Sofia Ermida

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG1 – Climate variability processes and extremes
Email: snermida@fc.ul.pt 
Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

PhD in Geophysical Sciences, Remote Sensing

Scientific Informations

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0737-0824

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56096442500

Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/K-8885-2014/

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sofia_Ermida

Website: https://twitter.com/ermida_sofia


Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

Remote sensing; algorithm development; land surface temperature; land surface emissivity; land surface energy balance; land-atmosphere interactions; land use and land cover change; climate change

Top 10 Publications: 

  1. Ermida, S. L. ; Trigo, I.F.; Dacamara, C.C.; Jiménez, C.; Prigent, C.. 2019. “Quantifying the Clear-sky Bias of Satellite Land Surface Temperature using Microwave-based Estimates”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029354.

  2. Ermida, S. L. ; Trigo, I.F.; Dacamara, C.C.; Pires, A. C.. 2018. “A Methodology to Simulate LST Directional Effects Based on Parametric Models and Landscape Properties”. Remote Sensing 10: 1114. http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/7/1114.

  3. Ermida, S. L. ; Trigo, I.F.; Dacamara, C.C.; Roujean, J.-L.. 2018. “Assessing the potential of parametric models to correct directional effects on local to global remotely sensed LST”. Remote Sensing of Environment 209: 410-422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.066.

  4. Jiménez, C.; Prigent, C.; Ermida, S. L. ; Moncet, J.-L.. 2017. “Inversion of AMSR-E observations for land surface temperature estimation: 1. Methodology and evaluation with station temperature”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122: 3330-3347. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD026144.

  5. Ermida, S. L. ; Jiménez, C.; Prigent, C.; Trigo, I.F.; Dacamara, C.C.. 2017. “Inversion of AMSR-E observations for land surface temperature estimation: 2. Global comparison with infrared satellite temperature”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122: 3348-3360. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD026148.

  6. Ermida, S. L. ; Dacamara, C.C.; Trigo, I.F.; Pires, A. C.; Ghent, D.; Remedios, J.. 2017. “Modelling directional effects on remotely sensed land surface temperature”. Remote Sensing of Environment 190: 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.008

  7. Jiménez, C.; Michel, D.; Hirschi, M.; Ermida, S. L. ; Prigent, C.. 2017. “Applying multiple land surface temperature products to derive heat fluxes over a grassland site”. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 6: 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2017.01.002

  8. Dacamara, C.C.; Libonati, R.; Ermida, S. L. ; Calado, T. J.. 2016. “A User-Oriented Simplification of the (V,W) Burn-Sensitive Vegetation Index System”. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 13 (12): 1822-1826. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2016.2614319.

  9. Dacamara, C.C.; Calado, T. J.; Ermida, S. L. ; Trigo, I.F.; Amraoui, M.; Turkman Kamil F.. 2014. “Calibration of the Fire Weather Index over Mediterranean Europe based on fire activity retrieved from MSG satellite imagery”. International Journal of Wildland Fire 23: 945-958. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF13157.

  10. Ermida, S. L. ; Trigo, I.F.; Dacamara, C.C.; Göttsche, F.M.; Olesen, F.S.; Hulley, G.. 2014. “Validation of remotely sensed surface temperature over an oak woodland landscape — The problem of viewing and illumination geometries”. Remote Sensing of Environment 148: 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.016

Projects (10 most relevant): 

  • Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis – Continuous Development and Operations Phase 3 (LSA SAF CDOP-3)

  • CONsTRaining land-atmosphere exchanges using earth Observations (CONTROL)

  • Brazilian System Fire-Land-Atmosphere (BrFLAS)

  • Land Surface Temperature ESA CCI Project

  • GlobTemperature ESA DUE Initiative

  • Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis – Continuous Development and Operations Phase 2 (LSA SAF CDOP-2)

  • Fire – Land – Atmosphere Inter-Relationships: understanding the processes to predict wildfire regimes in Portugal (FLAIR)

Awards: 

  • IDL Prize: Best PhD Student, Instituto Dom Luiz

  • Prémio de Mérito Académico, Universidade de Lisboa

  • Bolsa Fulbright para Investigação