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VEgetation Spatialization of Traits Algorithm (VESTA)

Prime company: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturf (DE)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Mateus Dante De Paula. The VESTA (Vegetation Spatialization of Traits Algorithm) project proposes the development of a workflow to map global above and belowground plant traits for the present and future through the integration of a trait-based dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) and vegetation EO (Earth observation) data. Trait-based …

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Tobias Braun

Tobias is currently an ESA Living Planet Fellow at the Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing at Leipzig University (Germany). In his research, he employs and further develops methods from complexity science to understand past and present Earth system dynamics with a focus on climate extremes. He graduated with a Master’s degree in …

Edna Dualeh

Edna is currently an ESA Living Planet Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. She completed a PhD in volcano remote sensing at the University of Leeds, UK in 2022 where her research focused on using high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to examine volcanic deposits. During her PhD she worked closely with the Centre …

Laia Amorós

Laia is a mathematician that works at the Finnish Meteorological Institute since 2021. She studied mathematics at the University of Barcelona and completed her PhD (2016) in number theory in a joint collaboration between the University of Barcelona and the University of Luxembourg. In 2018, she moved to Finland, where she worked as a postdoctoral …

Paul Vermunt

Paul joined University of Twente in October 2022 as a researcher. His background is in hydrology (Utrecht University), and he specialized in radar remote sensing of vegetation and soil during his PhD at Delft University of Technology. This thesis focused on sub-daily dynamics in agricultural fields, combining ground-based experiments and electromagnetic modelling. At the University …

Anna Rufas

Anna is an oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Oxford. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of Barcelona, an MSc in Oceanography from the University of Southampton, and a PhD in Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling from the University of Oxford. Anna’s research focuses on …

Samuel Favrichon

Samuel is a remote sensing scientist specialised in Earth observation through satellite passive microwave measurements. Following an engineering diploma in computer science and data analysis from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, he earned a PhD from Observatoire de Paris focusing on the measurement of global Land Surface Temperature. Relying on the combination of physical models …

Global vegetation monitoring from active and passive microwave sensors (GVMAP)

Prime company: GAMMA REMOTE SENSING AG (CH)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Samuel Favrichon. Vegetation is a central component of the Earth’s system, governing surface water exchanges and constituting one of the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs. Ongoing disturbances, whether natural or human-induced, combined with the impacts of changing climate, induce rapid alterations on a global scale. Accurate and consistent assessments of …

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Earth Surface Impacts of Hydrological Extremes along Global Atmospheric River Networks (ARNETLAB)

Prime company: Leipzig University (DE)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Tobia Braun. As the global water cycle intensifies, the Earth’s surface will experience more extreme weather and climate events. Increasingly intense and frequent hydrological extremes, such as heavy precipitation events (HPEs), will result in unprecedented alteration of terrestrial ecosystem processes. Prior research has succeeded to track and catalogue several …

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Developing systematic SAR backscatter tools for volcanic monitoring (VOLCSCATTER)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Edna Dualeh. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) backscatter can provide crucial information about the progression of a volcanic eruption,regardless of the time of day or environmental conditions (e.g., cloud coverage). SAR backscatter is dependent on the surface scattering properties, which can be altered during a volcanic eruption through the emplacement …

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