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Ralf's biography exhibits a proven track record of research and software development on multinational Earth Observation projects and a solid academic background in physics and astrophysics. He is an expert in quantitative spectroscopy, optimisation, and inverse problem theory. In more than ten years of professional experience in Earth Observation he has worked in different contexts of concurrent projects, within inter-disciplinary and multi-lingual teams. His particular interest is the synthesis of theory and observation.

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Employment (6)

Brockmann Consult GmbH: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2019-11-01 to present | Research associate and consultant (Geoinformation Services)
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FastOpt GmbH: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2015-07-01 to 2019-10-31 | Research associate and consultant
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Brockmann Consult GmbH: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2006-03-01 to 2015-06-30 | Senior software developer and consultant (Environmental informatics)
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Carsten Brockmann Consult: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2005-05-01 to 2006-02-28 | Junior software developer (Environmental informatics)
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Universität Hamburg: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

1998-07-01 to 2006-02-28 | Research assistant (Hamburger Sternwarte)
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University of Manchester: Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, GB

1998-03-01 to 1998-03-31 | Visiting scientist (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universität Hamburg: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

1998-07-01 to 2006-02-28 | Doktor der Naturwissenschaften [PhD] (Physics)
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Universität Hamburg: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

1994-10-01 to 1998-03-31 | Diplom-Physiker [MSc] (Physics)
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Funding (1)

Fidelity and Uncertainty in Climate Data Records from Earth Observation (FIDUCEO)

2015-03 to 2019-02 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
URL: http://www.fiduceo.eu
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638822
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Works (22)

A novel framework to harmonise satellite data series for climate applications

EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2017
2017-10-20 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5519707.v2
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Ralf Quast

A novel method for vicarious re-characterisation of the MVIRI VIS spectral response to facilitate climate monitoring

EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2017
2017-10-20 | Conference abstract
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5519734.v1
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A novel method for vicarious re-characterisation of the MVIRI VIS spectral response to facilitate climate monitoring

EMS Annual Meeting 2017
2017-10-20 | Conference abstract
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5521561.v1
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Is gracious wobbling the new dancing?

FIDUCEO Blogs
2017-08-17 | Interactive resource
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Propagating uncertainty into the climate data record

FIDUCEO Blogs
2016-11-23 | Interactive resource
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Evolutionary spectrum inversion and analysis (Especia)

Zenodo
2016-11-12 | Interactive resource
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.785071
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Creating Fidelitous Climate Data Records from Meteosat First Generation Observations

ESA Living Planet Symposium, Prague, May 2016
2016-06-03 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3412201.v1
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Creating Fidelitous Climate Data Records from Meteosat First Generation Observations

ESA Living Planet Symposium, Prague, May 2016
2016-05-14 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3380578.v4
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Recovering Meteosat First Generation spectral response characteristics

FIDUCEO Blogs
2015-11-03 | Interactive resource
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Multi-sensor match-up database for SST CCI

ESA Sentinel-3 OLCI/SLSTR and MERIS/AATSR Workshop, Frascati, October 2012
2014-07-10 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1063282.v2
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Sentinel-3 Synergy processing

ESA Sentinel-3 OLCI/SLSTR and MERIS/AATSR Workshop, Frascati, October 2012
2014-07-10 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1063285.v2
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SMOS User Support Tools: SMOS-Box and Cal/Val Data Distribution

ESA Living Planet Symposium 2010
2014-06-28 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1080734.v1
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Generating sampling locations for SST CCI

Figshare
2014-04-15 | Interactive resource
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.995992.v1
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HE 0515-4414: an unusual sub-damped Ly alpha system revisited

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2007-10-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054773
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The sub-damped Ly alpha system toward HE 0515-4414

Universität Hamburg
2006-03-15 | Dissertation or Thesis
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583654
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Evolution strategies applied to the problem of line profile decomposition in QSO spectra

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2005-02-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041601
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Cosmochemistry, Cosmology and Fundamental Constants: High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems

22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford, December 13-17, 2004
2004-12-14 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583655
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Probing the variability of the fine-structure constant with the VLT/UVES

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2004-02-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040013
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Fine-structure diagnostics of neutral carbon toward HE 0515-4414

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2002-05-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020342
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Gravitational lensing statistics with extragalactic surveys

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2000-01-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.804865
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Gravitational lensing statistics with extragalactic surveys

Astronomy & Astrophysics
1999-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.804861
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Gravitational lensing statistics with extragalactic surveys

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
1999-04-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/aas:1999467
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