Ahmad Al Bitar
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère
French National Research Agency
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PERSONAL INFORMATION Ahmad Al Bitar 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse CEDEX9 Replace with telephone number 0033665855537 0033681116912 number State e-mail address ahmad.albitar@cesbio.cnes.fr State personal website(s) https://fr.linkedin.com/in/ahmadalbitar Replace with type of IM service Sex Male | Date of birth 10/09/1978 | Nationality French JOB APPLIED FOR POSITION PREFERRED JOB STUDIES APPLIED FOR PERSONAL STATEMENT Research Engineer: Project manager in charge of integration of remote sensing data in physical modeling WORK EXPERIENCE Project manager in Research and Engineering at CESBIO at CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique Elaboration of strategies for the integration of remote sensing data into physical modelling to provide high end products with high impact for the society and the scientifique community. - Strategies include: Machine learning, data assimilation technics, stochastic modelling, data driven modelling approaches, optimisation technics, physical modelling and forcing. - Products include: drought monitoring at regional scale, flash flood forecasting, water surface monitoring, crop yield and biomasse estimates, enhanced soil moisture products from multi-orbit retrievals, high resolution soil moisture products, Enhanced energy balance over Urban canopies. - Remote sensing tools include: Passive microwave in L-Band and C-Band (SMOS, AMSR-E, SMAP...), Radar RS (RadarSat-2, Sentinel-1...), Optical sensors (SPOT, Formosat, LandSAT8, Sentinel-2 ...), Altimeters (Jason-2 and futur SWOT mission). - Partners include: CapGemini, CNES, NASA, CNRS, Cetiom, ESA, INRA... - Communication of results through scientific papers, conferences and reports. - Organization of training courses on the use of RS data and modeling tools: SMOS Training course (1,2,3). - Contributing to the definition of new RS mission through science definition teams (SWOT SDT, SMOS ESL, Mistigri phase0). - Reviewer for scientific journals: RSE, RS, IEEE TGRS... - Projects include: TOSCA SMOS, SWOT SDT, TOSCA SWOT, ESA SMOS+Hydro, ESA SMOS ESL, CNES CATD, SPOT5Take5, AMBHAS, ANR Rue des Sols, CASDAR Tournesol, H2020 URBANFLUXES. Tutor at Alpbach Summer School (ESA)July 2016 - July 2016 (1 month) Invited Researcher at Indo French Cell for Water Sciences October 2015 - December 2015 (3 months) Exchange on research activities arround use of remote sensing data for agrohydrology Invited Researcher at National Council for scientific reseach Lebanon - Remote sensing center November 2012 - December 2012 (2 months) Visiting scientist to Remote sensing center in the framework of the IRD (Institut for Reseach for Development France) activities in Lebanon Visiting Research Scientist at Princeton University January 2012 - March 2012 (3 months) Visiting scientist at Terrestrial Hydrology Research Group (Prof. Eric Wood) Senior Research Engineer at Centre National d'Études Spatiales 2009 - 2011 (2 years) SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission) and CATDS (Centre Aval de Traitement des données SMOS) ground segment from CNES: Project Engineer at European Space Agency February 2010 - April 2010 (3 months) SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite) Commissioning phase. As member of the ESL (Expert Science Laboratory) for the SMOS mission I made: - an evaluation of the impact of calibration scheme on data availability and quality of retreivals - an evaluation of the impact of instrument polarization mode on quality of retrievals Page3 - a report on potential impact - an executive summary with recommendations on the best strategy for soil moisture retrieval Project Manager at CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique 2007 - 2009 (2 years) Project ANR SEVE Development of a coupled multi-process modeling platform for water and energy budget at the landscape scale. EDUCATION AND TRAINING Replace with dates (from - to) Replace with qualification awarded Replace with EQF (or other) level if relevant Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Hydrology and Water Resources Science, 2004 - 2007 Grade: with honors Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon Master’s Degree, Water Resources Engineering, 2003 - 2004 Grade: with honors Lebanese University - School of Engineering Engineer’s Degree, Civil Engineering, 1998 - 2003 International College of Beirut High School, 1996 ▪ PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue(s) French/Arabic Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C2 C2 C1 C1 C1 Replace with name of language certificate. Enter level if known. Replace with language C2 C2 C1 C2 C1 Replace with name of language certificate. Enter level if known. Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2 Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Communication skills ▪ Oral presentations in several international conferences, writing blog news on the SMOS blog, scientific papers in English and French. Organisational / managerial skills ▪ Leadership (currently in charge of a team of 4 people) ▪ Project management : more than 7 years’ experience in project management in research, followed several training courses on project management. (currently in charge of Level 4 products for SMOS mission at CNES CESBIO) Job-related skills ▪ Advanced computer programming skills, ▪ Digital competence SELF-ASSESSMENT Information processing Communication Content creation Safety Problem solving PROFICIENT USER INDEPENDENT USER PROFICIENT USER BASIC USER PROFICIENT USER Levels: Basic user - Independent user - Proficient user Digital competences - Self-assessment grid Replace with name of ICT-certificate(s) ▪ proficient programming skills in Matlab and Python ▪ proficiency in of GIS: ArcMap, QGis, ▪ very good command of office suite (word processor, spread sheet, presentation software) ▪ very good command of photo editing software Other skills 3D modelling using architectural sorftware Driving licence B ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ▪ Memberships: • ESA SMOS Mission Member of the ESL team 2009 to Present • Selected SWOT Mission Member of SWOT mission science definition team 2011 to Present • European Geophysical Union member 2011 to Present • American Geophysical Union Member. Publications "Al-Bitar, Ahmad; Ababou, Rachid; ",Random field approach to seawater intrusion in heterogeneous coastal aquifers: unconditional simulations and statistical analysis,Geostatistics for environmental applications,,,233-248,2005,Springer Berlin Heidelberg "Ababou, R; Al-Bitar, A; ",Salt water intrusion with heterogeneity and uncertainty: mathematical modeling and analyses,Developments in Water Science,55,,1559-1571,2004,Elsevier "Al Bitar, Ahmad; ","Modélisation des écoulements en milieu poreux hétérogenes 2D/3D, avec couplages surface/souterrain et densitaires",,,,,2007,Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse "Ababou, Rachid; Al-Bitar, Ahmad; ",Coupled Surface/Subsurface Flow Systems: Numerical Modeling,Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources,,,105-117,2008,Springer Netherlands "AL BITAR, Ahmad; ABABOU, Rachid; ",Studying the effect of Heterogeneity and Uncertainties of Salt Water Intrusion In Coastal Aquifers,,,,,2004, "AL BITAR, Ahmad; ABABOU, Rachid; ",Modeling of Salt Water Intrusion In Coastal Aquifers: Studying the Effect of Heterogeneity and Uncertainties towards Seawater Intrusion Remediation.,,,,,2004, "AL BITAR, Ahmad; ABABOU, Rachid; ",Coupled surface/groundwater flow via a Diffusive wave/Boussinesq model and undersharp interface saltwater intrusion conditions,,,,,2006, "AL BITAR, Ahmad; ",Salt Water Intrusion with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty: Mathematical Modeling and Analyses,,,,,2004, "AL BITAR, Ahmad; ABABOU, Rachid; ",Modeling of Salt Water Intrusion In Coastal Aquifers: Studying the Effect of Heterogeneity & Uncertainties,,,,,2004, "Kerr, Yann H; Waldteufel, Philippe; Richaume, Philippe; Wigneron, Jean Pierre; Ferrazzoli, Paolo; Mahmoodi, Ali; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Cabot, François; Gruhier, Claire; Juglea, Silvia Enache; ",The SMOS soil moisture retrieval algorithm,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,50,5,1384-1403,2012,IEEE "Merlin, Olivier; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Walker, Jeffrey P; Kerr, Yann; ","An improved algorithm for disaggregating microwave-derived soil moisture based on red, near-infrared and thermal-infrared data",Remote Sensing of Environment,114,10,2305-2316,2010,Elsevier "Al Bitar, Ahmad; Leroux, Delphine; Kerr, Yann H; Merlin, Olivier; Richaume, Philippe; Sahoo, Alok; Wood, Eric F; ",Evaluation of SMOS soil moisture products over continental US using the SCAN/SNOTEL network,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,50,5,1572-1586,2012,IEEE "Merlin, Olivier; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Walker, Jeffrey P; Kerr, Yann; ",A sequential model for disaggregating near-surface soil moisture observations using multi-resolution thermal sensors,Remote Sensing of Environment,113,10,2275-2284,2009,Elsevier "Merlin, Olivier; Rudiger, Christoph; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Richaume, Philippe; Walker, Jeffrey P; Kerr, Yann H; ",Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture in Southeastern Australia,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,50,5,1556-1571,2012,IEEE "Merlin, Olivier; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Rivalland, Vincent; Béziat, Pierre; Ceschia, Eric; Dedieu, Gérard; ",An analytical model of evaporation efficiency for unsaturated soil surfaces with an arbitrary thickness,Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology,50,2,457-471,2011, "Jacquette, Elsa; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mialon, Arnaud; Kerr, Yann; Quesney, Arnaud; Cabot, François; Richaume, Philippe; ",SMOS CATDS level 3 global products over land,Remote Sensing,,,78240K-78240K-6,2010,International Society for Optics and Photonics "Pan, Ming; Sahoo, Alok K; Wood, Eric F; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Leroux, Delphine; Kerr, Yann H; ",An initial assessment of SMOS derived soil moisture over the continental United States,IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,5,5,1448-1457,2012,IEEE "Al Bitar, Ahmad; Jacquette, Elsa; Kerr, Yann; Mialon, Arnaud; Cabot, Francois; Quesney, Arnaud; Merlin, Olivier; Richaume, Philippe; ",Event detection of hydrological processes with passive L-band data from SMOS,Remote Sensing,,,78240J-78240J-9,2010,International Society for Optics and Photonics "Merlin, Olivier; Rüdiger, Christoph; Richaume, Philippe; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mialon, Arnaud; Walker, Jeffrey P; Kerr, Yann; ",Disaggregation as a top-down approach for evaluating 40 km resolution SMOS data using point-scale measurements: Application to AACES-1,Remote Sensing,,,78240I-78240I-8,2010,International Society for Optics and Photonics "Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Schwank, Mike; Baeza, Ernesto Lopez; Kerr, Yann; Novello, Nathalie; Millan, Cristina; Moisy, Christophe; Richaume, Philippe; Mialon, Arnaud; Al Bitar, Ahmad; ",First evaluation of the simultaneous SMOS and ELBARA-II observations in the Mediterranean region,Remote Sensing of Environment,124,,26-37,2012,Elsevier "Merlin, Olivier; Escorihuela, Maria Jose; Mayoral, Miquel Aran; Hagolle, Olivier; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Kerr, Yann; ","Self-calibrated evaporation-based disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture: An evaluation study at 3km and 100m resolution in Catalunya, Spain",Remote sensing of environment,130,,25-38,2013,Elsevier "Sahoo, AK; Pan, M; Wood, EF; Al Bitar, A; Leroux, D; Kerr, YH; ",A Continental Scale Assessment of SMOS Derived Soil Moisture over the United States,AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts,1,,05,2011, "Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Novello, Nathalie; Moisy, Christophe; Guyon, Dominique; Lawrence, Heather; Schwank, Mike; Lopez, Ernesto; Millan, Cristina; Miernecki, Maciej; Kerr, Yann H; ",First evaluation of the SMOS observations over the VAS site: comparing different retrieval approaches,IGARSS (IEEE International Geoscience and remote Sensing Symposium) 2012,,,,2012, "Soldo, Y; Cabot, F; Rougé, B; Kerr, YH; Al Bitar, A; Epaillard, E; ",SMOS-NEXT: A New Concept for Soil Moisture Retrieval from Passive Interferometric Observations,EAS Publications Series,59,,203-212,2013,EDP Sciences "KERR, Yann H; CABOT, François; MIALON, Arnaud; RICHAUME, Philippe; KAZHAAL, Ali; BERTHON, Lucie; AL BITAR, Ahmad; MERLIN, Olivier; GRUHIER, Claire; LEROUX, Delphine; ",II Methodology,,,,,, "Kerr, Yann H; Waldteufel, Philippe; Cabot, François; Richaume, Philippe; Leroux, Delphine; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mahmoodi, Ali; Delwart, Steven; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Ferrazzoli, Paolo; ","SMOS, a summary of the most significant findings after two years and a half in orbit",IGARSS (IEEE International Geoscience and remote Sensing Symposium) 2012,,,,2012, "Jacquette, Elsa; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Kerr, Yann; Mialon, Arnaud; Quesney, Arnaud; Cabot, Francois; Richaume, Philippe; ",Overview of SMOS CATDS Level3 Soil Moisture products,"Proc. IGARSS2010., Honolulu, Hawaii",,,,2010, "Al Bitar, Ahmad; Jacquette, Elsa; Merlin, Olivier; Kerr, Yann; Mialon, Arnaud; Cabot, François; Richaume, Philippe; Quesney, Arnaud; Vergely, Jean-Luc; ",Multi-orbit inversion of SMOS surface soil moisture,"Proc. IGARSS2010, Honolulu, Hawaii",,,,2010, "Juglea, Silvia; Kerr, Yann H; Mialon, Arnaud; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Lopez-Baeza, Ernesto; Cano, Aurelio; Albitar, Ahmad; Millan-Scheiding, Cristina; Antolin, Maria Carmen; Delwart, Steven; ",Modelling soil moisture at SMOS scale by use of a SVAT model over the Valencia Anchor Station,,,,,2010, "Pardé, Mickaël; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Zribi, Mehrez; Kerr, Yann; Fanise, Pascal; Calvet, Jean-Christophe; Albergel, Clément; Albitar, Ahmad; Cabot, Francois; Demontoux, François; ",Retrievals of Soil Moisture and Optical Depth from CAROLS,Proceedings of the Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS),,,80-84,2011,The Electromagnetic Academy "Kerr, YH; Cabot, F; Richaume, P; AlBitar, A; Jacquette, E; Mialon, A; Gruhier, C; Juglea, S; Leroux, D; Mahmoodi32, A; ",SMOS SMAP SYNERGISMS FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE,,,,,, "Kerr, YH; Cabot, F; Richaume, P; AlBitar, A; Jacquette, E; Mialon, A; Gruhier, C; Juglea, S; Ferrazzoli, P; Mahmoodi, A; ",OVERVIEW OF SMOS RETRIEVALS OVER LAND,,,,,, "Juglea, S; Kerr, Y; Mialon, A; Lopez-Baeza, E; Cano, A; Calvet, JC; Albitar, A; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; ",Modelling SMOS brightness temperature by use of coupled SVAT and radiative transfer models over the Valencia Anchor Station,"EGU General Assembly. 2009-04-192009-04-24, Vienne, AUT",,,,2009,Copernicus Publications "Lopez-Baeza, Ernesto; Antolín Tomás, Carmen; Carbó Valverde, Ester; Cernicharo, José; Millán-Scheiding, C; Zribi, M; ","Towards validation of SMOS land products using the synergy between models, airborne and ground-based data over the Valencia anchor station. Definition of matching-up points to SMOS observations",,,,,2010,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "Kerr, Yann; Cabot, François; Boutin, Jacqueline; Reul, Nicolas; Pellarin, Thierry; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Albitar, Ahmad; Jacquette, Elsa; Berthon, Lucie; Guibert, Sarah; ",the Sience Products from the SMOS CATDS: From Level 2 to Level 4,,,,,, "Lawrence, Heather; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Richaume, Philippe; Novello, Nathalie; Grant, Jennifer; Mialon, Arnaud; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Merlin, Olivier; Guyon, Dominique; Leroux, Delphine; ",Comparison between SMOS Vegetation Optical Depth products and MODIS vegetation indices over crop zones of the USA,Remote Sensing of Environment,140,,396-406,2014,Elsevier "Lievens, H; Al Bitar, A; Cabot, F; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Dumedah, G; Hendricks-Franssen, HJ; Kerr, Y; Tomer, SK; Merlin, O; Pan, M; ",Assimilation of SMOS data for improving surface water management,,,,,2013, "Lievens, H; Pauwels, VRN; Al Bitar, A; Cabot, F; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Dumedah, G; Kerr, Y; Pan, M; Walker, J; Wood, E; ",SIMULATION OF SMOS BRIGHTNESS TERMPERATURES OVER THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI (USA) AND MURRAY DARLING (AUSTRALIA) BASINS,,,,,2013, "Pauwels, V; Lievens, H; Verhoest, N; Al Bitar, A; Cabot, F; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Drusch, M; Dumedah, G; Gascoin, S; Kerr, Y; ",On the Assimilation of Multi-Angular SMOS Data into a hydrologic model for improving surface water management,,,,,2012, "Kerr, Yann H; Richaume, Philippe; Albitar, Ahmad; Bircher, Simone; Cabot, François; Khazaal, Ali; Lawrence, Heather; Leroux, Delphine; Merlin, Olivier; Mialon, Arnaud; ",SMOS: Significant findings after three years an a half in orbit,Igarss 2013,,,,2013, "Berthon, Lucie; Mialon, Arnaud; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Cabot, François; Bircher, Simone; Jacquette, Elsa; Quesney, Arnaud; Kerr, Yann H; ","SMOS CATDS Level 3 products, Soil Moisture and Brightness Temperature: Presentation and results",EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,15,,9473,2013, "Kerr, Y; Leroux, D; Richaume, P; Wigneron, JP; Mialon, A; Mahmoodi, A; Bitar, A Al; Novello, N; Gruhier, C; Pellarin, T; ",Soil moisture retrievals: where are we?,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,14,,7860,2012, "Berthon, Lucie; Mialon, Arnaud; Bitar, A Al; Cabot, François; Kerr, YH; ",SMOS CATDS level 3 Soil Moisture products,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,14,,5456,2012, "Kerr, Yann; Mialon, Arnaud; Bitar, A Al; Leroux, Delphine; Richaume, Philippe; Gruhier, Claire; Berthon, Lucie; Novello, Nathalie; Rudiger, Christoph; Bircher, Simone; ",SMOS Soil moisture Cal val activities,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,14,,7557,2012, "Lievens, Hans; Verhoest, Niko; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Cabot, Francois; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Kerr, Yann; Pan, Ming; Wood, Eric; Pauwels, Valentijn; ","Simulation of SMOS brightness temperature observations over the Upper Mississippi basin, USA",EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,15,,7396,2013, "Leroux, Delphine J; Kerr, Yann H; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Bindlish, Rajat; Jackson, Thomas J; Berthelot, Beatrice; Portet, Gautier; ","Comparison between SMOS, VUA, ASCAT, and ECMWF soil moisture products over four watersheds in US",IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,52,3,1562-1571,2014,IEEE "Tomer, Sat Kumar; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Sekhar, Muddu; Merlin, Olivier; Bandyopadhyay, Soumya; Kerr, Yann; ","Synergy between passive (SMOS) and active (RADARSAT-2) microwave soil moisture over Berambadi, India",EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,15,,9848,2013, "Tomer, SK; Bitar, AA; Sekhar, M; Kerr, YH; Merlin, O; Bandyopadhyay, S; Mohan, S; ",Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E retrieved soil moisture with the field measured soil moisture data in South India,AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts,1,,1218,2010, "Kerr, Yann; Waldteufel, Philippe; Cabot, François; Richaume, Philippe; Jacquette, Elsa; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Mamhoodi, Ali; Delwart, Steven; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; ",SMOS first results over land,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,12,,8903,2010, "Rahmoune, Rachid; Singh, Y; Ferrazzoli, Paolo; Kerr, Yann; Richaume, Philippe; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Moisy, Christophe; ",SMOS L2 retrieval results over the American continent and comparisons with independent data sources,2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium-IGARSS,,,3419-3422,2013,IEEE "Pellarin, Thierry; de Rosnay, Patricia; Albergel, Clement; Abdalla, Saleh; al Bitar, Ahmad; ",H-SAF Visiting Scientist Program HSAF_CDOP2_VS12_02,,,,,, "Lievens, H; van den Berg, MJ; Verhoest, N; Al Bitar, A; Merlin, O; Tomer, SK; Cabot, F; Kerr, YH; Ming, P; Wood, EF; ",Analysis of scale effects in the assimilation of SMOS data into land surface models,,,,,2013, "Louvet, Samuel; Pellarin, Thierry; al Bitar, Ahmad; Cappelaere, Bernard; Galle, Sylvie; Grippa, Manuela; Gruhier, Claire; Kerr, Yann; Lebel, Thierry; Mialon, Arnaud; ",SMOS soil moisture product evaluation over West-Africa from local to regional scale,Remote Sensing of Environment,156,,383-394,2015,Elsevier "Al-Yaari, Amen; Wigneron, J-P; Ducharne, Agnes; Kerr, Yann; De Rosnay, Patricia; De Jeu, Richard; Govind, Ajit; Al Bitar, A; Albergel, Clément; Munoz-Sabater, Joaquin; ",Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates,Remote Sensing of Environment,149,,181-195,2014,Elsevier "Berthon, L; Mialon, A; Al Bitar, A; Cabot, F; Kerr, YH; ","SMOS CATDS Level 3 products, Soil Moisture and Brightness Temperature",AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts,1,,1429,2012, "Kerr, YH; AlBitar, A; Tomer, SK; Merlin, O; Pellarin, T; ",Addressing the water budget with SMOS,AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts,1,,1427,2012, "Tomer, SK; Al Bitar, A; Sekhar, M; Merlin, O; Bandyopadhyay, S; Kerr, YH; ","An Intercomparison of RADARSAT-2, SMOS and Field Measured Soil Moisture in the Berambadi Watershed, South India",AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts,1,,1425,2012, "Mialon, Arnaud; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Berthon, Lucie; Bircher, Simone; Cabot, François; Escorihuela, Maria-José; Leroux, Delphine; Merlin, Olivier; Novello, Nathalie; Pellarin, Thierry; ",Validation of SMOS level 3 soil moisture,"IGARSS 2012 Symposium. 2012-07-222012-07-27, Munich, DEU",,,,2012, "Al Bitar, Ahmad; Kerr, Yann; Merlin, Olivier; Cabot, François; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; ",Root zone soil moisture and drought index from SMOS,"Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop. 2013-07-012013-07-03, Frascati, ITA",,,,2013, "Rahmoune, Rachid; Ferrazzoli, Paolo; Singh, Yogesh Kumar; Kerr, Yann H; Richaume, Philippe; Al Bitar, Ahmad; ",SMOS retrieval results over forests: Comparisons with independent measurements,IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,7,9,3858-3866,2014,IEEE "Kerr, Yann; Mialon, Arnaud; Richaume, Philippe; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Pellarin, Thierry; ",SMOS main results in terms of soil moisture monitoring and related applications,"Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop., Frascati, Italy",,,,2013, "Kerr, Yann; Leroux, Delphine; Richaume, Philippe; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Mialon, Arnaud; Mahmoodi, Ali; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Novello, Nathalie; Gruhier, Claire; Pellarin, Thierry; ",Soil moisture: where are we?,"European Geosciences Union General Assembly. 2012-04-222012-04-27, Vienna, AUT",,,,2012,Copernicus Publications "Bircher, Simone; Richaume, Philippe; Mialon, Arnaud; Berthon, Lucie; Cabot, François; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Merlin, Olivier; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Balling, Jan; Skou, Niels; ","SMOS validation results from the HOBE site, Denmark","SMOS Land Applications Workshop ESA-ESRIN., Frascati, Italy",,,,2013, "Alyaari, Amen; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Ducharne, Agnes; Govind, Ajit; Kerr, Yann; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Jeu, Richard De; Rosnay, Patricia; Albergel, Clement; Sabater, Joaquin; ",Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture data sets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to modelled estimates,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,16,,56,2014, "Bitar, Ahmad Al; Kerr, Yann; Merlin, Olivier; Cabot, François; Choné, Audrey; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; ",Drought index driven by L-band microwave soil moisture data,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,16,,14340,2014, "Bitar, Ahmad Al; Kerr, Yann; Merlin, Olivier; Tomer, Sat; Molero, Beatriz; Chone, Audrey; Cabot, François; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Cherchali, Selma; ",Overview of SMOS L4 products under development and implementation at CATDS,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,16,,14152,2014, "Kerr, Yann; Richaume, Philippe; Mialon, Arnaud; Cabot, François; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Delwart, Steven; Drush, Matthias; Mecklenburg, Susanne; ",SMOS Mission completes 4 years in orbit,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,16,,7625,2014, "Al-Yaari, Amen; Wigneron, J-P; Ducharne, Agnes; Kerr, YH; Wagner, Wolfgang; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Reichle, Rolf; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Dorigo, Wouter; Richaume, Philippe; ",Global-scale comparison of passive (SMOS) and active (ASCAT) satellite based microwave soil moisture retrievals with soil moisture simulations (MERRA-Land),Remote Sensing of Environment,152,,614-626,2014,Elsevier "Alyaari, A; Wigneron, JP; Ducharne, Agnès; Kerr, Y; Al Bitar, A; de Jeu, R; Govind, A; de Rosnay, P; Albergel, C; Muñoz-Sabater, J; ",Performances of SMOS and AMSR-E soil moisture retrievals against Land Data Assimilation system estimates,"Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad), 2014 13th Specialist Meeting on",,,19-24,2014,IEEE "Miernecki, Maciej; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Lopez-Baeza, Ernesto; Kerr, Yann; De Jeu, Richard; De Lannoy, Gabrielle JM; Jackson, Thomas J; O'Neill, Peggy E; Schwank, Mike; Moran, Roberto Fernandez; ",Comparison of SMOS and SMAP soil moisture retrieval approaches using tower-based radiometer data over a vineyard field,Remote Sensing of Environment,154,,89-101,2014,Elsevier "Richaume, Philippe; Soldo, Yan; Anterrieu, Eric; Khazaal, Ali; Bircher, Simone; Mialon, Arnaud; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio; Cabot, François; Kerr, Yann; ","RFI in SMOS measurements: Update on detection, localization, mitigation techniques and preliminary quantified impacts on soil moisture products",2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,,,223-226,2014,IEEE "Al-Yaari, A; Ducharne, A; Kerr, Y; de Rosnay, P; de Jeu, R; Govind, A; Al Bitar, A; Albergel, C; Muñoz-Sabater, J; Richaume, P; ",Merging two passive microwave remote sensing (SMOS and AMSR_E) datasets to produce a long term record of Soil Moisture,2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,,,2269-2272,2014,IEEE "Al-Yaari, A; Ducharne, A; Kerr, Y; Wagner, W; Reichle, R; De Lannoy, G; Al Bitar, A; Dorigo, W; Parrens, M; Fernandez, R; ",Compared performances of microwave passive soil moisture retrievals (SMOS) and active soil moisture retrievals (ASCAT) using land surface model estimates (MERRA-LAND),2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,,,2463-2466,2014,IEEE "Lievens, Hans; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Verhoest, NEC; Cabot, Francois; De Lannoy, GJM; Drusch, Matthias; Dumedah, Gift; Hendricks Franssen, H-J; Kerr, Yann; Tomer, SK; ",Optimization of a radiative transfer forward operator for simulating SMOS brightness temperatures over the upper Mississippi basin,Journal of Hydrometeorology,16,3,1109-1134,2015, "Lievens, H; Al-Bitar, A; Cabot, F; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Drusch, M; Dumedah, G; Hendricks-Franssen, HJ; Kerr, Y; Tomer, SK; Merlin, O; ","Assimilation of SMOS observations to improve streamflow simulation in the Murray Darling basin, Australia",,,,,2014, "Kerr, YH; Richaume, P; Mialon, A; AlBitar, A; Bircher, S; Leroux, D; Cabot, F; Pellarin, T; Mahmoodi, A; Delwart, S; ",SMOS: AN OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 2 SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL,,,,,, "Kerr, Yann H; Richaume, Philippe; Wigneron, Jean Pierre; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mailon, Arnaud; Grant, Jennifer; Lawrence, Heather; Ferrazzoli, Paolo; Rahmoune, Rachid; Mahmoodi, Ali; ",SMOS RETRIEVALS OF VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH OVER A VARIETY OF LAND USE: TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS,,,,,, "Verhoest, Niko EC; van den Berg, Martinus Johannes; Martens, Brecht; Lievens, Hans; Wood, Eric F; Pan, Ming; Kerr, Yann H; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Tomer, Sat K; Drusch, Matthias; ",Copula-based downscaling of coarse-scale soil moisture observations with implicit bias correction,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,53,6,3507-3521,2015,IEEE "Mialon, Arnaud; Richaume, Philippe; Leroux, Delphine; Bircher, Simone; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Pellarin, Thierry; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Kerr, Yann H; ",Comparison of Dobson and Mironov dielectric models in the SMOS soil moisture retrieval algorithm,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,53,6,3084-3094,2015,IEEE "Kerr, Y; Jacquette, E; Al Bitar, A; Cabot, F; Mialon, A; Richaume, P; Quesney, A; Berthon, L; Wigneron, J; ","CATDS SMOS L3 soil moisture retrieval processor, Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD)","CESBIO: Toulouse, France",,,,2013, "Abbate, M; Acquistapace, M; Adam, E; Adelabu, S; Adjorlolo, C; Agathos, A; Aguasca, A; Aguilar, B; Aguilar, FJ; Aguilar, MA; ",2014 Index IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Vol. 7,,,,,, "Ababou, Rachid; Alastal, Khalil; Astruc, Dominique; Al-Bitar, Ahmad; Marcoux, Manuel; Wang, Yunli; ","Model coupling for environmental flows, with applications in hydrology and coastal hydrodynamics",La Houille Blanche,,2,9-24,2015,Société Hydrotechnique de France "Pauwels, VRN; Verhoest, N; Lievens, H; Martens, B; van Den Berg, MJ; Al-Bitar, A; Merlin, O; Kumar Tomer, S; Cabot, F; Kerr, YH; ",Impact of Different Data Assimilation Strategies for SMOS Observations on Flood Forecasting Accuracy,AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts,1,,08,2014, "Tomer, Sat Kumar; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Sekhar, Muddu; Zribi, Mehrez; Bandyopadhyay, S; Sreelash, K; Sharma, AK; Corgne, Samuel; Kerr, Yann; ",Retrieval and multi-scale validation of soil moisture from multi-temporal SAR data in a semi-arid tropical region,Remote Sensing,7,6,8128-8153,2015,Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute "Lievens, Hans; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Cabot, Francois; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Drusch, Matthias; Dumedah, Gift; Hendricks Franssen, Harrie-Jan; Kerr, Yann; Tomer, Sat Kumar; Martens, Brecht; ","Assimilation of SMOS observations to improve soil moisture and streamflow simulations in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia",EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,17,,4749,2015, "Parrens, Marie; Al-Bitar, Ahmad; Kerr, Yann; Cote, Rémi; Richaume, Philippe; Crétaux, Jean-François; Cherchali, Selma; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; ",Mapping water bodies over tropical bassins from SMOS L-band brightness temperature,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,17,,14006,2015, "Parrens, Marie; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Richaume, Philippe; Al-Bitar, Ahmad; Mialon, Arnaud; Wang, Shu; Fernandez-Moran, Roberto; Al-Yaari, Amen; Kerr, Yann; ",Global map of soil roughness using L-band SMOS data,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,17,,10773,2015, "Lievens, Hans; Tomer, S Kumar; Al Bitar, Ahmad; De Lannoy, GJM; Drusch, Matthias; Dumedah, Gift; Franssen, H-J Hendricks; Kerr, YH; Martens, Brecht; Pan, Ming; ","SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved hydrologic simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia",Remote Sensing of Environment,168,,146-162,2015,Elsevier "PARRENS, MARIE; WIGNERON, JEAN-PIERRE; RICHAUME, PHILIPPE; AL BITAR, AHMAD; MIALON, ARNAUD; WANG, SHU; FERNANDEZ-MORAN, ROBERTO; ALYAARI, AMEN; KERR, YANN; ",Globalmapsofthesoilroughnesseffect usingL-bandSMOSdata,,,,,, "Lievens, Hans; De Lannoy, GJM; Al Bitar, A; Drusch, M; Dumedah, G; Franssen, H-J Hendricks; Kerr, YH; Tomer, S Kumar; Martens, Brecht; Merlin, O; ",Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature products into a land surface model,Remote Sensing of Environment,180,,292-304,2016,Elsevier "Grant, JP; Wigneron, J-P; De Jeu, RAM; Lawrence, H; Mialon, A; Richaume, P; Al Bitar, A; Drusch, M; van Marle, MJE; Kerr, Y; ",Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices,Remote Sensing of Environment,172,,87-100,2016,Elsevier "Al-Yaari, A; Wigneron, JP; Kerr, Y; De Jeu, R; Rodriguez-Fernandez, N; Van Der Schalie, R; Al Bitar, A; Mialon, A; Richaume, P; Dolman, A; ",Testing regression equations to derive long-term global soil moisture datasets from passive microwave observations,Remote Sensing of Environment,180,,453-464,2016,Elsevier "Al Bitar, Ahmad; ",Modélisation des écoulements en milieu poreux hétérogènes 2D,,,,,2007, "Al Bitar, Ahmad; ","Titre de la thèse Modélisation des écoulements en milieu poreux hétérogènes 2D/3D, avec couplages surface/souterrain et densitaires",,,,,2007,INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSE "Ferrant, Sylvain; Bustillo, Vincent; Burel, Enguerrand; Salmon-Monviola, Jordy; Claverie, Martin; Jarosz, Nathalie; Yin, Tiangang; Rivalland, Vincent; Dedieu, Gérard; Demarez, Valerie; ",Extracting Soil Water Holding Capacity Parameters of a Distributed Agro-Hydrological Model from High Resolution Optical Satellite Observations Series,Remote Sensing,8,2,154,2016,Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute "Kalaoun, Omar; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe; Jazar, Mustapha; ","Impact of Demographic Growth on Seawater Intrusion: Case of the Tripoli Aquifer, Lebanon",Water,8,3,104,2016,Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute "Molero, B; Merlin, O; Malbéteau, Y; Al Bitar, A; Cabot, F; Stefan, V; Kerr, Y; Bacon, S; Cosh, MH; Bindlish, R; ",SMOS disaggregated soil moisture product at 1km resolution: Processor overview and first validation results,Remote Sensing of Environment,180,,361-376,2016,Elsevier "Lievens, H; van den Berg, J; Martens, B; Verhoest, N; Al Bitar, A; Merlin, O; Tomer, SK; Cabot, F; Kerr, Y; Pan, M; ",Impact of different data assimilation strategies for SMOS on flood forecasting accuracy,,,,,2014, "Alyaari, A; Wigneron, J-P; Ducharne, A; Kerr, Y; Wagner, W; Reichle, R; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Al Bitar, A; Dorigo, W; Parrens, M; ",Compared performances of microwave passive soil moisture retrievals (SMOS) and active soil moisture soil moisture retriavals (ASCAT) using land surface model estimates (MERRA-Land),,,,,2014, "Al-Bitar, A; Tomer, S; Lievens, H; Pauwels, V; Kerr, Y; Merlin, O; Verhoest, N; Pan, M; Wood, E; Van Den Berg, J; ",SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature assimilation into a Land Surface Model for water management: CDF-matching strategies and assimilation results,,,,,2014, "Lievens, Hans; Van Den Berg, Jewan; Verhoest, Niko; Al-Bitar, Ahmad; Merlin, Olivier; Tomer, Sat-Kumar; Cabot, Francois; Kerr, Yann; Pan, Ming; Wood, Eric; ",A multiscale data assimilation algorithm for SMOS,,,,,2014, "Parrens, Marie; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Richaume, Philippe; Mialon, Arnaud; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Fernandez-Moran, Roberto; Al-Yaari, Amen; Kerr, Yann H; ",Global-scale surface roughness effects at L-band as estimated from SMOS observations,Remote Sensing of Environment,181,,122-136,2016,Elsevier "Lievens, L; Al Bitar, A; De Lannoy, Gabrielle; Drusch, M; Dumedah, G; Hendricks, Franssen; Kerr, Y; Kumar Tomer, S; Martens, B; Pan, M; ","Assimilation of SMOS observations to improve hydrologic simulations in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia",,,,,2015, "Kerr, Yann H; Al-Yaari, A; Rodriguez-Fernandez, N; Parrens, M; Molero, B; Leroux, D; Bircher, S; Mahmoodi, A; Mialon, A; Richaume, P; ",Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation,Remote Sensing of Environment,180,,40-63,2016,Elsevier "Chrysoulakis, Nektarios; Heldens, Wieke; Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe; Grimmond, Sue; Feigenwinter, Christian; Lindberg, Fredrik; Del Frate, Fabio; Klostermann, Judith; Mitraka, Zina; Esch, Thomas; ",Urban Energy Budget Estimation from Sentinels: The URBANFLUXES Project,Mapping Urban Areas from Space,,,,2015, "Ababou, Rachid; Alastal, Khalil; Astruc, Dominique; Al-Bitar, Ahmad; Marcoux, Manuel; ",Archive Ouverte HAL-IRD,,,,,, "Hu, Tongxi; Zhao, Tianjie; Shi, Jiancheng; Wang, Tianxing; Ji, Dabin; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Peng, Bin; Cui, Yurong; ",Development and analysis of a continuous record of global near-surface soil freeze/thaw patterns from AMSR-E and AMSR2 data,,,,,, "Battude, Marjorie; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Morin, David; Cros, Jérôme; Huc, Mireille; Sicre, Claire Marais; Le Dantec, Valérie; Demarez, Valérie; ",Estimating maize biomass and yield over large areas using high spatial and temporal resolution Sentinel-2 like remote sensing data,Remote Sensing of Environment,184,,668-681,2016,Elsevier "Georgiana Stefan, Vivien; Merlin, Olivier; José Escorihuela, Maria; AïtHssaine, Bouchra; Molero, Beatriz; Ezzahar, Jamal; Er-Raki, Salah; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Kerr, Yann; ",Towards a robust evaporation-based disaggregation method of SMOS soil moisture by combining high-resolution shortwave/thermal and available meteorological data,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,18,,8258,2016, "Kerr, Yann; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Mahmoodi, Ali; Richaume, Philippe; Al-Yaari, Amen; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; ",Extreme events monitoring from space,EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,18,,8780,2016, "Battude, Marjorie; Bitar, Ahmad Al; Brut, Aurore; Cros, Jérôme; Dejoux, Jean-François; Huc, Mireille; Marais Sicre, Claire; Tallec, Tiphaine; Demarez, Valérie; ","Estimation of yield and water requirements of maize crops combining high spatial and temporal resolution images with a simple crop model, in the perspective of the Sentinel-2 mission",EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts,18,,14594,2016, "Landier, Lucas; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Lauret, N; Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe; Aubert, S; Mitraka, Zina; Feigenwinter, Christian; Parlow, Eberhard; Heldens, Wieke; Kotthaus, Simone; ",3D modeling of radiative transfer and energy balance in urban canopies combined to remote sensing acquisitions,"Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International",,,6738-6741,2016,IEEE "Kerr, Yann H; Mahmoodi, Ali; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mialon, Arnaud; Bircher, Simone; Molero, Beatriz; Richaume, Philippe; Cabot, Francois; Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio; Parrens, Marie; ",SMOS after six years in operations: First glance at climatic trends and anomalies,"Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International",,,1645-1646,2016,IEEE "Al-Yaari, A; Wigneron, J-P; Kerr, Y; Rodriguez-Fernandez, N; O'Neill, PE; Jackson, TJ; De Lannoy, GJM; Al Bitar, A; Mialon, A; Richaume, P; ",First application of regression analysis to retrieve Soil Moisture from SMAP brightness temperature observations consistent with SMOS,"Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International",,,1633-1636,2016,IEEE "Fernandez-Moran, R; Wigneron, J-P; De Lannoy, G; Lopez-Baeza, E; Mialon, A; Mahmoodi, A; Parrens, M; Al Bitar, A; Richaume, P; Kerr, Y; ",Calibrating the effective scattering albedo in the SMOS algorithm: Some first results,"Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International",,,826-829,2016,IEEE "Parrens, Marie; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Richaume, Philippe; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mialon, Arnaud; Fernandez-Moran, Roberto; Al-Yaari, Amen; O’Neill, Peggy; Kerr, Yann; ",Considering combined or separated roughness and vegetation effects in soil moisture retrievals,International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,55,,73-86,2017,Elsevier "Chrysoulakis, Nektarios; Heldens, Wieke; Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe; Grimmond, Sue; Feigenwinter, Christian; Lindberg, Fredrik; Del Frate, Fabio; Klostermann, Judith; Mitraka, Zina; Esch, Thomas; ",Urban Anthropogenic heat flux estimation from space: first results,Proceedings of the 36th EARSEL Symposium,,,248-248,2016, "Gastellu-Etchegorry, JP; Lauret, N; Yin, T; Aval, J; Kallel, A; Landier, L; Al Bitar, A; Guilleux, J; Jan, C; Chavanon, E; ",Modeling specular reflectance and polarization in DART model for simulating remote sensing images of natural and urban landscapes,"Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP), 2016 2nd International Conference on",,,517-522,2016,IEEE "Landier, Lucas; Lauret, N; Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Mitraka, Zina; Feigenwinter, Christian; Parlow, Eberhard; Heldens, Wieke; Kotthaus, Simone; Grimmond, Sue; ",Calibration of DART Radiative Transfer Model with Satellite Images for Simulating Albedo and Thermal Irradiance Images and 3D Radiative Budget of Urban Environment,Proceedings of the 36th EARSEL Symposium,,,120-121,2016, "Gastellu-Etchegorry, JP; Lauret, N; Yin, T; Landier, L; Al Bitar, A; Aval, J; Guilleux, J; Jan, C; Chavanon, E; ","Dart: Radiative Transfer modeling for simulating terrain, airborne and satellite spectroradiometer and LIDAR acquisitions and 3D radiative budget of natural and urban landscapes","Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International",,,3632-3635,2016,IEEE "Tomer, Sat Kumar; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Sekhar, Muddu; Zribi, Mehrez; Bandyopadhyay, Soumya; Kerr, Yann; ",MAPSM: A Spatio-Temporal Algorithm for Merging Soil Moisture from Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing,Remote Sensing,8,12,990,2016,Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute "Chrysoulakis, Nektarios; Feigenwinter, Christian; Al Bitar, Ahmad; Esch, Thomas; Del Frate, Fabio; Gabey, Andy; Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe; Grimmond, Sue; Heldens, Wieke; Klostermann, Judith; ",Anthropogenic Heat Flux Estimation from Space: The URBANFLUXES Project,,,,,2016, ANNEXES ▪ .