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Head of Earth Observation Campaigns Section at European Space Agency. Earth Observation (Satellite) specialist esp. for radar imaging systems.

As well as being Mission Scientist for Sentinel-1, Malcolm Davidson also heads ESA’s Earth Observation Campaigns Section. He is responsible for airborne campaigns in support of mission validation and supports the development and implementation of future Earth observation satellites, in particular for radar missions.

Before joining ESA he was a Research Associate with the Centre d’Etudes de la Biosphere in Toulouse, France. He participated in various international synthetic aperture radar projects including PROSMART-II, SIR-C/X-SAR, SIBERIA (CEO project on mapping the Siberian forests using radar), and Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms using Active Remote Sensing for ESA.

Malcolm is a British national. He earned his BSc in Physics from the University of Toronto, Canada, his MSc in Image Processing and Remote Sensing from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Bonn, Germany.