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Darren Ghent

Senior Research Fellow
EO Data-Model Evaluation

Research interests

Has an interest in thermal remote sensing and land-atmosphere interactions. Works on land surface temperature retrievals, validation and exploitation, including for climate science and heat-related resilience. This involves leading several international projects and work on the next generation of satellite missions for land surface temperature.

Recent publications

The Operational and Climate Land Surface Temperature Products from the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometers on Sentinel-3A and 3B. 2024-09

Retrieval Consistency between LST CCI Satellite Data Products over Europe and Africa. 2023-06

Towards a General Monitoring System for Terrestrial Primary Production: A Test Spanning the European Drought of 2018. 2023-03

The Seasonality of Surface Urban Heat Islands across Climates. 2022-05

Multisensor Thermal Infrared and Microwave Land Surface Temperature Algorithm Intercomparison. 2020-12

A New Approach to Defining Uncertainties for MODIS Land Surface Temperature. 2019-04

Summertime Aerosol Radiative Effects and Their Dependence on Temperature over the Southeastern USA. 2018-05

Contact details

National Centre for Earth Observation
Space Park Leicester
92 Corporation Rd
Leicester LE4 5SP