Matthew Ofwono, MSc in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation – Integrated watershed modeling and Management, University of Twente (the Netherlands). BSc in Agricultural Sciences – Soil and Water Sciences. He is a GIONET Early Stage Researcher working on “Satellite derived information for drought detection and estimation of the water balance”. Matthew’s research interest is in the field of soil moisture mapping, flood and drought mapping, rainfall estimation from multi sensor instruments particular combining microwave instruments with MSG, Land cover and land use change, climate change monitoring and climate modeling. He was awarded for outstanding master thesis by the Faculty of Geo Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente.
Recent publications:
- ISI Journal Article Salama, M., Van der Velde, R., Zhong, L., Ma, Y., Ofwono, M., Su, Z., 2012.Decadal variations of land surface temperature anomalies observed over the Tibetan Plateau by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) from 1987 to 2008. Climatic Change, 1-13. PAPER
- Ofwono, M., Dabrowska-Zielinska, K., Nicolás Perea, V., 2012. Water balance in the Biebrza wetlands, Surface energy balance (SEBS) compared to GLDAS products. Poster presented at the Second Terrabites Symposium on Biosphere Modelling, 6-8 February 2012 ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
- MSc Thesis: Ofwono, M., 2010. Characterization of the effects of climate variation on land surface temperature and soil moisture through stochastic analysis of long term SSM/I observations over the Tibetan plateau. Enschede, ITC, p. 62. PAPER
