Miguel Roman
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| Born | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican/American |
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University of Puerto Rico Cornell University Boston University |
| Occupation | NASA Scientist |
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Miguel Román, is a research physical scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.
A major focus of Román's work is the quantification of uncertainty in long-term satellite measurements of the Earth's surface at both moderate and high spatial resolutions. Román has developed a combination of global quality assessment and validation techniques that include visible, near-infrared, and multi-angular imagery and measurements acquired from in-situ and semi-autonomous airborne platforms. His efforts to improve narrowband reflectance anisotropy models to estimate the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) of land surfaces have led to major advancements in the estimation of terrestrial essential climate variables routinely used to monitor human activity patterns and natural disturbances from satellite platforms. As a lead member of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Land Discipline teams, Román's research has enabled scientists to quantify how much of the variations in satellite observations are due to sensor performance, terrain, and/or geometry (view angle) effects; a critical factor when satellite measurements are used to drive policy related to global change. Most recently, Dr. Román’s research has focused on examining global variations in energy service demand using data from the VIIRS Day-Night Band (DNB) on board Suomi-NPP.
Miguel Román was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After he graduated from CROEM high school, he attended the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus and, in 2004, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Román continued his academic studies at Cornell University, earning a Master's degree in Systems Engineering (2005). In 2009, he received a doctorate in Remote Sensing from Boston University. While studying at BU, Román did his dissertation research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, as part of NASA's Harriett G. Jenkins Fellowship and the Graduate Student Research Programs.
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