Dr. G. BOULET is a research scientist at IRD with a PhD in Hydrology from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. He has a ten years experience in field experiments and research developments designed for semi-arid water resources sustainable management (HAPEX-Sahel, EFEDA, SALSA). His research mostly focused on scale issues in hydrology and more recently in the development of methodologies to assimilate remote sensing data into distributed hydrological models. He will lead WP3 on model development.

Dr. A.G. CHEHBOUNI is a research scientist leading the Hydrology Group of CESBIO. He has a PhD in Hydrology and Remote Sensing from the University of Toulouse. He has been working at the University of Arizona for 18 months and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 2 years. He is co-investigator of several Remote Sensing programs (VEGETATION, ERS2/ATSR2, EOS). He participated in several international experiments (MONSOON’90, Hapex Sahel) and he was a co-leader of the Semi-Arid-Land-Surface-Atmosphere (SALSA) international program . He will lead WP4 and the scientific steering committee of the project.

Dr. B. DUCHEMIN is a scientist at IRD since January 1, 2001. He has a strong experience in computer and remote sensing sciences applied to the monitoring of the continental biosphere. He was involved during five years in the SPOT European Programme, first as a PhD thesis at the Bioclimatology Unit of French Agronomic Research National Institute in Bordeaux (“VEGETATION data used in combination with others sensors for monitoring of forests at regional scale”, 1995-1998), second as a post-doc at CESBIO in the framework of the CNES project for the “improvements and continuity of the VEGETATION mission” (1999-2000). His research aims at developing spatial approaches to drive growth and evapotranspiration process models with satellite data.

Dr R. ESCADAFAL is a senior research scientist, with a Ph.D in Soil Science and Remote Sensing from the University of Paris. After a post-doc in the University of Arizona, he has been leading several research programmes in northern Africa and has been recently co-ordinating the CAMELEO project in the JRC ISPRA on desertification monitoring with satellites. He is now responsible for a joint project on integrated watershed management in Morocco and is coordinating the thematic network on geoinformation for land and water management in the Mediterranean (LandWaterMED). He will coordinate the project activities (WP8).

Dr. J. ALBERGEL and Dr. J-P. BRUNEL are senior scientists at IRD, both with Ph.Ds in hydrology. J.A. is team leader of AMBRE, assistant Manager of LISAH. He managed many scientific projects (National and European, INCO DC, INCO MED). He took part in many consultancies for International Organisations (UNDP, World Bank, ISBRAM, ACSAD). JP.B. has expertise in surface hydrology, micrometeorology and isotope geochemistry, 15 years experience of research in arid and semi arid zones (Tunisia, Australia, Mexico and USA) with involvement in 3 international research projects (OASIS, HAPEX, SALSA).



Selected publications

Boulet G., Chehbouni A., Braud I., Vauclin M., Haverkamp R. and Zammit C., 2000, A simple water and energy balance model designed for spatialisation and remote sensing data utilization, Agric. Forest Meteorol., 105, 117-132

Escadafal R., Guemouria N., (eds), 2002, "Arid regions monitored by satellites:from observing to modeling for sustainable management". Proc. Intern. Symp., 12-15 nov.2001 Marrakech, IRD, Paris

Chehbouni A., Nouvellon Y., Kerr Y.H., Moran M. S., Watts C., Prevot L., Goodrich D.C. and Rambal S., 2001, Directional effect on radiative surface temperature measurements over a semi-arid grassland site, Rem. Sens. Environ. 76:360-372

Chehbouni A., Goodrich D.C., Moran M.S., Watts C., Kerr Y.H., Dedieu G., Kepner W.G., Shuttleworth W.J. and Sorooshia S., 2000, A preliminary synthesis of major scientific results during the SALSA program, J. Agric. and For. Meteorol. 105:311-323

Project publications are available in the library