At the Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques, Meteo France, Toulouse, I worked on the preparation of surface soil moisture and leaf area index data assimilation into the French land surface model ISBA. During this period, I was involved in the validation of different passive and active microwave satellite products over France, with a particular focus on Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS). Since my return to Australia I have coordinated and led a number of calibration/validation (cal/val) campaigns for the Australian land validation segment of European Space Agencys SMOS mission in the Australian arid zone and the Murrumbidgee River catchment. In addition to this, I continues to work on land surface data assimilation and also participated in the Australian cal/val campaigns for the Soil Moisture Active Passive and the Aquarius missions.
As remote sensing of the environment includes other aspects, but soil moisture, I am now also working on the spectral properties of vegetation for bushfire modelling and some work on observing snow properties in Antarctica for climate change research work
