ITaRS fellow presents at 2014 SPIE Remote Sensing in Amsterdam
by Robert Banks
[Update 24.10. Robert Banks was awarded by the SPIE review committee for the best student paper presented at the symposium. Congratulations!] During the last week of September Robert Banks attended SPIE Remote Sensing 2014 at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre. He presented a proceedings paper, “Retrieval of boundary layer height from lidar using extended Kalman filter approach, classic
methods, and backtrajectory cluster analysis,” in the Remote Sensing of Clouds and Atmosphere conference.
ACCEPT kick off at the CESAR observatory in Cabauw, Tuesday 7th October
Dear all,
In less than 8 days, a new measurement campaign (ACCEPT - Analysis of the Composition of mixed-phase Clouds with Extended Polarization Techniques) will take place at the CESAR observation site (Cabuw, The Netherlands). The TU Delft (Atmospheric remote sensing group of Geosince and Remote Senisn of TU Delft) and TROPOS (Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research - Leipzig, Germany) is greatly involved in it. On behalf of the campaign team, I would like to invite you all to the Kick-Off of the campaign which will be on Tuesday 7th October at the CESAR observatory in Cabauw, from 11:00 to 15:00.
ITaRS fellow in COST-TOPROF J-CAL
COST-TOPROF J-CAL (Joint microwave CALibration experiment) 25-29 august 2014, Lindenberg, Germany
From August 25th to 29th I participated in the Joint microwave CALibration experiment (J-CAL) at the DWD Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory. The aim of this campaign was to assess the performance of standardized calibration routines of different microwave radiometers under similar external conditions. The campaign instrumentation consited of two Radiometrics profiler (DWD Lindenberg) and 3 RPG HATPRO instruments of different series: G1 (Schneefernerhaus, 2005), G2 (IMGW Poland, 2008) G4 (RPG demonstrator, 2014). Extra radiosondes (in addition to the 4 daily sondes) were also available.
ITaRS fellow in EuroScipy 2014
From 27th to 30th of August I participated at EuroScipy 2014, a European meeting about the use of the python programming language in sciences. Held in Cambridge, UK, EuroScipy brings together both developers of scientific tools and users from different scientific fields. Scientists have often to handle large amounts of data, and their formal education does not prepare them for that. This is especially true in remote sensing, as new sensor produce increasing amount of measurement data, a trend that is expected to continue in the following years.