Projects in South America

EC programme Tropical Ecosystem Environment observation by Satellites (TREES): TREES'94 ERS-1 Study.

Country: South America

Period: 1994 - 1995

Objective(s): Scientific co-ordination for the radar experiments of eight research teams from Germany, France, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands for test sites in Latin America.

Partners: EU Joint Research Centre, European Commission (funding).

Remote sensing research of tropical rain forests for development of satellite monitoring systems and advanced airborne radar survey

Country: Guyana, Surinam and Colombia

Period: 1988 - 1995

Objective(s): Principal investigator for execution of pilot projects at sites of the Tropenbos Foundation in Guyana, Surinam, and Colombia. Co-ordinating investigator for the SAREX-92 campaign of ESA in Guyana and Colombia. Principal investigator for the South-American AIRSAR 1993 deployment and SIR-C/X-SAR in Guyana and Colombia. Member of NASA's SIR-C Science Team 'Ecology'.

Partners: Tropenbos Foundation, ESA, NASA, BCRS (funding)

ESA/INPE Amazonian expedition for preparation of ERS-1 mission

Country: Brazil and French Guyana

Period: 1986

Objective(s): Co-ordinator for fieldwork, airborne scatterometer experiments and radar application research.

Partners: Brazilian Space Agency (INPE), ESA/ESTEC (funding).