Interferometric (InSAR) short-time-series of Sentinel-1 SAR data acquired over central Europe were exploited in a new approach for the generation of large-scale thematic maps. Temporal features, extracted from the evolution of the interferometric coherence, together with backscatter, were used as input for a machine learning-based classifier. Three land cover classes were extracted: artificial surfaces, forests, …
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After a BSc in Natural Sciences at the University of Perugia with a thesis on the ecology of small carnivores and a MSc in Environmental Sciences at the University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) with a thesis on forest monitoring through multi-source remote sensing observations, Marco received a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at UNIMIB. His thesis focused …
Mariette’s interest in Earth observation and the effect of climate change on Earth’s ecosystems developed during her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Earth Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This motivated her to pursue a PhD in remote sensing which she started in 2012 at the Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation at TU Wien …
The annual European Geosciences Union General Assembly is the largest and most prominent European geosciences event. Annually, it attracts over 14,000 scientists from all over the world, of which more than half are early career scientists. The EGU General Assembly 2019, taking place in Vienna (Austria) on 7–12 April 2019, will bring together geoscientists from …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Mariette Vreugdenhil. Through its role in the global water-, carbon- and energy cycles, vegetation is a key control in land surface processes and land-atmosphere interactions. Vegetation is strongly affected by variability in climate drivers like temperature, radiation and water availability. Vegetation phenology, the timing of vegetation phases, …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Francescopaolo Sica. Forests are of paramount importance for the Earth’s ecosystem, since they play a key-role in reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in controlling climate changes. The study of deforestation and development of global forest coverage and biomass is fundamental for assessing …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Marco Celesti. The future FLEX/Sentinel-3 tandem mission will provide unique information on vegetation dynamics by exploiting Sun-induced fluorescence and reflectance at the unprecedented spatial scale of 300m x 300m. This magnified view into the photosynthetic machinery will enhance our ability to face the actual and future challenges …
Francescopaolo Sica received the Laurea (M.S.) degree (summa cum laude) in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 2012 and 2016. He is currently a Researcher at the Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From November 2014 until February …
The possibility to operationally monitor the Earth’s land cover (changes) at high temporal resolution is nowadays given by EO multispectral dense time series available at global level, in particular Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data. Nonetheless, keeping thematic maps regularly updated is a complex and time consuming task. Large efforts have been devoted to date in …
