Peter Romanov

Peter Romanov received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Leningrad State University (currently Saint Petersburg State University), Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree from the Central Aerological Observatory, Moscow, Russia, in 1989. Between 1987 and 1996, he was with the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia, Moscow, where he performed analysis of satellite sounding data for meteorological applications. From 1997 to 1998, he was with Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, where he supervised the Canadian branch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's AErosol RObotic NETwork of ground-based sun photometers. Since 1998, he has been a Visiting Scientist with the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Camp Springs, MDA. Since 2010, he has been with the NOAA/Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center, The City College of New York, The City University of New York, New York. His primary interests include the development of satellite data processing techniques and the application of remote sensing data to monitor Earth's land surface cover.