Carreno-Luengo Earns Research Faculty Recognition Award
Dr. Hugo Carreno-Luengo has received the Research Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Michigan.
Hugo Carreno-Luengo, Ph.D., an associate research scientist at the U-M Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, has received the Research Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Michigan.
The Research Faculty Recognition Award honors people who hold at least a 60% appointment at the rank of research assistant professor or assistant research scientist. Selection criteria include exceptional scholarly achievements, as evidenced by publications or other scholarly activities in any academic field of study.
Carreno-Luengo is a pioneer in Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry — spaceborne Earth remote sensing techniques — and his prodigious, original work has led to new science applications that advance the quest to understand global environmental change. Carreno-Luengo earned his Ph.D. in aerospace science and technology at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona in 2016 and joined U-M in 2019.
His work focuses on expanding the scope of scientific applications for the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System mission. He has developed a novel method that improves spatial resolution of CYGNSS by a factor of ~100, demonstrating the ability to resolve dynamic wetland surface extent under dense vegetation canopies. Obstruction by vegetation is a significant limitation of other state-of-the-art satellite missions, which his new method significantly mitigates. He also has advanced long-term mapping of land surface freeze-thaw states, which is critical for quantifying carbon, energy, and water fluxes and their impacts on land-cover change.
Carreno-Luengo has participated in 12 international research projects and published 23 journal articles, 63 conference papers and one book chapter. He also leads the GRSS-IEEE Standards for Earth Observations.