Paolo de Matthaeis, Research Associate

GEST Research Group:

Hydrological Sciences

GSFC Code:

614.6

Mailing Address:

Building 33, Room A111
NASA GSFC, Code 614.6
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6895

Fax:

(301) 614-5558

Email:

paolo.dematthaeis@nasa.gov

URL:

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Research Interests:

Biography:

Dr. Paolo de Matthaeis was born in Rome, Italy. He received the Laurea degree (Summa cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy, in 1991. In 1993-1994 he was with the European Space Agency at ESTEC in The Netherlands under the Young Graduate Trainee program. In 1994-1995, he received a grant from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to carry out research in the SIR- C/X-SAR data at the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He earned the Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2005. He is currently working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, as a Research Associate with the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center (GEST) of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research work includes electromagnetic modeling of vegetation, and microwave active and passive remote sensing, and he is part of the Science Algorithms team of the AQUARIUS instrument.