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Spencer Farrar

Martín Labanda

María Marta Jacob

Sergio Masuelli

Sayak Biswas

Héctor Raimondo

Figure 14. Interactive Session Prize Paper Award recipients.

Labanda, María Marta Jacob, Sergio Masuelli, Sayak Biswas,
Héctor Raimondo, and Linwood Jones, and presented at the
2012 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2012 in Munich, IGARSS´12 Proceedings."
Spencer Farrar (S'07) received the B.S. & M.S. degree
in electrical engineering in 2008 & 2009 from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. He is currently
working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida. Since 2008, he
has been a Graduate Research Assistant with the Central
Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Central
Florida. His past research within the satellite remote sensing field has been analysis on rainfall products, simulation of MWR Geophysical retrievals, Hurricane Imaging
Radiometer (HIRAD) geophysical retrievals for 2010
GRIP flights. He has been involved in the GPM Intersatellite Calibration Working Group (X-CAL) performing
satellite calibration on multiple satellites since Summer
2010. His current dissertation topic is Cold Sky Analysis
of Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers.
Martín Labanda received his degree of Licenciate in
Physics from the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy and
Physics (FaMAF), National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina in 2011. From 2009, he has been working at the Argentina Space Agency (Comisión Nacional de
Actividades Espaciales, CONAE) as member of the SAC‐D
Calibration Group. Within the satellite remote sensing
field, he has been performing research on‐flight sensor
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ing especially in microwave radiometry. Currently, he is
contributing to the calibration of the microwave radiometer (MWR) and the infrared camera (NIRST).
Maria Marta Jacob received the Licenciate degree in
Physics from the Facultad of Matemática, Astronomía y
Física at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, in 2009. She is currently a Visitor Research Scholar
at Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory (CFRSL) at
the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. In this
position, she performs research in satellite microwave
remote sensing, related to calibration and geophysical
retrieval algorithm development from microwave radiometer data. Since 2009 she has been working at the
Argentine Space Agency (Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, CONAE), where she contributed in the
Flight Engineering Group of the SAC-D/ Aquarius Satellite and the Microwave Radiometer Inter-Satellite Radiometric Calibration (X-Cal) Working Group.
Sergio Masuelli received the B.S. degree and the Ph.D.
in Physics from the UNC (Córdoba National University), in 1994 and 2000, respectively. Since 2009 he is a
CONAE's system engineer working in the development of
geophysical applications for this sensor, in special L2 and
L3 Sea Ice products. In parallel he is an Associated Professor of the Master Program in Emergency Early Warning
and Response Space Applications, at of the Gulich Institute (CONAE, UNC, ASI); he teaches graduate courses in
Modelling, SAR Applications, Numerical Analysis and
Emergency Applications.
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