Seal element of the university of freiburg in the shape of a clover

Salim Soltani

Function

  • Data engineer/analyst

Contact

Main interests

  • Exploring synergies between citizen science data and computer vision methods for mapping plant species in drone imagery
  • Computer Vision 
  • Remote Sensing
  • Data: Multi-sensor data collection and processing
  • Biodiversity Monitoring 
  • Citizen Science data, UAV, Satellite data

Short CV

  • since 2024: Data engineer, Sensor-based Geoinformatics, University of Freiburg
  • 2021-2024: PhD candidate, Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University
  • 2017-2020: M.Sc. Remote Sensing – Geoinformatics, Wuerzburg University
  • 2014-2017: GIS & Climate Assistant, United Nations Environment Programme, Afghanistan
  • 2010-2014: B.Sc. Physical Geography – Remote Sensing , Bamyan University, Afghanistan

Associated research projects

  • BigPlantSense (444524904) – Assessing the Synergies of Big Data and Deep Learning for the Remote Sensing of Plant Species