Marco Vargas
Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division
Environmental Monitoring Branch
Recent Publications
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Marco Vargas received a B.E.
degree in Electrical Engineering in 2002, an M.S. in 2004, and a PhD in
Electrical Engineering in 2007, specializing in remote sensing, all from
the City University of New York. He joined NOAA/NESDIS in 2006 through
the NOAA Graduate Sciences Program.
Dr. Vargas' research interests include satellite remote sensing of
vegetation, monitoring vegetation condition, satellite remote sensing of
ocean waters, ocean color algorithms, atmospheric correction, and
retrieval of bio-optical parameters from satellite data.
Marco is currently working in the improvement of global vegetation
data sets from AVHRR. His tasks include improvement of the data in post-
volcanoes period, data adjustment for sensor degradation and satellites
orbital drift, re-analysis, re-calculation and validation of
climatology. Dr Vargas is also working in the development of a technique
to document phenology of phytoplankton biomass from satellite ocean
color observations.
Recent Presentations
Improvement of NDVI time series using a statistical technique to reduce
the negative effect on NDVI caused by the volcanic eruptions of El Chichon
(1982) and Mount Pinatubo (1991). Presented at the CEOS-NOAA Workshop on
AVHRR plus HIRS Climate Data Records, November 17-19, 2008, Camp Springs,
MD.
Phytoplankton Phenology from Satellite Ocean Color Observations.
Presented at the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Florida on March
06, 2008.
Most Recent Publications
Vargas, M., F. Kogan, and W. Guo (2009), Empirical normalization for
the effect of volcanic stratospheric aerosols on AVHRR NDVI, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 36, L07701, doi:10.1029/2009GL037717.
Vargas, M., C. W. Brown, and M. R. P. Sapiano (2009), Phenology of
marine phytoplankton from satellite ocean color measurements (PDF, 590KB), Geophys.
Res. Lett., 36, L01608, doi:10.1029/2008GL036006.
Oo, M., Vargas, M., Gilerson, A., Gross, B., Moshary, F., and S. Ahmed,
2008: Improving atmospheric correction for highly productive coastal
waters using the short wave infrared retrieval algorithm with water-
leaving reflectance constraints at 412 nm. Applied Optics, 47,
pp. 3846-3859.
Gilerson, A., Zhou, J., Vargas, M., Gross, B., Moshary, F., and S.
Ahmed, 2006: Impact of particulate scattering in coastal waters on
reflectance spectra: simulations and Chesapeake Bay measurements, OCEANS
2006, doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306937.
E-mail: Marco.Vargas@noaa.gov
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