Company Profile

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CESBIO is a joint laboratory of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (UPS), and the Institut pour la Recherche et le développement. There are 60 permanent and roughly 60 non permanent staff (contractors, post doc, trainee, graduate and post graduate students), amounting to roughly 120 employees over two permanent sites (Toulouse and Auch) and temporary sites in Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon and Syria.

CESBIO is organized in two teams (Modelling and Observations) and with three prongs:

• 3D Integrated modelling of the biosphere (hydrology, radiative transfer, vegetation growth).

• Remote sensing space missions (SMOS, Venus, Biomass, Mistigri, ...).

• Observatories (Regional Space Observatories in South Western France and Morocco delivering web map services).

CESBIO has three main research activities:

• The study and modelling of the water balance and ecosystem functioning, from local to global scales.

• The understanding of the signal measured by satellite sensors and of its interaction with the atmosphere and surface targets.

• The use of remotely sensed data to monitor and study water balance and vegetation at different space-time scales.