Background

Suhyb Salama has received a PhD and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the faculty of applied science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (2003-1999). Since 2007 he has been working with ITC, University of Twente. His academic interests are in the areas of water resources, hydrology and earth observation. His research activities are focused on aquatic ecohydrology and earth observation. This broad term encompasses remote sensing of inland and coastal waters and ecosystems responses to climate and water cycle variations.

Education

PhD in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Hydraulics Laboratory, Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. 1999-2003.

Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Hydraulics Laboratory, Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. 1998-1999.

Bachelor in Civil Engineer, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Damascus University, Syria. 1989-1993.

Academic Assignments (2008-2010)

• Coordinator of block 3 in the Water Resource and Environment Management Master of Science educational program at ITC 2007-2009.
• From 2007 to 2010 Suhyb has supervised 21 MSc theses.

In 2009-2010 three of Suhyb�s students were awarded the following awards:

• 52 North price
• Zun Yin for his research on: Hydrological transport model calibration and integration by GUI in 52°North/ILWIS OS for the Dinkel River for supporting water quality studies.
• Amos Kabo-bah for his research on: Developing water quality modelling scheme in ILWIS Open for the Dinkel River in support of climate change and adaptation studies.
• Highest qualification for the WREM course 2008-2010 and nominated for the best thesis award
• Matthew Ofwono for his research on: Characterization of the effects of climate variation on land surface temperature and soil moisture through stochastic analysis of long term SSM/I observations over the Tibetan plateau.

In 2008 Suhyb participated in developing new educational curriculum for the water department.

Academic teaching (2008-2010)

1. Radiative Transfer and Atmospheric Correction, modules 1-5
2. Geophysical Data Analysis and Ground Water from Space , modules 6-8
3. Remote Sensing of Water Quality, module 10
4. Research Skills, module 11
5. Aquatic Ecosystem and Retrievals of Bio-geophysical Variables, module 12
6. Large Data Assimilation and Climate Tele-connection; module 13
7. Research in Water and Climate, modules 14-15
8. Capacity Building Courses on Quantitative Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle.

Activities in research

Suhyb Salama has been involved in the following research areas in the past 3 years:

1. Atmospheric correction for turbid estuarine and coastal waters,
2. Numerical inversion of semi analytical radiative transfer models for shallow waters,
3. Uncertainty analysis and stochastic modelling,
4. Optical-remote sensing and model integration,
5. Resolving the sub-scale variability in EO-field match-up sites.

Suhyb is currently supervising five PhD researches:

1. Water foot print and water information system,
2. Coral reef stress assessment from Earth Observation, Indonesia,
3. Characterization of suspended sediment in turbid water, Indonesia,
4. Tele-connection between the Tibetan plateau and the Indian warm pool, China,
5. Determination of the euphotic zone and eutrophication state of the Lake Naivasha, Kenya.

Activities in project services

Current projects at ITC

1. East Kalimantan (www.eastkalimantan.org)
2. CEOP-AEGIS
3. Dragon II
4. Tiger

Previous projects

• CHRIS/PROBA project (ESA): European space agency the objective was to improve marine dredging activities using earth observation data.
• CASI2000-2004 project (VITO): Flemish institute for technical research. The main efforts were concentrated on hyperspectral airborne image processing and enhancements.
• HySense project (DLR): German space center. The objective was developing an optical model for hyperspectral airborne imaging over turbid estuarine waters.

Major consulting assignments

2007 Spatial planning Flanders
Client: The Flemish authority
Description: Developing an instrument that facilitates strategic spatial planning in Flanders
Role: principal developer and system analyst.

2007 Nitrates Romania
Client: Ministry of Environment and Waters Management, Romania
Description: Diagnostic analysis in the nitrate potentially vulnerable zones
Role: principal developer and system analyst.

2006-2007 Sediment III
Client: Ministry of the Flemish community, department maritime Schelde
Description: Development of a GIS-based application to aid the evaluation system of dredging activities in the Schelde estuary
Role: principal developer and system analyst.

2005-2007 MobGIS
Client: Flemish ministry of transport
Description: Developing a generic GIS decision support instrument for transportation and mobility policy
Role: principal developer and system analyst.

2004 Traffic board detection
Client: TeleAtlas, Belgium
Description: Detection and recognition of traffic boards from video streams to aid car navigation systems using open source
Role: developer.

Publications

ISI Journal Articles

Salama, M.S., van der Velde, R., Zhong, L., Ma, Y., Ofwono, M. and Su, Z. (2012) Decadal variations of land surface temperature anomalies observed over the Tibetan Plateau by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager SSM/I from 1987 to 2008 : open access. In: Climatic change, 114 (2012)3-4 pp. 769-781. Full text | Full text

van der Velde, R., Salama, M.S., van Helvoirt, M.D. and Su, Z. (2012) Decomposition of uncertainties between coarse MM5 - Noah - Simulated and fine ASAR - retrieved soil moisture over Central Tibet. In: Journal of hydrometeorology, 13 (2012)6 pp. 1925-1938. Full text | Full text

Budhiman, S., Salama, M.S., Vekerdy, Z. and Verhoef, W. (2012) Deriving optical properties of Mahakam Delta coastal waters, Indonesia using in situ measurements and ocean color model inversion. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 68 (2012) pp. 157-169. Full text | Full text

Romaguera, M., Krol, M.S., Salama, M.S., Hoekstra, A.Y. and Su, Z. (2012) Determining Irrigated Areas and Quantifying Blue Water Use in Europe Using Remote Sensing Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) products and Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) Data. In: PE&RS = Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 78 (2012)8 pp. 861-873. Full text

Ambarwulan, W., Verhoef, W., Mannaerts, C.M. and Salama, M.S. (2012) Estimating total suspended matter concentration in tropical waters of the Berau estuary, Indonesia. In: International journal of remote sensing, 33 (2012)16 pp. 4919-4936. Full text | Full text

Philippart, C.J.M., Salama, M.S., Kromkamp, J.C., van der Woerd, H.J., Zuur, A.F. and Cadée, G.C. (2012) Four decades of variability in turbidity in the western Wadden Sea as derived from corrected Secchi disk readings. In: Journal of Sea Research, (2012) IN PRESS, 13 p. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S., Radwan, M. and van der Velde, R. (2012) A hydro - optical model for deriving water quality variables from satellite images HydroSat : a case study of the Nile River demonstrating the future Sentinel-2 capabilities. In: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 50-52 (2012) pp. 224-232. Full text | Full text

van der Velde, R., Su, Z., van Oevelen, P., Wen, J., Ma, Y. and Salama, M.S. (2012) Soil moisture mapping over the central part of the Tibetan Plateau using a series of ASAR WS images. In: Remote sensing of environment, 120 (2012) pp. 175-187. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S., van der Velde, R., van der Woerd, H.J., Kromkamp, J.C., Philippart, C.J.M., Joseph, A.T., O'Neill, P.E., Lang, R.H., Gish, T., Werdell, P.J. and Su, Z. (2012) Technical notes : Calibration and validation of geophysical observation models. In: Biogeosciences, BG : An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union, 9 (2012)6 pp. 2195-2201. Full text | Full text

Zhong, L., Su, Z., Ma, Y., Salama, M.S. and Sobrino, J.A. (2011) Accelerated changes of environmental conditions on the Tibetan plateau caused by climate change. In: Journal of Climate : open access, 24 (2011)24 pp. 6540-6550. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S., Melin, F. and van der Velde, R. (2011) Ensemble uncertainty of inherent optical properties. In: Optics express, 19(2011)18, pp. 16772-16783. Full text | Full text

Ambarwulan, W., Salama, M.S., Mannaerts, C.M. and Verhoef, W. (2011) Estimating specific inherent optical properties of tropical coastal waters using bio - optical model inversion and in situ measurements : case of the Berau estuary, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In: Hydrobiologia : open access, 658(2011)1, pp. 197-211. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S. and Su, Z. (2011) Resolving the subscale spatial variability of apparent and inherent optical properties in ocean color match - up sites. In: IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 49 (2011)7 pp. 2612-2622. Full text | Full text

Zhong, L., Ma, Y., Salama, M.S. and Su, Z. (2010) Assessment of vegetation dynamics and their response to variations in precipitation and temperature in the Tibetan Plateau. In: Climatic change, 103 (2010)3-4 pp. 519-535. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S. and Su, Z. (2010) Bayesian model for matching the radiometric measurements of aerospace and field ocean color sensors. In: Sensors : journal on the science and technology of sensors and biosensors : open access, 10 (2010)8 pp. 7561-7575. Full text | Full text

Zhong, L., Ma, Y., Su, Z. and Salama, M.S. (2010) Estimation of land surface temperature over the Tibetan Plateau using AVHRR and MODIS data. In: Advances in atmospheric sciences, 27(2010)5, pp. 1110-1118. Full text

Shen, F., Zhou, Y.X., Li, D.J., Zhu, W.J. and Salama, M.S. (2010) Medium resolution imaging spectrometer, MERIS, estimation of chlorophyll-a concentration in the turbid sediment - laden waters of the Changjiang, Yangtze, Estuary. In: International journal of remote sensing, 31 (2010)17-18 pp. 4635-4650. Full text | Full text

Romaguera, M., Hoekstra, A.Y., Su, Z., Krol, M.S. and Salama, M.S. (2010) Potential of using remote sensing techniques for global assessment of water footprint of crops. In: Remote Sensing : open access, 2 (2010)4 pp. 1177-1196. Full text | Full text

Shen, F., Salama, M.S., Zhou, Y.X., Li, J.F., Su, Z. and ... [et al.] (2010) Remote - sensing reflectance characteristics of highly turbid estuarine waters : a comparative experiment of the Yangtze river and the Yellow river. In: International journal of remote sensing, 31 (2010)10 pp. 2639-2654. Full text | Full text

Shen, F., Verhoef, W., Yunxuan Zhou, Salama, M.S. and Xiaoli Liu (2010) Satellite estimates of wide - range suspended sediment concentrations in Changjiang, Yangtze estuary using MERIS data. In: Estuaries and coasts, 33(2010)6, pp. 1420-1429. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S. and Shen, F. (2010) Simultaneous atmospheric correction and quantification of suspended particulate matters from orbital and geostationary earth observation sensors. In: Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 86(2010)3, pp. 499-511. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S. and Shen, F. (2010) Stochastic inversion of ocean color data using the cross - entropy method. In: Optics express, 18(2010)2, pp. 479-499. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S., Dekker, A.G., Su, Z., Mannaerts, C.M. and Verhoef, W. (2009) Deriving inherent optical properties and associated inversion - uncertainties in the Dutch lakes. In: Hydrology and earth system sciences (HESS) : open access, 13 (2009)7 pp. 1113-1121. Full text | Full text

Su, Z., Timmermans, W.J., van der Tol, C., Dost, R.J.J., Bianchi, R., Gómez, J.A., House, A., Hajnsek, I., Menenti, M., Magliulo, V., Esposito, M., Haarbrink, R., Bosveld, F.C., Rothe, R., Baltink, H.K., Vekerdy, Z., Sobrino, J.A., Timmermans, J., van Laake, P.E., Salama, M.S., van der Kwast, H. and ... [et al.] (2009) EAGLE 2006 : multi purpose, multi angle, and multi sensor in situ and airborne campaigns over grassland and forest. In: Hydrology and earth system sciences (HESS) : open access, 13 (2009)6 pp. 833-845. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S. and Stein, A. (2009) Error decomposition and estimation of inherent optical properties. In: Applied optics, 48(2009)26, pp. 4947-4962. Full text

Salama, M.S., Monbaliu, J. and Coppin, P. (2004) Atmospheric correction of advanced very high resolution radiometer imagery. In: International journal of remote sensing, 25 (2004)7-8 pp. 1349-1355. Full text | Full text

Zhong, L., Ma, Y., Ma, W., Fu, Y., Su, Z. and Salama, M.S.Remote Sensing of Land Surface Parameters in the Middle Reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River and Its Two Tributaries from AVHRR and MODIS Data : open access. In: Journal of the meteorological society of Japan : Ser. II, 90C(2012), pp. 75-86. Full text | Full text

Other Refereed Journal Articles

Ambarwulan, W., Mannaerts, C.M., van der Woerd, H.J. and Salama, M.S. (2010) Medium resolution imaging spectrometer data for monitoring tropical coastal waters : a case study of Berau estuary, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In: Geocarto International : a multi - disciplinary journal of remote sensing, 25 (2010)7 pp. 525-541. Full text | Full text

Book Chapters

Salama, M.S. (2012) Current advances in uncertainty estimation of earth observation products of water quality. In: Earth observation : e-book / ed. by R.B. Rustamov and S.E. Salahova. - Rijeka : InTech, 2012. ISBN 978-953-307-973-8 pp. 229-254. Full text | Full text

Romaguera, M., Salama, M.S., Krol, M.S., Su, Z. and ... [et al.] (2012) Remote sensing method for estimating green and blue water footprint. In: Remote sensing and hydrology : proceedings of a symposium, Wyoming, USA September 2010. / ed. by C.M.U. Neale and M.H. Cosh. Wallingford : International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-907161-27-8. (IAHS Publication 352) pp. 288-291. Full text

Su, Z., Roebeling, R.A., Schulz, J., Holleman, I., Levizzani, V., Timmermans, W.J., Rott, H., Mognard-Campbell, N., de Jeu, R., Wagner, W., Rodell, M., Salama, M.S., Parodi, G.N. and Wang, L. (2011) Observation of hydrological processes using remote sensing. In: Treatise on water science / ed. by P. Wilderer. - : Elsevier, 2011. ISBN 978-0-444-53199-5. pp. 351-399. Full text

Conference Proceedings (full papers)

Su, Z., Ma, Y., van der Velde, R., Dente, L., Wang, L., Timmermans, J., Menenti, M., Sobrino, J., Li, Z.L., Verhoef, W., Jia, L., Wen, J., He, Y., Wan, L., Li, W., Liu, Q.H., Yu, Q., Li, X., Zhong, L., Zeng, Y., Tian, X., Li, L., Qin, C., Timmermans, W.J., van Helvoirt, M.D., van der Tol, C., Salama, M.S. and Vekerdy, Z. (2012) Drought monitoring, prediction and adaptation under climatic changes. In: Proceedings of Dragon 2 final results and Dragon 3 kickoff symposium, 25-29 June 2012, Beijing / ed. by L. Ouwehand. Noordwijk: European Space Agency (ESA), 2013. ISBN: 92-9092-268-1. 13 p. Full text

Su, Z., Ma, M., Menenti, M., Sobrino, J.A., Li, Z.L., Verhoef, W., Jia, L., Wen, J., He, Y., Wan, L., Hiu, Q.H., Yu, Q., Li, Xin, van der Velde, R., Dente, L., Zhong, L., Zeng, Y., Tian, X., Li, L., Qin, C., Wang, L., van Helvoirt, M.D., Timmermans, W.J., van der Tol, C., Salama, M.S., Vekerdy, Z. and Ucer, M. (2010) Drought monitoring, prediction and adaptation under climatic changes. In: Proceedings of the symposium : Dragon 2 programme mid - term results 2008 - 2010, 17-21 May 2010, Guilin City, China / editor H. Lacoste-Francis. - Noordwijk : European Space Agency (ESA), 2010. - ; 19 cm. ISBN 978-92-9221-248-3. (ESA - SP : special publication, ISSN 1609-042X ; 684) 13 p. Full text

Salama, M.S., Verhoef, W., Monbaliu, J., Vekerdy, Z., Mannaerts, C.M. and Su, Z. (2007) Validation technique for remote sensing products of inland water quality. In: Proceedings of the AGRISAR and EAGLE campaigns, final workshop, 15-16 October, 2007. ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. ESA, 2007 (ESA Proceedings WPP-279) 8 p. Full text

Salama, M.S. and Monbaliu, J. (2004) Quantitative estimation of suspended particulate matter from CHRIS images. In: Proceedings of the 2nd ESA CHRIS/PROBA workshop on the exploitation of data products from the compact high resolution imaging spectrometer on board ESA's proba satellite, 28-30 April 2004, Frascati, Italy. 6 p. Full text

Salama, M.S. and Monbaliu, J. (2003) Quantification of suspended particulate matter from DAIS - ROISIS images : case - II waters. In: Proceedings of the 3rd EARSEL Workshop on imaging spectroscopy, 13-16 May 2003, Herrsching, Deutschland / ed. M. by Habermeyer, A. Müller and S. Holzwarth. pp. 423-438. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S. and Monbaliu, J. (2002) Atmospheric correction algorithm for CHRIS images application to CASI. In: Proceedings of the SPIE conference : Imaging spectrometry VII / ed. by S.S. Shen. Spie, 2002. ISBN 9780819445841. (SPIE proceedings series : 4816). pp. 120-131. Full text

Scientific and Professional Publications

Philippart, K., van Aken, H., van Dijk, M., Epping, E., Hiehle, M., Kromkamp, J., Noordeloos, A., Okel, L., van den Oever, A., Ridderinkhof, H., Salama, M.S. and ... [et al.] (2011) An integrated network for production and loss assessment in the coastal environment : IN PLACE. In: Annual report : 2010 / - Den Burg : Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), 2011. pp. 12-14. Full text | Full text

Presentations

Salama, M.S., Kromkamp, J.C., van der Woerd, H.J., Flomer, E., Wernand, M. and Philippart, C.J.M. (2013) Remote sensing of primary production in coastal waters : the Wadden Sea : powerpoint. Presented at: Remote sensing of the coastal zone, 25 January 2013, Hoog Brabant, Utrecht. 32 slides. Full text

Salama, M.S., van der Velde, R., van der Woerd, H.J., Kromkamp, J.C., Philippart, C.J.M., Joseph, A.T., O'Neill, P.E., Lang, R.H., Gish, T., Werdell, P.J. and Su, Z. (2012) Calibration and validation of geophysical observation models : abstract. Presented at : Ocean Optics XXI Conference, 8-15 October 2012, Glasgow, Scotland. 5 p. Full text

Salama, M.S., Kromkamp, J.C., van Dijk, M., Flomer, E., van der Woerd, H.J., Wernand, M.R., Ly, J. and Philippart, C.J.M. (2012) Remote sensing of primary production in the Wadden Sea environments. Presented at: NWO - ZKO Symposium, 7-8 November 2012, The Hague, Netherlands. 29 slides. Full text

Su, Z., Ma, Y., van der Velde, R., Dente, L., Wang, L., Menenti, M., Sobrino, J., Li, Z.L., Verhoef, W., Jia, L., Wen, J., He, Y., Li, W., Liu, Q., Yu, Q., Li, X., Zhong, L., Zheng, Y., Tian, X., Li, L., Qin, C., Timmermans, W.J., van Helvoirt, M.D., van der Tol, C., Salama, M.S. and Vekerdy, Z. (2011) Drought monitoring, prediction and adaptation under climatic changes : abstract. In: ESA - MOST Dragon 2 symposium, 20-24 June 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. 1 p. Full text | Full text

Salama, M.S., Dekker, A., Su, Z., Mannaerts, C.M., Stein, A. and Verhoef, W. (2010) Uncertainties of inherent optical properties in the Dutch Lakes : powerpoint. Presented at: 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 22-26 February 2010, Portland, Oregon. 23 slides. Full text

Salama, M.S. (2010) Uncertainty of inherent optical properties as derived from global products of ocean color data. In: Ocean Optics XX : 20th Ocean Optics Conference 2010, 27 September-1 October 2010, Anchorage, Alaska. pp. 1-6. Full text

Zhong, L., Ma, Y., Salama, M.S. and Su, Z. (2009) Assessment of vegetation dynamics and their response to variations in precipitation and temperature in the Tibetan Plateau : abstract. In: 2009 Dragon 2 symposium : abstract book, Barcelona, Spain, 22-26 June 2009 / ed. by Y.L. Desnos, Li Zengyuan. - Frascati : European Space Agency (ESA), 2009 pp. 96-97. Full text

Salama, M.S., Verhoef, W., Monbaliu, J., Vekerdy, Z., Mannaerts, C.M., Su, Z. and Abouali, M. (2007) Technique for validating remote sensing products of water quality : powerpoint. Presented at AgriSAR and EAGLE Campaigns Final Workshop, 15-16 October 2007, ESA, ESTEC, Noordwijk. 29 slides. Full text