New publication in Nat Comms Earth & Environ.

Temporal dynamics in vertical leaf angles can confound vegetation indices widely used in Earth observations

Since the first NASA Earth observation missions, biophysical vegetation properties such as biomass and chlorophyll content have been monitored using satellites – however, often with significant uncertainties. Our research shows that part of these uncertainties is caused by leaves moving over time.

New publication in Biogeosciences

From simple labels to semantic image segmentation: leveraging citizen science plant photographs for tree species mapping in drone imagery.

Salim Soltani et al. demonstrate how crowd-sourced plant photographs from smartphones can be used with deep learning to map plant species in drone images. The presented framework could ultimately provide a framework for biodiveristy monitoring, where thousands of species could be mapped without having actual reference data for model training.

New partnership

geosense is partner of NFDI4Earth, the national research data infrastructure for the Earth System Sciences.

geosense will support NFDI4Earth in the context of data product generation, standardization and analytical tools. This partnership will be kicked-off with the pilot project GeoLabel, which will deliver a web-based labelling tool for geospatial data. GeoLabel will particularly enable collaborative and AI-supported labeling of various phenomena.