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Laura Carrea

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
EO Data-Model Evaluation

Research interests

I am interested in thermal characterisation and dynamic of coastal and inland waters and on their influence on climate and local weather. I work on coastal and inland water temperature retrieval from satellite creating surface water temperature climate data records for global and local applications such as lake model validation/calibration, response of inland waters to a warming climate and its impact on the ecology, limnology and hydrology of these water bodies.

Recent publications

Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies. 2023-01-14

Lake mask and distance to land dataset of 2024 lakes for the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Lakes v2. 2022-04-28

State of the Climate in 2020. 2021-08-01

State of the Climate in 2019. 2020-08-01

Impact of the 2018 European heatwave on lake surface water temperature. 2020

The EUSTACE project: Delivering global, daily information on surface air temperature. 2020

State of the climate in 2018. 2019

State of the climate in 2017. 2018

Discrete numerical approach to the fredholm integral method for evaluating scattering by irregular dielectric particles. 2017

Geometric Polarimetry – Part II: The Antenna Height Spinor and the Bistatic Scattering Matrix. 2017

An approximate dynamic programming approach for improving accuracy of lossy data compression by Bloom filters. 2016

Mediator-assisted multi-source routing in information-centric networks. 2016

GloboLakes: high-resolution global limnology dataset v1. 2015-07-21

Datasets related to in-land water for limnology and remote sensing applications: distance-to-land, distance-to-water, water-body identifier and lake-centre co-ordinates. 2015

Concepts for a geostationary-like polar mission. 2014

Geometric polarimetry – Part I: Sl. 2014

Optimized hash for network path encoding with minimized false positives. 2014

Clean-slate information-centric publish subscribe networks. 2012

On mathematical and physical principles of transformations of the coherent radar backscatter matrix. 2012

A qualitative method to optimise false positive occurrences for the in-packet Bloom filter forwarding mechanism. 2011

Application of geometric polarization to invariance properties in bistatic scattering. 2005

Geometric interpretation of the characteristic polarizations. 2004

The polar decomposition of the scattering matrix applied to the polarimetric image of the guard-rail. 2002

Polarimetric SAR processing using the polar decomposition of the scattering matrix. 2001

Geometrical representation of a monochromatic electromagnetic wave using the tangential vector approach. 2000

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Contact details

University of Reading

0118 987 5123