometers and radars from ship and on ice, aircraft surveys, oceanographic measurements and doing snow and ice sampling. During the 2019/2020 winter he spent ~4 months at the North Pole participating in the MOSAiC expedition. He is a member of ESA's MetOp SG MWI and ICI science advisory group, the ESA CIMR mission advisory group and the ESA CryoRad mission advisory group. He has participated in a number of international EU, ESA, EUMETSAT and nationally funded projects. For more information click here.

Laurent Bertino has become a pillar of NERSC since his post-doc in 2002. He has a background in geostatistics and stochastic modeling but has later built up his expertise in oceanography, sea ice modeling and Arctic climate while developing the TOPAZ operational ocean and sea ice forecasting system. He has carried out impact studies of various ESA missions (SMOS, ENVISAT, CryoSAT) and overseen their transfer to NRT operations or reanalyses. He is also a member of the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research with a broad network in ice sheet modeling and has been involved in applications of data assimilation and uncertainty quantification studies across various elements of Earth System Models, so he brings a methodological expertise to the question of uncertainty levels. As leader of the Arctic forecasts of the Copernicus Marine Services he can also advise on the operational benefits of the mission. For more click here.

is full-time Associate Research Professor at the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences of KU Leuven which he combines with a 20% position of Associate Professor Geoscience & Remote Sensing at KULeuven. Stef obtained a PhD in Remote Sensing at KULeuven (2008) and worked in several international post-doc positions (CEAZA, KNMI, KULeuven) on a broad range of remote sensing technologies in a variety of applications ranging from cryospheric and atmospheric sciences to ecology and hydrology. Now his research spans a wide array of remote sensing technologies applied to cryospheric, atmospheric, ecological, and hydrological sciences. He is (co-)PI on projects involving multi-source remote sensing, including multi-frequency radiometers, radiative transfer modeling, and ice sheet/shelf modeling. Notably, his work has significantly contributed to understanding the impacts of ice sheet and shelf dynamics on global sea-level rise, a crucial component of CryoRad. As principal investigator for several internationally funded projects on ice shelf instability, Stef Lhermitte has developed and applied advanced remote sensing techniques and climate models to assess land-atmosphere feedbacks over glaciers and ice sheets. For more information click here.

received the B.E.E.
degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1991, and the S.M. and
Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1993 and
1996, respectively.
He is currently the Burn and Sue Lin Professor
with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and ElectroScience Laboratory, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. His
research interests include microwave remote sensing,
propagation, and electromagnetic wave theory.
Dr. Johnson is a member of commissions B and F of the International Union
of Radio Science (URSI) and Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa
Phi. He received the 1993 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Society, was named an Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator, National Science Foundation Career awardee, and PECASE
Award in 1997, and was recognized by the U.S. National Committee of URSI
as a Booker Fellow in 2002. For more information click here.