Niklas Bohn

Niklas Bohn is maintaining and improving open-source atmospheric correction codebases for air- and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data as a postdoc in JPL’s Imaging Spectroscopy group. Furthermore, he’s working on snow and ice spectroscopy by developing new retrieval methods for surface parameters focusing on the Greenland Ice Sheet. He received his Ph.D. in Meteorology from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 2022, and spent almost five years at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany, as a research associate being part of the EnMAP project. He grew up in northern Germany at the Baltic Sea coast.


Education: 
  • Ph.D. Meteorology, Free University of Berlin, Germany, June 2022
  • M.S. Environmental Geography and Management, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany, August 2017
  • B.S. Geography, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany, September 2014

Research Interests: 
  • Analyses of algae blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet with remote sensing methods
  • Integration of comprehensive uncertainty quantification for imaging spectroscopy retrievals
  • Development of coupled physics-based atmosphere and surface forward models

Professional Experience: 
  • Research Associate, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (2017-2022)
  • Visiting Scholar Research Intern, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2019-2021)
  • Research Intern, UN-SPIDER (2016)

Selected Awards: 
  • DAAD PhD Scholarship USA 2021 (3 months)
  • DAAD PhD Scholarship USA 2019-2020 (7 months)

Selected Publications: 
  1. N. Carmon, A. Berk, N. Bohn, P. G. Brodrick, O. Kalashnikova, H. Nguyen, D. R. Thompson, and M. Turmon (2022). Unified Topographic and Atmospheric Correction for Remote Imaging Spectroscopy. Front. Remote Sens., 3, 916155, doi: 10.3389/frsen.2022.916155.
  2. D. R. Thompson, N. Bohn, P. G. Brodrick, N. Carmon, M. L. Eastwood, R. Eckert, C. G. Fichot, J. P. Harringmeyer, H. M. Nguyen, M. Simard, and A. K. Thorpe (2022). Atmospheric lengthscales for global VSWIR imaging spectroscopy. J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeo., 127, e2021JG006711, doi: 10.1029/2021JG006711.
  3. N. Bohn, B. Di Mauro, R. Colombo, D. R. Thompson, J. Susiluoto, N. Carmon, M. J. Turmon, and L. Guanter (2022). Glacier ice surface properties in South-West Greenland Ice Sheet: first estimates from PRISMA imaging spectroscopy data. J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeo., 127, 3, e2021JG006718, doi: 10.1029/2021JG006718.
  4. N. Bohn, T. H. Painter, D. R. Thompson, N. Carmon, J. Susiluoto, M. J. Turmon, M. C. Helmlinger, R. O. Green, J. M. Cook, and L. Guanter (2021). Optimal estimation of snow and ice surface parameters from imaging spectroscopy measurements. Remote Sens. Environ., 264, 112613, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112613.
  5. D. R. Thompson, N. Bohn, A. Braverman, P. G. Brodrick, N. Carmon, M. L. Eastwood, J. E. Fahlen, R. O. Green, M. C. Johnson, D. A. Roberts, and J. Susiluoto (2021). Scene invariants for quantifying radiative transfer uncertainty. Remote Sens. Environ., 260, 112432, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112432.
  6. N. Carmon, D. R. Thompson, N. Bohn, J. Susiluoto, M. Turmon, P. G. Brodrick, D. S. Connelly, A. Braverman, K. Cawse-Nicholson, R. O. Green, and M. Gunson (2020). Uncertainty Quantification for a Global Imaging Spectroscopy Surface Composition Investigation. Remote Sens. Environ., 251, 112038, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112038.
  7. N. Bohn, L. Guanter, T. Kuester, R. Preusker, and K. Segl (2020). Coupled Retrieval of the Three Phases of Water from spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Measurements. Remote Sens. Environ., 242, 111708, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111708.
Niklas
Address: 
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Email: 
urs.n.bohn@jpl.nasa.gov