Team & Contacts
Team roles
Researchers and technical staff from King's College London (KCL), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Leicester (UoL), the Belgian Space Agency (BIRA), JB Hyperspectral, TerraRadTech and the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. (UniMIB) Europe-Brazil cooperation: Close collaboration with the Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA) relating to campaign planning, logistics, flight permissions and defining science objectives and observation strategies has been crucial to the preparation and implementation of the project.
Campaign involvement
- Airbone campaign: The British Antarctic Survey will provide the aircraft for the airborne activities and lead on all operational airborne matters. KCL, BAS and BIRA will provide the airborne instrumentation.
- Ground campaign: The European Space Agency, KCL, JB Hyperspectral, TerraRadTech, BIRA, University of Leicester and UniMIB will provide, install and operate fixed ground instrumentation in close collaboration with the Federal University of Para State (UFOPA) who will oversee the installation and infrastructure for these instruments
- Mobile /roving ground campaign: KCL will provide instrumentation to enabl roving observations concurrent with the airborne campaign
Project / Campaign Contacts
Science Leader: Prof. Martin Wooster | Campaign Science and Logistics Coordinator: Sarah Taylor
Project Manager: Khadijeh Rahmani
ESA Technical Officer: Dr Dirk Schuettemeyer