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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Aug 17

The event was a joint effort of four #COSTActions: #3DForEcoTech (groud-based LiDAR), #PANGEOS (remote sensing), #CLEANFOREST (tree ecophysiology and ecology) and #ARiF - Augmented Reality In Forestry.

Huge thanks to #PANGEOS for supporting my participation!

#ConnectedByTrees

Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Aug 17

💡@markuseichhorn.bsky.social's keynote on interdisciplinarity reinforced my postdoc goal to step beyond Earth Observation and collaborate across disciplines: to learn more by knowing less.

I also briefly showed my peers how SAR time series can support forest monitoring during the PANGEOS section.

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Aug 17

🌳 Last week I participated at the Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems in Oxford with 40+ participants from 25 countries.
5 intensive days with a field trip, lectures, hands-ons & even keynotes in pubs.

Thanks @mokros.bsky.social and his team for the organization!
#ConnectedByTrees

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Jul 1

In my poster, I also shared new improvements where I incorporated temporal features, applied snow masking and extended the training dataset timeline to five years, which significantly boosted the accuracy of our #MachineLearning models!

👉 My poster is available here: github.com/palubad/SAR-...

github.com

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Jul 1

During the ESA #LPS2025 in Vienna last week, I had the chance to present our work on estimating time series of vegetation indices for Central European #forests using Sentinel-1 #SAR, ancillary data and #ML approaches.

🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Jun 27

⏳ Reminder: The application deadline for the 14th #ESA Advanced Land #Training course with the focus on #agriculture has been extended to 1st July 2025!

🗓️ 29 Sept. - 3 Oct. 2025
📍 Thessaloniki, Greece

👇 Find out more directly on the course website: landtraining2025.esa.int

#EOchat #GISchat

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Jun 16

‼️ The deadline for applications has been extended to 1st July 2025!

Don't miss out the ESA Land training focusing on EO in Agriculture in Thessaloniki, Greece!

Register here: landtraining2025.esa.int

#EOTrainingAcademy #GISchat #EOchat #GeoSky #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #Agriculture

ESA Advanced Land Training Course 2025

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with the focus on Agriculture in collaboration with the University of Thessaloniki. This course is dedi...

landtraining2025.esa.int

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Jun 9

📢 Last 3 days to apply for #ESA 14th Advanced #Training Course on Land #RemoteSensing with a focus on #Agriculture!

📅 When: 29 September - 3 October 2025
📍 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece
👉 Deadline: 12 June 2025

🔗 More info and registration: landtraining2025.esa.int

#GISchat #EOchat #geosky #eo

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · May 29

I have developed a user-friendly interface for using the MMTS-GEE. It is available here: code.earthengine.google.com/64a4db31218a... (you need a GEE account).
You can find it also on GitHub: github.com/palubad/MMTS...

The full-quality poster is available here: storage.mlcdn.com/account_imag...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · May 29

Last week, I participated the #CLMSGA2025 in Kraków, Poland, where I presented the MMTS-GEE tool to generate spatially and temporally aligned SAR, optical, topographic and meteo. data. I also showed two case studies using MMTS-GEE:
1️⃣ doi.org/10.14712/233...
2️⃣ doi.org/10.1080/2096...
#GisChat #GeoSky

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · May 26

🌍 Join us for a presentation by Dr. Francesco Sarti from ESA/ESRIN on "Our planet from space: ESA’s satellite missions & education"

📅 Wednesday, 28 May 2025 14:00–15:30
📍 Kampus Hybernská, A.3 Velká zasedací místnost, Hybernská 998/4, Prague,
Register: evening-closet-d98.notion.site/1ff8779ec7b7...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌧️ Which #precipitation dataset is the most accurate on a daily basis in Central European conditions?

We tried to answer this question evaluating 10 satellite-based and #reanalysis precipitation datasets on a daily basis for #Czechia (2001-2021).

🔗More in our #preprint: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 6

@tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 2

#gischat #geosky

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 2

Can we estimate optical vegetation indices and biohpysical parameters for forests using #Sentinel1 #SAR & ancillary data? We tried to answer this in our latest paper in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social With the help of #machinelearning we generated SAR-based NDVI, EVI, LAI & FAPAR

doi.org/10.1080/2096...

https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2459300

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 2

Best-performing models available on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/palubad/SAR-...
Demo-code for running the models on GitHub: github.com/palubad/SAR-...
MMTS-GEE to generate multi-modal time series data: github.com/palubad/MMTS... , developed in our previous work: karolinum.cz/data/clanek/...

GitHub - palubad/SAR-based-VIs: Supplementary material [data & codes] for the article "Estimating vegetation indices and biophysical parameters for Central European temperate forests with Sentinel-1 S...

Supplementary material [data & codes] for the article "Estimating vegetation indices and biophysical parameters for Central European temperate forests with Sentinel-1 SAR data and machine ...

github.com

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 2

✅ Achieved temp. resolution of up to 240 measurements/year using SAR-based VIs with 2 S1 satellites in 2021 [soon to be restored with Sentinel-1C]
✅ Early disturbance detection: within 4 days vs 35 days with optical indices
✅ Fine-tuned #XGBoost and #RandomForest regressors outperformed #AutoML

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 2

👉 Temporally and spatially aligned SAR, DEM-based & meteo. features trained to estimate time series of #NDVI, #EVI, #LAI & #FAPAR
👉 Trained and tested in Czechia for healthy deciduous and coniferous forests, as well as disturbed areas ⏩ transferability tested for the whole Central Europe

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Apr 2

Can we estimate optical vegetation indices and biohpysical parameters for forests using #Sentinel1 #SAR & ancillary data? We tried to answer this in our latest paper in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social With the help of #machinelearning we generated SAR-based NDVI, EVI, LAI & FAPAR

doi.org/10.1080/2096...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Mar 29

Great to see it in action. Looks cool!
It reminded me that for larger countries, I should add a selection for smaller administrative units. I will try to implement it soon.

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Mar 27

🌍 I have created an interactive #GEE app to generate #Sentinel2 cloud-free mosaics for any country and timeframe, defined by the user.

Generate your mosaics: danielp.users.earthengine.app/view/sentinel2-cloudfree-mosaic-generator

GitHub: github.com/palubad/S2-Mosaic-Generator

#gischat #dataviz

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Mar 23

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The Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter is prepared by the EO4Landscape research team at @sciencecharles.bsky.social Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, with support from the FPCUP project.

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Mar 23

🌍 @copernicusland.bsky.social LMS General Assembly 2025 – registration & abstracts open for Krakow (May 20–22)
🚨 Copernicus Emergency Monitoring Service Conference – insights into flood monitoring (April 2–3)
🥦 Zero Hunger Online Course series by @EO College – explore EO’s role in food security

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Mar 23

💨 WEkEO Workshop on Atmospheric Monitoring – live demos and user experiences (March 24 & 26)
📡 @esa.int ESA Earth Observation Workshop 2025 – hands-on training at ESA Academy in Belgium (July 14–18)
🛰️ DLR/ESA Open PolInSAR Course – deep dive into Polarimetric InSAR techniques (March 28 deadline)

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Mar 23

What’s inside?
🚀 Advanced Use of Copernicus Browser – an interactive webinar on exploring Copernicus data by the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (April 8)
🌲 Remote Sensing of Forests Summer School – UAV, SAR and LiDAR applications at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (June 2–6)

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · Mar 23

The March issue of the #CopernicusAcademy CZ #newsletter is here! It brings a plenty of #EarthObservation opportunities: online and face-to-face trainings, workshops and conferences.

Read it here: shorturl.at/NTIUD

While it is in Czech, most events are in English, so don’t miss out any!

#gischat

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