Frank's work focusses on satellite-retrieved Land Surface Temperature (LST) and its validation with radiometric in-situ measurements. Frank first visited Gobabeb in 2007 in search of an ideal site for validating spatially coarse satellite data: he has returned ever since, maintaining instruments and performing field measurements to monitor the Namib's changing thermal characteristics.

Frank has a M.Sc. degree in Physics, a PhD in Geophysics and lectured Physics and Remote Sensing at United Arab Emirates University. As a long-term team member of EUMETSAT’s Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA SAF) he is responsible for the in-situ validation of LST retrieved from Europe’s meteorological satellites, i.e., Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) and MetOp. Frank set up and operates four validation stations in Europe and Namibia. Within ESA, Copernicus, and NASA projects he investigates LST and emissivity retrieval from a number of different satellites as well as applications in environmental and climate research.

SCL group: https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/satelliteclimatology.php

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5836-5430

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cAQIWBIAAAAJ&hl=en

LSA SAF: https://lsa-saf.eumetsat.int/en/

FRM4STS: http://www.frm4sts.org/activities/event-3-land-surface-temperature-gobabeb/

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