Murphy, Emilie

Bio

Emilie Murphy is a Senior Faculty Specialist. She started her career as a Research Assistant at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment, located on “Plateau de Saclay” (called the “European Silicon Valley” according to Wikipedia) in the suburb of Paris, France, where she worked on Climate Change and Vegetation Cycle science projects using the satellite instruments data of PARASOL-POLDER, AVHRR and MODIS.

In 2009, she had the opportunity to join the Department of Geographical Sciences with the team of Professor Eric Vermote to pursue her research working on AVHRR and MODIS satellite data processing. This supported some technical scientific projects for calibration, validation of satellites products and atmospheric corrections.  

After over fifteen years of experience, Emilie still enjoys her research with the SALSA Team, working on data analysis that greatly contribute to a multitude of scientific projects and associated instruments, mainly for NASA with her team leader Professor Eric Vermote.

She has recently extended her research skills and knowledge working on crop yield forecasting model (ARYA) with the leadership of her team colleague, Natacha Kalecinski, Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Geographical Sciences.

Degrees

  • Sciences, Technology and Environment Systems, University of Toulon-Var, France - M.S.

  • Physics, University of Toulon-Var, France - B.S.

Areas of Interest

  • Land Surface Reflectances Applications
  • MODIS Calibration and Validation products research
  • Atmospheric corrections

Research Topics

  • Geospatial Information Science and Remote Sensing
  • Land Cover - Land Use Change
  • Roger, J.-C., Vermote, E.F., Skakun, S., Murphy, E., Dubovick, O., Kalecinski, N., Korgo, B., Holben, B. (2022). Aerosol models from the AERONET database: application to surface reflectance validation. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol. 15, Issue 5, p. 1123–1144. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1123-2022

  • Franch, B., Vermote, E. F., Skakun, S., Roger, J.-C., Becker-Reshef, I., Murphy, E., Justice, C. (2019). Remote sensing based yield monitoring: Application to winter wheat in United States and Ukraine. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 76, April 2019, p. 112-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.11.012 

  • Becker-Reshef, I., Franch, B., Barker, B., Murphy, E., Santamaria-Artigas, A., Humber, M., Skakun, S., Vermote, E.F. (2018). Prior Season Crop Type Masks for Winter Wheat Yield Forecasting: A US Case Study. Remote Sensing, Vol. 10, Issue 10, p.1659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.11.012

  • Franch, B., Vermote, E. F., Roger, J. C., Murphy, E., Becker-Reshef, I., Justice, C., ... & Baret, F. (2017). A 30+ Year AVHRR Land Surface Reflectance Climate Data Record and Its Application to Wheat Yield Monitoring. Remote Sensing, Vol. 9, Issue 3, p. 296. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9030296

  • Bréon, F.-M., Vermote, E.F., Murphy, E. F., Franch, B. (2015). Measuring the Directional Variations of Land Surface Reflectance From MODIS. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 53, issue 8, p. 4638-4649. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7065265

  • Sobrino, J. A., Franch, B., Oltra-Carrió, R., Vermote, E. F., Fédèle, E. (2013). Evaluation of the MODIS Albedo product over a heterogeneous agricultural area. International journal of remote sensing, Vol. 34, issue 15, p. 5530-5540. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2013.792968

  • Franch, B., Vermote, E. F., Sobrino, J. A., Fédèle, E. (2013). Analysis of directional effects on atmospheric correction. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 128, p. 276-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.018

  • Maignan, F., Bréon, F. M., Fédèle, E., & Bouvier, M. (2009). Polarized reflectances of natural surfaces: Spaceborne measurements and analytical modeling. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 113, Issue 12, p. 2642-2650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2009.07.022

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