Simon Proud
Earth Surface Optical Scientist at European Space Agency - ESA
Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSimon Proud is an Earth Observation scientist at ESA’s ESTEC with a decade of experience applying remote sensing to satellite mission design, sensor development, and operational meteorology. He combines a PhD in Remote Sensing and a physics background with hands-on work extracting near-real-time thunderstorm and aerosol products from satellite data to inform science, policy and aviation decisions. At ESA he helps define capabilities for next-generation Sentinel-2/3 missions, translating science requirements into sensor and mission trade-offs. He also contributes to open-source tooling—improving the satpy AHI HSD reader to better calibrate, decompress and time-tag geostationary data—bridging research code and operational processing. Based in Noordwijk, he brings a pragmatic focus on low-cost sensor prototyping alongside large-mission science, with a track record of turning complex atmospheric signals into actionable products.
10 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Remote Sensing, Ph.D., Remote Sensing at Københavns Universitet / University of CopenhagenM.Phys, Physics with Space Science and Technology, M.Phys, Physics with Space Science and Technology at University of Leicester
English
Github Skills (6)
data-preprocessing10
satellite-data10
python10
data-processing10
netcdf9
hdf9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pytroll/satpy
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Python package for earth-observing satellite data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:131 reviews, 413 commits, 115 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Simon's commits primarily focus on modifying the AHI HSD (Himawari Advanced Himawari Imager High-speed Data) reader within the satpy package. They made various enhancements to the reader's functionality, including implementing a custom calibration, handling Bzip2 compressed files, and ensuring correct processing for the data's time metadata. The changes also included code cleanup, documentation improvements and testing. These modifications aimed to improve the data processing capabilities and accuracy of the AHI HSD reader.
satellite-imagerypythonsatellitedata-processingearth
simonrp84/PyCoxMunk
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Python package for estimating sea surface reflectance.
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 155 pushes in 4 years 6 months
reflectancepythonsurface-reflectancesatelliteearth-observation
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