GEST: De Matthaeis, Paolo

Paolo De Matthaeis, Research Associate

GEST Research Group:

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

GSFC Code:

614.2

Mailing Address:

Hydrological and Biospheric Sciences
Building 33, Room A111
NASA GSFC, Code 614.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6895

Fax:

(301) 614-5558

Email:

paolo.dematthaeis@nasa.gov

Most Recent Publication:

Le Vine, D.M., S.D. Jacob, E.P. Dinnat, P. de Matthaeis and S. Abraham (2007), The Influence of Antenna Pattern on Faraday Rotation in Remote Sensing at L-Band, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45, No. 9, 2737-2746.

Research Interests:

Electromagnetic modeling of vegetation, active and passive microwave remote sensing of the ocean surface, and estimation of the upper ocean heat content using satellite data. Dr. de Matthaeis is part of the Science Algorithms team of the AQUARIUS instrument (http://aquarius.gsfc.nasa.gov/).

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 interests include active and passive microwave remote sensing, with a focus on electromagnetic modeling of vegetation and sea surface. He is part of the Science Algorithms team for the Aquarius instrument, where he has been working on the radiometer and radar scatterometer simulators.