Seminar on spectro-directional sensing of vegetation
Wednesday April 7, 2010, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
Location: GAIA building, Droevendaalsesteeg 3 (Building 101), Room Gaia 1
To forecast climate change impacts and adaptations, there is need for developing improved vegetation monitoring services, which are able to record, quantify and map bio-indicators of vegetation parameters across the globe. In this context, Earth observation can provide a substantial amount of up-to-date information about the biochemical and structural conditions at a local-to-global scale. Both multi-angular and spectral data, and particularly their combination may lead to new opportunities for space-based monitoring applications.
In this seminar the use of both spectroscopic and multi-angular remote sensing data for vegetation monitoring is being presented.
The seminar precedes the PhD thesis defense of Jochem Verrelst. You are also invited to attend the public defense of his thesis.
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Time |
Subject |
Name |
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13:00 |
Spectro-directional observations for global vegetation monitoring: from empirical estimates to quantitative modelling up to data assimilation. |
Prof. Dr. José Moreno
University of Valencia,
Spain |
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13:30 |
The color of Albedo – Using complete spectrodirectional observational approaches. |
Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman
University of Zurich,
Switzerland |
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14:00 |
Forest change detection methods for the Observatory of Forests in Central Africa |
Prof. Dr. Pierre Defourny
Université Catholique de Louvain,
Belgium |
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14:30 |
Herbivore resource quality assessment – recent results |
Prof. Dr. Andrew Skidmore
ITC, Enschede,
The Netherlands |
| 15:00 |
Coffee break |
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Transfer to Aula |
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16:00 |
PhD thesis defense: Space-borne spectrodirectional estimation of forest properties |
Jochem Verrelst
Wageningen University |
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17:30 |
Reception |
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Participation is free of charge. For registration, please send an email to Antoinette Stoffers (Antoinette.Stoffers@wur.nl). We are looking forward for your participation!