UCL DEPARTMENT OF SPACE & CLIMATE PHYSICS

• Stereo imaging of clouds
• Machine vision applications
• Atmospheric sciences

B.Sc. Geography, University College London (2006)

M.Sc. Remote Sensing, University College London (2009)

"New cloud products from (A)ATSR(2) by fusing stereo photogrammetry and Optimal Estimation for improving the detection of global climate change from the monitoring of changing cloud-top height distributions after validation using ground-based radar, lidar and imaging."

Supervisors: Prof. Jan-Peter Muller & Dr Caroline Poulsen

Studies of the vertical and horizontal distributions of clouds over a 15 year time period starting in 1997 will be made using products derived from the unique multispectral and multi -look stereo capabilities of the British (A)ATSR(2) instrument. These satellite-derived products will be inter- compared where temporal overlap exists and with other ESA (MERIS) and NASA (MISR and MODIS cloud products) to assess what unique information each product provides and how by combining this unique information, insights into the nature of clouds and their responses to changing levels of CO2 can be better assessed. These satellite-derived products will also be compared against cloud boundary and microphysical information derived from ground-based radars and lidars at the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric Radar Research (CFARR) as well as the ARM sites in the central US and in the tropical West Pacific have when comparing continuous profile measurements against 2D first-observable and Australia. This will allow us to assess how representative these sites are of general cloud climatologies as well as what impact time and space sampling characteristics surface ones from satellite. 

ALANIS Smoke Plumes Project

Consortium: UCL, NOVELTIS, WUR, JRC, LATMOS

The project aims at advancing towards the development and validation of novel EO-based multi-mission products and their integration into suitable land-atmosphere coupled models (responding directly to the specific scientific requirements of the iLEAPS community) for improving the estimation of plume injection height of biomass burning events occurred in boreal Eurasia and reducing current uncertainties in related greenhouse-gas and aerosol dispersion forecast.

Journal Articles

Fisher, D., J-P Muller. (In Prep.).  Improving Co-registration Between the Nadir and Forward views of the ATSR instruments.

Conference Proceedings

Muller, J-P., D. Walton, D. Fisher, 2010. AMVs from ATSR-2-AATSR and the proposed uncooled thermal IR pushbroom MISRLITE constellation. Tenth Interntal National Winds Workshop. Tokyo, Japan 22-26 February.

Fisher, D., J-P. Muller, 2010. Stereo Motion Vectors from ATSR-2 and AATSR.  ESA Living Planet Symposium. Bergen, Norway 28 June-2 July.

Fisher, D., J-P Muller, 2010. Improved Stereo Retreival of Cloud-Top Heights and Winds from ATSR2 and AATSR: Techniques and Results.  Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Annual Conference. Cork, Ireland 1-3 September.

Fisher D., J-P Muller, V. Yershov., 2011. The Development of Novel Stereo Derived Smoke Plume Products for AATSR and their Application to the 2010 Russian Fire Season. EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria 3-8 April.   

Muller J-P., V. Yershov, D. Fisher, 2012. Stereo retrievals of cloud and smoke winds and heights from EO platforms: past, present and future prospects. Tenth Interntal National Winds Workshop. Auckland, New Zealand 20-24 February.

• Mapping Science - Demonstrating to new M.Sc. Remote Sensing students methods in mapping science.

2012

• ALANIS Final Workshop, Potsdam, Germany (February)
  
• RSPSoc Annual Student Meeting (ASM), Falmouth, UK (March)

2011

• RSPSoc Annual Student Meeting (ASM), Buxton, UK (March)
• NCEO Student Conference, Leicester, Swansea (April)
• EGU, Vienna, Austria (April)

2010

• RSPSoc Annual Student Meeting (ASM), Plymouth, UK (March)
• ESA Living Planet Symposium, Bergen, Norway (June/July)
• ESA Earth Observation Summer School, Frascati, Italy (August)
• NCEO Annual Meeting, Leicester, UK (September)
• RSPSoc 2010 Annual Conference, Cork, Ireland (September)

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