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MARIE PARRENS

Research Professor
Research team

Social, Environmental and Biodiversity Sciences

Areas of Research / Development / Consulting

Remote sensing in natural and agricultural environments

Subjects taught
  • Remote sensing
  • Physics
  • Mathematics
Publications
  • Parrens, M., Al Bitar, A., Frappart, F., Paiva, R., Wongchuig, S., Papa, F., Yamasaki, D., & Kerr, Y. (2019). High resolution mapping of inundation area in the Amazon basin from a combination of L-band passive microwave, optical and radar datasets. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 81, 58–71.
  • Szigarski, C., Jagdhuber, T., Baur, M., Thiel, C., Parrens, M., Wigneron, J. P., Piles, M. & Entekhabi, D. (2018). Analysis of the Radar Vegetation Index and Potential Improvements. Remote Sensing, 10(11), 1776.
  • Parrens, A. Al Bitar, F. Frappart, F. Papa, J.-P. Wigneron, Y.H. Kerr Mapping dynamic water fraction under the tropical rain forests of the Amazonian basin from L-band brightness temperature, Water, 9(5), 350, 2017
    Al Bitar, A. Mialon, Y.H. Kerr, F. Cabot, P. Richaume, E. Jacquette, A. Quesney, A. Mahmoodi, S. Tarrot, M. Parrens, A. Al-Yaari, T. Pellarin, J.P. Wigneron, The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature, Earth System Science Data, 9(1), 293–315, 2017
  • Fernandez-Moran, R., Wigneron, J.-P., De Lannoy, G., Lopez-Baeza, E., M. Parrens, Mialon, A., Mahmoodi, A, Bircher, S., Al Bitar, A., Al-Yaari, A., Richaume, P, Kerr, Y., A new calibration of the effective scattering albedo and soil roughness parameters in the SMOS SM retrieval algorithm, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 62, 27–38, 2017
  • J.-P. Wigneron, T. J. Jackson, P. O’Neill, G. De Lannoy, P. de Rosnay, J. P. Walker, P. Ferrazzoli, V Mironov, S. Bircher, J. P. Grant, M. Kurum, M. Schwank, J. Munoz-Sabater, A. Royer, A. Al-Yaari, A. Al Bitar, R. Fernandez-Moran, H. Lawrence, A. Mialon, M.Parrens, P. Richaume, S. Delwart, Y. Kerr, Modelling the passive microwave signature from land surfaces: a review of recent results and application to the L-band SMOS & SMAP soil moisture retrieval algorithms, Remote Sensing of Environment, 192, 238–262, 2017
  • Parrens, A. Al Bitar, R. Fernandez Moran, P. Ferrazzoli, J.-P. Wigneron, Estimation of the L-band Effective Scattering Albedo of Tropical Forests using SMOS observations IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2017
  • Parrens, Wigneron, J. P., Richaume, P., Al Bitar, A., Mialon, A., Fernandez-Moran, R., Kerr, Y. Considering combined or separated roughness and vegetation effects in soil moisture retrievals. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 55, 73–86, 2017
  • Y.H. Kerr, A. Al-Yaari, N. Rodriguez-Fernandez, M. Parrens, B. Molero, D. Leroux, S. Bircher, A. Mahmoodi, A. Mialon, P. Richaume, S. Delwart, A. AlBitar, T. Pellarin, R. Bindlish, T. J. Jackson, C. Rudiger, P. Waldteufel, S. Mecklenburg, J.-P.Wigneron Overview of SMOS Performance in Terms of Global Soil Moisture Monitoring After Six Years in Operation, Remote Sensing of Environment, 180, 40–63, 2016
  • Parrens, J.-P. Wigneron, P. Richaume, A. Mialon, A. Al Bitar, R.Fernandez-Moran, A. Al-Yaari, Y. H. Kerr. Global-scale surface roughness effects at L-band as estimated from SMOS observations, Remote Sensing of Environment, 181, 122–136, 2016
  • Wang, J.-P. Wigneron, L.-M. Jiang, M. Parrens, X.-Y. Yu, A. Al-Yaari, Q.-Y. Ye, R. Fernandez-Moran, W. Ji, Y. Kerr, Global-Scale Evaluation of Roughness Effects on C-Band AMSR-E Observations. Remote Sensing, 7(5), 5734–5757
  • Fernandez-Moran, J.-P. Wigneron, E. Lopez-Baeza, A. Al-Yaari, A. Coll-Pajaron, A. Mialon; M. Miernecki, M. Parrens, P. Salgado-Hernanz, M. Schwank, S. Wang, Y. Kerr, Roughness and vegetation parameterizations at L-band for soil moisture retrievals over a vineyard field. Remote Sensing of Environment, 170, 269–279.
Training
  • Bachelor’s degree in Physics
  • Master’s degree in Geophysics
  • PhD in remote sensing of continental surfaces
Professional experience
  • 2016–2017: Postdoc at CNES (Toulouse) on tropical hydrology
  • 2014–2015: Postdoc at CESBIO (Toulouse) on free water estimation using a microwave sensor (SMOS)
  • 2013–2014: Postdoc at INRA (Bordeaux) on the simplification of a radiative transfer model