Nicola Pounder
Consultant at Assimila Ltd
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicola Pounder is a physicist and consultant with 11 years’ experience specialising in remote sensing and Earth observation, focused on extracting land and vegetation signals by combining sensors, datasets and physical models. She has applied data assimilation and radiative transfer modelling to derive vegetation biophysical parameters from satellite observations and integrated mechanistic crop models with remote sensing for crop yield and vegetation forecasting. Her postdoctoral work at the University of Reading contributed to algorithm development for ESA’s EarthCare mission through synergistic use of A-Train instruments and airborne lidar, bridging research and operational product needs. Nicola’s DPhil in particle physics from Oxford underpins a strong quantitative skillset in Bayesian analysis, multivariate likelihood modelling and bias correction across complex observational systems. Now consulting through Assimila Ltd, she translates advanced methodological research into practical solutions for climate, vegetation and agricultural monitoring. Colleagues describe her strength as turning cross-instrument complexity into actionable models that improve both scientific understanding and operational forecasts.
12 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 (20)
kalman8
python6
earth-observation6
github-api5
backup5
jupyter4
conda4
statistics4
gaussian-processes4
operating-system4
github3
raster3
monitoring3
package-management3
geospatial2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Assimila/KaFKA
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
Kascading Fast Kalman Assimilation
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 years 4 months
kalman
jgomezdans/KaFKA
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 13 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 1 month
assimilationkalman
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