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BIOMASCAT: Assessing vegetation carbon dynamics from multi-decadal spaceborne observations

Prime company: GAMMA REMOTE SENSING AG (CH)

Characterization of forest biogeochemical cycles is of paramount importance in Earth system science to understand contemporaneous dynamics and for expanding global land models in order to predict future trends of vegetation and climate. Thanks to the increasing amount of spaceborne observations of land and ocean surfaces, data-driven models are revealing intriguing trends and mechanisms and …

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Marco Celesti

“Being supported financially and technically for my own research activity, connecting with a diverse community of research fellows, ESA scientists and engineers, and spending six months inside ESA was an invaluable step change in my career.”   After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Marco was Sentinel Optical Mission Scientist at HE Space Operations …

Mariette Vreugdenhil

” The ESA Living Planet Fellowship was invaluable in developing close collaborations with researchers in my field, through the research stay abroad and by the efforts of ESA to include fellows in ESA meetings and workshops.”    After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Mariette was a Permanent Senior Scientist at TU Wien.  

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Living Planet Fellows at EGU2019

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 …

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MethEO – Methane emissions in the Northern Hemisphere by applying both data from Earth Observing (EO) satellites and global atmospheric methane inversion model estimates

Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)

The project will investigate Northern Hemisphere methane (CH4) sources and their connection to the soil freezing and thawing at high latitudes. We will innovatively combine methods for monitoring of CH4 (methane) emissions in the Northern Hemisphere by applying both data from Earth Observing (EO) satellites and global atmospheric methane inversion model estimates. The EO data …

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SHRED: Sentinel-1 for High REsolution monitoring of vegetation Dynamics

Prime company: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN (TU WIEN) (AT)

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, …

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EOCYTES: Evaluation of the effect of Ozone on Crop Yields and the TErrestrial carbon pool using Satellite data

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Jasdeep Singh Anand. Terrestrial ecosystems are a major carbon pool, and so act to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. However, vegetation in these carbon pools are damaged by tropospheric O3, which is formed from anthropogenic NOx and aerosol emissions. Damaged vegetation cannot sequester as much carbon, so this …

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HI-FIVE: High-Resolution Forest Coverage with InSAR & Deforestation Surveillance

Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)

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 …

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MULTI-FLEX: towards a strategy for fluorescence monitoring at multiple scales within the context of the FLEX/S-3 tandem mission

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA (IT)

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 …

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Francescopaolo Sica

“Being an ESA fellow has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Living Planet Fellowship allowed me to achieve my research goals, deepening my technical and scientific knowledge and strengthening my international cooperation. I benefitted from the direct interaction with ESA scientists, other ESA fellows, and end-users. I strongly recommend it to aspiring fellows, and I am …