Marco VargasSatellite Meteorology and Climatology DivisionEnvironmental Monitoring Branch
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 PresentationsImprovement 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 PublicationsVargas, 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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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.