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Research and innovation<\/h1><\/div>

The radiative transfer is at the heart of HYGEOS research and development activities. We have an in-depth understanding of the physical processes<\/strong> governing the interactions of solar radiation with atmospheric components, water, vegetation and soil. Associated with high programming skills and up-to-date technologies, we develop innovative methodologies<\/strong> to process ground-based and satellite sensors data to retrieve Earth surface and atmospheric physical properties.<\/p>\n

The continuous and long-term investment of HYGEOS in research and innovation is translated through numerous scientific publications<\/strong><\/a> in peer-reviewed journals. It also allows to develop highly-performing tools like Polymer<\/strong><\/a>, SMART-G<\/strong><\/a> and SMAC-CL.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

Examples of current research topics<\/h2><\/div>

In her air quality<\/strong><\/a> activities, HYGEOS works on an integrated approach to enhance the modelling of second organic aerosols. <\/strong>These latter\u00a0are produced via the oxidation of intermediate and anthropogenic volatile organic compounds. A new desert dust and sea-salt aerosol emission scheme<\/strong>, based upon machine learning technique<\/strong>, is also in development.<\/p>\n

In her water quality<\/strong><\/a> activities, HYGEOS works on the improvement of the atmospheric corrections over transitional waters<\/strong> (estuaries, lagoons and deltas) by taking into account the benthic and adjacency effects<\/strong>. The retrieval of seafloor reflectance and of a satellite-derived bathymetry<\/strong> is also investigated, in particular to characterize the presence of underwater seaweeds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Sentinel-2 image acquired over the Venice lagoon on 15th<\/sup> April 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Map of the bathymetry (in m)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Map of the seabed albedo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Training<\/h2><\/div>

Thanks to close links with academic world and research institutes, HYGEOS invests in supervising doctoral students. Fourth PhDs were defended at HYGEOS.<\/strong> One was at the origin of the POLYMER<\/a> algorithm. The last one<\/a>\u00a0studied the interactions between the solar radiation on one hand, and the atmosphere, the ground surface and any objects on the other hand. It contributed to the development of the SolaRes service.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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