Jiarong Ma

Research Area:
Calibration of GNSS-R satellite products for soil moisture using drone-borne radar

Bio:

I earned a BSc in Physics from Northwest University, China, an MSc in Space Science from the University of Hong Kong, and an MPhil in Advanced Materials from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Currently, I am a PhD student in Agronomy and Bioengineering at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). As part of the GLITTER project, my research focuses on calibrating GNSS-R satellite products for soil moisture using drone-borne ground-penetrating radar (GPR). My broader research interests include subsurface imaging, electromagnetic modeling, surface roughness and vegetation scattering, and full-wave inversion techniques for nondestructive soil and material characterization.

Supervisor: Sébastien Lambot

Co-supervisor: Evert Slob