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LPV Leadership and Focus Area Leads

LPV Contacts

The LPV subgroup is led by a peer-nominated chair and vice-chair that serve 3-year terms. The current chair is Michael Cosh, of the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture Research Service's (ARS) Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory.  The LPV vice-chair is Fabrizio Niro, of SERCO at ESA/ESRIN.  The subgroup consists of 10 Focus Areas, each led by internationally independent co-chairs who have been actively involved in validation activities and are respected community members (see table below).

Each participant in the LPV subgroup holds their position for a term of three years, after which nominations are requested, except the focus area lead positions, which are renewable for an additional term if all parties are in agreement.

GroupFirst NameSurnameInstitutionCountryEmail
ChairMichaelCoshUSDAUSA michael.cosh [ at ] usda.gov
Vice Chair Fabrizio Niro Serco ESA/ESRIN Italy fabrizio.niro [ at ] ext.esa.int
SecretariatJaimeNickesonGSFCUSA jaime.nickeson [ at ] nasa.gov
Landcover SophieBontemps Université catholique de Louvain Belgium Sophie.Bontemps [ at ] uclouvain.be
AlexandraTyukavina University of Maryand USA atyukav [ at ] umd.edu
Biophysical
(LAI & FAPAR)		 SylvainLeblanc Natural Resources Canada
Canada Sylvain.Leblanc [ at ] canada.ca
MarieWeissINRAFrance Marie.Weiss [ at ] inra.fr
LukeBrownUniversity of SalfordUK L.A.Brown4 [ at ] salford.ac.uk
Active Fire -
Burn Area		 LouisGiglioUniversity of MarylandUSA lgiglio [ at ] umd.edu
BernardoMotaNational Physical LaboratoryUK bernardo.mota [ at ] npl.co.uk
Surface Radiation
(Albedo, BRDF, etc)		 ZhuosenWangNASA GSFCUSA zhuosen.wang [ at ] nasa.gov
JorgeSánchez-ZaperoEOLabSpain jorge.sanchez [ at ] eolab.es
AngelaErbUMass BostonUSA Angela.Erb [ at ] umb.edu
Soil Moisture John Bolten NASA GSFCUSA John.Bolten [ at ] nasa.gov
Alex GruberVienna University of TechnologyAustria alexander.gruber [ at ] geo.tuwien.ac.at
Land Surface Temperature &
Emmisivity		 Lluís Pérez-PlanellsKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany lluis.planells [ at ] kit.edu
GlynnHulleyNASA JPLUSA glynn.hulley [ at ] jpl.nasa.gov
Phenology JoshuaGray NC State UniversityUSA jmgray2 [ at ] ncsu.edu
Víctor Rodríguez-Galiano University of SevilleSpain vrodriguez8 [ at ] us.es
Vegetation Indices TomoakiMiuraUniversity of Hawai'iUSA tomoakim [ at ] hawaii.edu
ElseSwinnenVITOBelgium else.swinnen [ at ] vito.be
Snow Cover CarrieVuyovichNASA GSFCUSA carrie.m.vuyovich [ at ] nasa.gov
JuhaLemmetyinenFinnish Meteorological InstituteFinland Juha.Lemmetyinen [ at ] fmi.fi
Biomass LauraDuncansonUniversity of MarylandUSA lduncans [ at ] umd.edu
KimCaldersGhent University Belgium kim.calders [ at ] ugent.be
NehaHunkaUniversity of MarylandUSA nhunka [ at ] umd.edu

LPV history and international collaboration

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