Matthew McCabe

Senior Lecturer, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales

A leading expert in hydrological remote sensing, Dr Matthew McCabe has extensive international research experience including work with NASA.

Dr McCabe's overriding research interest is in observation and modelling of the Earth's coupled energy and water cycles. He is respected in diverse areas of Earth observation and is recognised for his research involving multi-scale and multi-satellite observation and modelling.

His achievements include publishing the first validated soil moisture results from the NASA-AMSR-E satellite and undertaking the first detailed scale analysis of evapotranspiration prediction from remote sensing.

He also recently developed a new technique for monitoring ice-sheet melting in Greenland, providing an advanced observational capacity for climate predictions.

His most recent contribution is the development of a conceptual framework to assess remote observations based on their hydrological consistency, advancing the field of water and energy cycle analysis and application using remote sensing data.

Dr McCabe’s expertise in evapotranspiration estimation will be used in NCGRT’s program on Groundwater-Vegetation-Atmosphere Interactions. He has extensive experience in diverse field scale hydrological measurement, running field campaigns and commissioning scientific equipment for hydrometeorological measurements.

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