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Bruno Aragon

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Mail Stop: 233-300

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

323-861-9763

Fax:

818-354-3223

Curriculum Vitae:

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Member of:

Carbon Cycle And Ecosystems

Biography

Dr. Bruno Aragon is an Environmental engineer with a focus on estimating evapotranspiration at high spatiotemporal resolutions. Bruno joined JPL as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow working with Dr. Joshua Fisher. Bruno’s research aims to 1) better understand the response of ecosystem’s to water availability at high spatiotemporal resolutions, 2) establish a link between evapotranspiration, ecology and biology, and 3) identify ecosystem vulnerabilities and responses to a changing environment. A core component of the research is to fuse data from commercial and government Earth observation missions such as ECOSTRESS, Sentinel-2, Landsat 8, and Planet/MAXAR.

Education

  • Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (2021)
  • M.S. Energy Management and Renewable Sources, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (2016)
  • M.S. Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (2015)
  • B.S. Mechatronics Engineering, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (2011)

Professional Experience

  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in high spatiotemporal resolution evapotranspiration analysis at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, USA (2021-Present)
  • High School Physics teacher at Universidad Latina, Morelos, Mexico (2013-2014).
  • Project Engineer at HERSA, Morelos, Mexico (2011-2012)

Research Interests

  • Evapotranspiration
  • Surface Hydrology
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Analysis

Selected Awards

  • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (2021-2023)
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Fellowship (2014-2021)
  • Outstanding Student Presentation Award, American Geophysical Union (Fall Meeting, 2018)

Selected Publications

  1. Tu, Y.-H., Johansen, K., Aragon, B., Stutsel, B. M., Angel, Y., Camargo, O. A. L., Al-Mashharawi, S. K. M., Jiang, J., Ziliani, M. G., & McCabe, M. F. (2021). Combining Nadir, Oblique, and Façade Imagery Enhances Reconstruction of Rock Formations Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1-13. doi:10.1109/tgrs.2020.3047435
  2. López Valencia, O. M., Johansen, K., Aragon, B., Li, T., Houborg, R., Malbeteau, Y., et al. (2020). Mapping groundwater abstractions from irrigated agriculture: big data, inverse modeling, and a satellite–model fusion approach. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(11), 5251-5277. doi:10.5194/hess-24-5251-2020
  3. Aragon, B., Johansen, K., Parkes, S., Malbeteau, Y., Al- Mashharawi, S., Al-Amoudi, T., Andrade, C. F., Turner, D., Lucieer, A., & McCabe, M. F. (2020). A Calibration Procedure for Field and UAV-Based Uncooled Thermal Infrared Instruments. Sensors (Basel), 20(11). doi:10.3390/s20113316
  4. Fisher, J. B., Lee, B., Purdy, A. J., Halverson, G. H., Dohlen, M. B., Cawse-Nicholson, K., Wang, A., Anderson, R. G., Aragon, B., et al. (2020). ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station. Water Resources Research, 56(4). doi:10.1029/2019wr026058
  5. Johansen, K., Morton, M. J. L., Malbeteau, Y. M., Aragon, B., Al- Mashharawi, S. K., Ziliani, M. G., et al. (2019). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Phenotyping Using Morphometric and Spectral Analysis Can Quantify Responses of Wild Tomato Plants to Salinity Stress. Front Plant Sci, 10, 370. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00370
  6. Malbéteau, Y., Parkes, S., Aragon, B., Rosas, J., & McCabe, M. (2018). Capturing the Diurnal Cycle of Land Surface Temperature Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Remote Sensing, 10(9). doi:10.3390/rs10091407
  7. Aragon, B., Houborg, R., Tu, K., Fisher, J. B., & McCabe, M. (2018). CubeSats Enable High Spatiotemporal Retrievals of Crop-Water Use for Precision Agriculture. Remote Sensing, 10(12), 1867. doi:10.3390/rs10121867
  8. McCabe, M. F., Aragon, B., Houborg, R., & Mascaro, J. (2017). CubeSats in Hydrology: Ultrahigh-Resolution Insights Into Vegetation Dynamics and Terrestrial Evaporation. Water Resources Research, 53(12), 10017-10024. doi:10.1002/2017wr022240

Projects

ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)