Marc Simard
Gund Affiliate
Senior Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- PhD, Geomatics Sciences, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- MS, Physics, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- BS, Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
BIO
Dr. Marc Simard is a Senior Research Scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He is the Principal Investigator of Delta-X, a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital mission. He is a member of the NASA/CNES SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Science Team and the STV (Surface Topography and Vegetation) Incubation Study Team. His research focuses on the development of radar remote sensing techniques to retrieve geophysical parameters required to understand the role and feedback of climatic and hydrogeomorphic processes on vegetation structure and productivity, with a particular emphasis on wetland and coastal environments. His early research was dedicated to the development and refinement of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), polarimetric InSAR (PolInSAR) and Lidar/InSAR/PolinSAR fusion algorithms to characterize land surface topography and the vertical structure of vegetation. Simard then used these matured technologies to model ecosystem productivity as a function of climatic, hydrological and geophysical variables.
Publications
Area(s) of expertise
Radar remote sensing of forests, surface topography, ocean topography, climatic and hydrogeomorphic processes on vegetation.
Bio
Dr. Marc Simard is a Senior Research Scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He is the Principal Investigator of Delta-X, a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital mission. He is a member of the NASA/CNES SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Science Team and the STV (Surface Topography and Vegetation) Incubation Study Team. His research focuses on the development of radar remote sensing techniques to retrieve geophysical parameters required to understand the role and feedback of climatic and hydrogeomorphic processes on vegetation structure and productivity, with a particular emphasis on wetland and coastal environments. His early research was dedicated to the development and refinement of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), polarimetric InSAR (PolInSAR) and Lidar/InSAR/PolinSAR fusion algorithms to characterize land surface topography and the vertical structure of vegetation. Simard then used these matured technologies to model ecosystem productivity as a function of climatic, hydrological and geophysical variables.
Publications
Areas of Expertise
Radar remote sensing of forests, surface topography, ocean topography, climatic and hydrogeomorphic processes on vegetation.