Nicolas Baghdadi is Research Director at IRSTEA in France. He is currently the scientific director of the French Land Data Centre (Theia). Mehrez Zribi is Director of Research at CNRS/France. He received Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the University of Toulouse, France. Since October 2008, he has been with the Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Toulouse. His research interests include land surface characterization for hydrology applications, remote sensing signal processing, and airborne microwave instrumentation. Mehrez Zribi has published 125 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has coordinated publication of 20 books about remote sensing for land surfaces. He serves as an editorial board member for several journals and coordinate several international and french research projects. He is deputy director of CESBIO laboratory.

• 1. Characterization of Soil Surface Properties Using Radar Remote Sensing2. Estimation of Soil Water Conditions Using Passive Microwave Remote Sensing3. Using Satellite Scatterometers to Monitor Continental Surfaces4. Optical Remote Sensing of Snow Cover5. Snow Characterization Using Radar Imaging6. Spatial Altimetry and Continental Waters7. Radar Altimetry for Monitoring the Antarctic Ice Sheet8. Monitoring Water Mass Redistributions on Land and Polar Ice Sheets using the GRACE Gravimetry from Space Mission9. Applications of GNSS-R in Continental Hydrology10. Energy Balance of Continental Surfaces and the Use of Surface Temperature11. Remote Sensing Data Assimilation: Applications to Catchment Hydrology12. Satellite Data Assimilation: Application to the Water and Carbon Cycles

Nicolas Baghdadi is Research Director at IRSTEA in France. He is currently the scientific director of the French Land Data Centre (Theia). Mehrez Zribi is Director of Research at CNRS/France. He received Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the University of Toulouse, France. Since October 2008, he has been with the Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Toulouse. His research interests include land surface characterization for hydrology applications, remote sensing signal processing, and airborne microwave instrumentation. Mehrez Zribi has published 125 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has coordinated publication of 20 books about remote sensing for land surfaces. He serves as an editorial board member for several journals and coordinate several international and french research projects. He is deputy director of CESBIO laboratory.

• 1. Characterization of Soil Surface Properties Using Radar Remote Sensing2. Estimation of Soil Water Conditions Using Passive Microwave Remote Sensing3. Using Satellite Scatterometers to Monitor Continental Surfaces4. Optical Remote Sensing of Snow Cover5. Snow Characterization Using Radar Imaging6. Spatial Altimetry and Continental Waters7. Radar Altimetry for Monitoring the Antarctic Ice Sheet8. Monitoring Water Mass Redistributions on Land and Polar Ice Sheets using the GRACE Gravimetry from Space Mission9. Applications of GNSS-R in Continental Hydrology10. Energy Balance of Continental Surfaces and the Use of Surface Temperature11. Remote Sensing Data Assimilation: Applications to Catchment Hydrology12. Satellite Data Assimilation: Application to the Water and Carbon Cycles