Nicola Pounder
Consultant at Assimila Ltd
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicola Pounder is a physicist turned remote-sensing specialist and consultant at Assimila Ltd, with 11 years of experience applying data assimilation and radiative transfer modelling to Earth observation. She specialises in exploiting synergies between satellite sensors, datasets and physical models to observe land surface and atmosphere, deriving vegetation biophysical parameters and informing crop yield modelling. Her work spans combining mechanistic crop models with remote sensing and integrating climate data and forecasts into vegetation modelling, enabling improved forecasts and decision support. Previously, as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Reading, she contributed to ESA EarthCARE synergy products by deriving cloud optical properties from space and lidar, working with CALIPSO, CloudSAT and MODIS. She earned a DPhil and an MPhys from the University of Oxford and is based in Reading, United Kingdom. She brings a rare blend of theoretical rigor and practical implementation, bridging science and industry to deliver actionable insights from Earth observation data.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil, Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil at University of Oxford
Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jgomezdans/KaFKA
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 13 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 1 month
assimilationkalman
Assimila/KaFKA
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
Kascading Fast Kalman Assimilation
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 years 4 months
assimilationkafkafaustkalman
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