Appendix 4 to esa ao/1-9225/18/NL/FF/gp

Family name	Fjaeraa	First name	Ann Mari
Position	Senior Research Scientist	Company	NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Phone number	[phone]	e-Mail	[e-mail]
Date of Birth	31 August 1976	Nationality	Norwegian
Relevant Experience
A.M. Fjaeraa has 12 years of experience with project management, project coordination and development of a large number of EU and ESA projects for climate research within Earth Observation and Ground based Infrastructures. She has expert skills in database management, is well trained in coordination, monitoring and follow-up of project activities, and broad expertise in serving user needs and providing user support, with a large portfolio of external contacts.
Qualifications and Affiliations
Education and present position: 2005 Cand. Scient (M.Sc) in Meteorology, University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Norway 2005 - present Senior research scientist at NILU, Norway. Data analysis, database management, Air Quality Assessment. Project management. Core Competences: Database management. Air Quality and GHG data analysis and presentation; data retrieval. Competences: Programming Languages: Python, Fortran, Perl, IDL, MatLab. Operating Systems: Linux, Windows Publications and presentations (selected): Fjæraa, A. M. (2017) Understanding air quality by utilizing satellite data. Lecture presented at a ESA/NRS meeting at the Norwegian Space Center, Oslo, 12 December 2017  Myhre, C. L., Fjæraa, A. M., Fiebig, M., Rud, R. O., Yttri, K. E., & Eckhardt, P. (2017) ACTRIS Data Centre - Data curation of in situ aerosol and trace gas data. Lecture presented at ACTRIS-2 third WP3 workshop, Madrid, 17-19 October 2017 Fjæraa, A. M. (2017) EVDC - ESA atmospheric Validation Data Centre. Lecture presented at ESA ADM-Aeolus Cal/Val workshop, Toulouse 28.mars 2017  Myhre, C.L., Hermansen, O., Fiebig, M., Lunder, C., Fjæraa, A.M., Svendby, T., Platt, M., Hansen. G., Schmidbauer, N., Krognes, T. (2016) Monitoring of greenhouse gases and aerosols at Svalbard and Birkenes in 2015 - Annual report. Miljødirektoratet rapport, M-694/2016 (31/2016) Schmale, J., Henning, S., Henzing, B., Keskinen, H., Sellegri, K., Ovadnevaite, J., Bougiatioti, A., Kalivitis, N., Stavroulas, I., Jefferson, A., Park, M., Schlag, P., Kristensson, A., Iwamoto, Y., Pringle, K., Reddington, C., Aalto, P., Äijälä, M., Baltensperger, U., Bialek, J., Birmili, W., Bukowiecki, N., Ehn, M., Fjæraa, A. M., Fiebig, M., Frank, G., Fröhlich, R., Frumau, A., Furuya, M., Hammer, E., Heikkinen, L., Herrmann, E., Holzinger, R., Hyono, H., Kanakidou, M., Kiendler-Scharr, A., Kinouchi, K., Kos, G., Kulmala, M., Mihalopoulos, N., Motos, G., Nenes, A., O¿Dowd, C., Paramonov, M., Petäjä, T., Picard, D., Poulain, L., Prévôt, A. S. H., Slowik, J., Sonntag, A., Swietlicki, E., Svenningsson, B., Tsurumaru, H., Wiedensohler, A., Wittbom, C., Ogren, J. A., Matsuki, A., Yum, S. S., Myhre, C. L., Carslaw, K., Stratmann, F., & Gysel, M. (2017) Collocated observations of cloud condensation nuclei, particle size distributions, and chemical composition. Myhre, C.L., Ferré, B., Platt, S.M., Silyakova, A., Hermansen, O., Allen, G., Pisso, I., Schmidbauer, N., Stohl, A., Pitt, J., Jansson, P., Greinert, J., Percival, C., Fjaeraa, A.M., O'Shea, S.J., Gallagher, M., Le Breton, M., Bower, K.N., Bauguitte, S.J.B., Dalsøren, S., Vadakkepuliyambatta, S., Fisher, R.E., Nisbet, E.G., Lowry, D., Myhre, G., Pyle, J.A., Cain, M., Mienert, J. (2016) Extensive release of methane from Arctic seabed west of Svalbard during summer 2014 does not influence the atmosphere.

Family name	Schneider	First name	Philipp
Position	Senior Research Scientist	Company	NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Phone number	[phone]	e-Mail	[e-mail]
Date of Birth	1977	Nationality	German
Relevant Experience
A. Kylling has 30 years of experience with radiative transfer modelling. This includes model development, testing, validation and documentation of the much used libradtran model (www.libradtran.org). He has participated in numerous experimental campaigns with ground, balloon, and aircraft-based instruments and analysed data thereof. Furthermore he has experience in data retrieval from solar and thermal ground and satellite based instruments. He has also taken part in the development of solar radiation instruments. A. Kylling has participated in numerous national and international projects, and has collaborators world-wide as demonstrated by his publication record.
Qualifications and Affiliations
Education and present position: 2008: Ph.D. in Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation topic: Modeling spatial patterns of wildfire susceptibility in Southern California - Applications of MODIS remote sensing data and mesoscale numerical weather models Committee members: Dr. Dar A. Roberts (Chair), Dr. Phaedon C. Kyriakidis, Dr. Michael F. Goodchild, Robert E. Burgan 2003: Diplom (M. Sc.) in Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany Thesis topic: Validation and scaling of digital elevation models from SRTM X-SAR for applications in hydrologic modeling Thesis advisors: Dr. Ralf Ludwig and Dr. Wolfram Mauser Minors in remote sensing and meteorology 2011- Senior Scientist, Urban Environment and Industry Department, NILU. Satellite remote sensing, air quality and climate. Exploring the use of crowdsourcing techniques for air quality monitoring, and data assimilation. Core Competences: Applications of remote sensing for monitoring and mapping air quality Data assimilation and data fusion techniques for urban air quality models Applications of remote sensing for quantifying the impacts of global and regional climate change Use of low-cost microsensors for air quality monitoring and mapping Using inland water bodies worldwide for as indicators of regional and global climate change Constructing long time series of lake temperatures worldwide from multi-sensor thermal infrared imagery and quantifying temporal trends Applications of remote sensing for natural hazards (prediction, monitoring, and mitigation) Spatial patterns of wildfire risk, particularly in California Wildfire behavior modeling Using medium-resolution imagery (MODIS) for improving spatially distributed wildfire susceptibility assessment Developing software for remote sensing analysis, risk assessment and computational envi- ronmental modelling Competences: Extensive knowledge of R and MATLAB for geospatial data handling, including image processing, statistical analysis, geostatistical algorithms, visualization, etc. Further programming experience in FORTRAN, Python, IDL, Java, C, C++, HTML – Remote Sensing and image processing: ENVI 4.6/IDL, Erdas Imagine, MODTRAN, RTTOV, ViperTools GIS packages: ArcGIS 9.3, ArcView 3.3, IDRISI, Quantum GIS Fire behavior models: FARSITE, HFIRE, BehavePlus, FlamMap Web development: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, MacOS X, Linux, Solaris and other UNIX variants Software packages: Microsoft Office, LATEX, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom Languages: English, German medium-level Norwegian, basic French and Spanish Publications (selected): Castell N., P. Schneider, S. Grossberndt, M. F. Fredriksen, G. Sousa-Santos, M. Vogt, A. Bartonova, 2017. Localized real-time information on outdoor air quality at kindergartens in Oslo, Norway using low-cost sensor nodes. Environmental Research, in press. Schneider P., N. Castell, M. Vogt, F. R. Dauge, W. A. Lahoz, A. Bartonova, 2017. Mapping urban air quality in near real-time using observations from low-cost sensors and model information. Environment International, Environment International, Volume 106, 234-247. Castell N., F. R. Dauge, P. Schneider, M. Vogt, U. Lerner, B. Fishbain, D. Broday, A. Bartonova, 2017. Can commercial low-cost sensor platforms contribute to air quality monitoring and exposure estimates? Environment International, 99, 293-302. Grigas, T., M. Hervo, G. Gimmestad, H. Forrister, P. Schneider, J. Preißler, L. Tarrason, C. O’Dowd, 2015. CALIOP near-real-time backscatter products compared to EARLINET data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 12179-12191, doi:10.5194/acp-15-12179-2015, 2015. Sharma, S., Gray, D. K., Read, J. S., O’Reilly, C. M., Schneider, P., Qudrat, A., ... Woo, K. H. (2015). A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985-2009. Nature Scientific Data, 2, 150008. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.8 Castell, N., M. Kobernus, H.-Y. Liu, P. Schneider, W. Lahoz, A. J. Berre, J. Noll, 2014. Mobile technologies and services for environmental monitoring: The Citi-Sense-MOB approach. Urban Climate, 14, Part 3, 370-382, DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.08.002 Schneider, P., W. A. Lahoz, and R. van der A, 2015. Recent satellite-based trends of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide over large urban agglomerations worldwide. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 1205-1220. doi:10.5194/acp-15-1205-2015 Schneider, P., R. van der A, 2012. Global Trends of Tropospheric Nitrogen Dioxide Observed from Space. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 117(D16), 1-17.

Family name	GONZALO	First name	JESÚS
Position	Head of Aerospace Research Group	Company	University of León
Phone number	[phone]	e-Mail	[e-mail]
Date of Birth	16/10/69	Nationality	Spanish
Relevant Experience
2005-today: Associate professor in Aerospace School at University pf León/Spain 2005-today: Head of Aerospace Research Group at University pf León/Spain 2001-2005: Head of R&D department at Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales (INSA) 1994-2001: System engineer in EO Mission Department at Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales (INSA). Lead engineer of ESA/EU FUEGOSAT mission Jesús GONZALO joined Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales (INSA, NASA DSN operator in Spain) in 1994, to develop Earth Observation systems and applications. He initiated and developed the FUEGOSAT programme, a constellation of dedicated small satellites for fire-fighting support, leading two large FP-IV projects (2 and 7 MEur) and eight ESA projects including the development of data processing chains and real-time demonstrations to users, with participation as local IP in many others. He was responsible of the R&D department at INSA, heading 12 full-time engineers and 40 part-time researchers. In 2005 he moved to University of León, leading the establishment of an Aerospace Research Area and starting the SANCHO Programme, the end-to-end development of a high altitude aerostatic platform for Earth observation, communications and navigation. The project included field tests with two models of 22-m and 33-m length. As a result of that program, Dr. Gonzalo developed services on micrometeorology (currently funded by Boeing R&T Europe), embedded flight management, planetary exploration based on aircrafts, propulsion of unmanned vehicles and disaster monitoring, mitigation and damage assessment. He is currently the scientific leader of the NASA/JPL supported FIRESAT project. In 2016 the research group of Dr. Gonzalo was awarded with the ESA GSP HAPPIEST study to analyse the HAPS potential in communications and other complementary applications and to envisage a development roadmap. Apart from the project leadership, he was in charge of the Earth observation applications and the corresponding performance analysis. Dr. Gonzalo is currently the scientific manager of the ECOSAT/ALTRAN initiative (stratospheric airship as a spin-off from Solar Impulse). He stayed at CalTech Keck institute during summer 2017 giving HAPS conferences. Author or co-author of 25 Scopus-indexed publications, 3 books and holding 5 patents on aerospace sciences.
Qualifications and Affiliations
Education and present position: M.S in Aeronautical engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid/Spain PhD in Physics, University of Valladolid/Spain Core Competences: End-to-end development of EO space missions Development and operation of autonomous airships Lecturer on aerospace technologies (Flight dynamics, Aerodynamics, Satellites, CFD) Other competences: Infrared remote sensing of forest fires Airship-borne instruments Embedded systems Publications (selected): 2018 - “On the capabilities and limitations of high altitude pseudo-satellites”, J. Gonzalo, D. López, D. Domínguez, A. García, A. Escapa, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Volume 70, p. 28-41. Elsevier 2017 - “High Altitude Pseudo-satellites: Proposal of Initiatives to Enhance Satellite Telecommunications (HAPPIEST): Final Report”, HAP-ULE-D1/02, ESA contract ESA contract No: 4000117605/16/NL/GLC 2013 - “Lighter-Than-Air Paticle Velocimetry for Wind Speed Profile Measurement”, J. Gonzalo; D. Domínguez; D. López, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 33C, pp. 323 - 332. Elsevier SCI Ltd. ISSN 1364-0321 2012 - “Modular airplane for education in flight mechanics”, J. Gonzalo, International Journal of Engineering Education. 28, pp. 227 - 234. Tempus Publications, 2012. ISSN 0949-149X 2009 - “Concepts for aerostatic planetary exploration”, Gonzalo, J., Rodríguez, J.A., Gómez-Elvira, J., Domínguez, I., Proceedings of the 61st edition of the IAC, IAC-05-B2.1.04, 2008 - “Space technologies for the benefit of human society and planet Earth”, Springer. ISBN 14-0209-572-4, Section 8: Disaster Monitoring, Mitigation And Damage Assessment, J. Gonzalo, G. Martín-de-Mercado, F. Valcarce. 2006 - “The new generation of remote sensing services for operational forest fire-fighting within GMES”, Valcarce, F., Gonzalo, J., Ramírez, J., Calle, A., Chuvieco, E., IAC-06-B1.4.03, Proceedings of the 57th edition of the IAC, Valencia. 2005 - “Remfiresat: Real Time Emergency Management Tool Via Satellite”, Gonzalo, J., Martín de Mercado, G., IAC-06-A.3.4, Proceedings of the 56th edition of the IAC, Fukuoka, Japón. 2002 “Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space: Planning a Coordinated International Effort”, edited by F.J. Ahern & J.G. Goldammer & C.O. Justice. pp 171-198, SPB Academic Publishing, La Haya, Holanda. ISBN: 90-5103-140-8. Contribution to chapter on “Prospective Sensors for Space-borne Fire Observation”. 2001 - “The FUEGO System Concept”, C. Martín-Rico, J Gonzalo, A. Mariani, W. Leibrandt, Acta Astronautica, Journal of the International Academy of Astronautics, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 45-56(12)
Languages: Spanish English Other associations expertise: Many programming languages: C/C++, VB, PIC/Atmel/Intel μC Assemblers, SQL