Noteworthy Projects

ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS/FUNDING SUPPORT

  1. Principal Investigator (PI), A New Simplified Analytical Model for the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Altimetry to Improve Coastal Significant Wave Height. Funded by FRGS Ministry of Education Malaysia. Budget approved RM149,800 (2019-2022)
  2. PI, Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) Capacity Building Development (CAPaBLE) grants. Budget approved USD 25,000 (2021)

COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANTS

  1. Co-PI, MALAYSIA-CHINA Research And Cooperation On Marine Renewable Energy Utilization. Funded by International Collaborative Fund MESTEEC. Budget approved RM 471,500 (Vot 4S142, 2018-2020)
  2. PI, COASSARALT: Optimization method to improve ocean geophysical parameters from satellite altimetry synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for coastal oceans. Funded by Tier-1 Grant UTM. Budget approved RM 40,000 (Vot 17H59, 2017-2018)
  3. PI, The development of new waveform retracking algorithm and expert system to optimise sea surface heights from satellite radar altimetry waveforms over coastal regions. Funded by Fundemental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS). Budget approved RM 129,500 (Vot 4F776, 2015-2018).
  4. PI, Development of automatic oil palm tree counting based on remote sensing imagery. Funded by Tier-1 RUG UTM. Budget approved by RM 22,500 (Vot 11H22, 2015-2016).
  5. PI : Vot: PY/2014/02603. Validation of Sea Levels from the New Launched SARAL/AltiKa Satellite Altimetry Data in the Malaysian Continental Shelf Regions. Funded by Encouragement Grant, UTM (April 2013-March 2014).
  6. Co-investigator: An Integrated Observational System Approach to Monitoring and Understanding Regional and Coastal Zone Sea Level Variability and Change in the South Pacific. Funded through the University of New South Wales’s Science Faculty Research Grants Program and Early Career Researcher Grants Program IR001-PS30697 (December 2013-February 2014).
  7. Co-investigator: A New Method for Mapping Geostrophic Circulation over the Shelf: Retracking Altimetric Waveforms to Conform to Synthetic Sea Surface Heights Inferred from Satellite Imagery. Research Higher Degree, The University of Newcastle, Australia (2009 – 2014).
  8. Co-investigator: Satellite AltiKa Altimetry for Monitoring of Mesoscale Variability of the Leeuwin Current off Western Australia in Indian Ocean. Co-Principal Investigator of SARAL/AltiKa Science Team collaborative research with The Centre National d’Études Spatiales France (CNES) and The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) (2010-2014).
  9. Co-investigator: Vot 78276: Surface Water Circulation Algorithm for the South China Sea from Satellite Altimetry. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme funded through the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (2007-2009).
  10. Co-investigator: Sea Grass Mapping from ALOS Satellite Data. Collaborative research between Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Kyushu University Japan, funded through The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Multilateral Cooperative Research Programme “Coastal Marine Science” (JSPS) (2000 – 2010).
  11. Co-investigator: Water Circulation Pattern and Material Transports at Northeast Asia and Marginal Seas. Collaborative research between Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Kyushu University Japan funded through The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Multilateral Cooperative Research Programme “Coastal Marine Science” (JSPS) (2000-2010).
  12. Researcher: Satellite Atlas of Malaysia project funded through Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia (2004-2006).