Dr Sandra Monerris-Belda - Researcher Profile

Biography

Alessandra Monerris received the degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, and the PhD from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. She spent four months as a visiting PhD student at the Universita Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. She was involved in a series of field experiments sponsored as part of the preparatory activities of the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, launched in 2009. From 2008 to 2011, she was Executive Director of the SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SMOS-BEC). In May 2011 she joined the Water Group from the Civil Engineering at Monash University. She took part and coordinated the Third Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiment (SMAPEx-3). She is now responsible of the management of the OzNet monitoring network in the Murrumbidgee Catchment, NSW. Her research interests deal with the retrieval of soil moisture and vegetation parameters from L-band observations.

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Keywords

remote sensing, hydrology, vegetation

Qualifications

PHD - TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, REMOTE SENSIN

Institution: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Year awarded: 2009

BACHELOR OF TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Institution: Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Year awarded: 2001

Languages

• English
• Spanish
• Italian
• Catalan

Citizenship

• Citizen of Spain