Joan is a biogeochemical oceanographer dedicated to understanding the links between the physical (blue) ocean (temperature, salinity, density, currents) and the biogeochemical (green) ocean (plankton, organic matter, fish). Joan holds a BSc on Fundamental Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) and a PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry from Sorbonne Université (Paris, France). He has …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Joan Llort. In recent years, exceptionally large wildfires have been recorded in Australia, California, the Mediterranean region, and the Arctic. While there exists an established research effort on how Climate Change is leading these megafires and on how they are affecting land ecosystems, recent observations show that …
The Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (AI4EO) Wildfires project began in December 2020 and run for 8 months, focussing on developing and demonstrating a burned area (BA) mapping service that combines EO data, specifically Sentinel-2 optical data, with an AI-enabled algorithm. The project consortium is led by CGI UK, utilising their legacy of developing cloud-based …
