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SUMMARY:Imaging the Planet for a Sustainable Future
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gilberto Camara\, Secretariat Director of the Group on 
 Earth Observations (GEO)\nWith the special participation of \n\n	Prof. Ma
 rtin Vetterli\, EPFL President \n	Prof. Meredith Schuman\, UZH \n	Prof.
  Devis Tuia\, EPFL \n\nAbstract. Satellite images are the most comprehen
 sive source of data about our environment\; they provide information for m
 easuring deforestation\, crop production\, food security\, urban footprint
 s\, water scarcity\, and land degradation. In recent years\, space agencie
 s have adopted open distribution policies and as result experts now have a
 ccess to repeated acquisitions over the same areas\; the resulting time se
 ries improve our understanding of ecological patterns and processes.\nThe 
 availability of big Earth observation data has led the experts in the fiel
 d to focus on the technologies of cloud computing\, data cubes\, and machi
 ne learning. However\, continuous monitoring of land dynamics using remote
  sensing data differs from applications such as spam filters\, automatic t
 ranslation\, and object detection. This talk will focus on the challenges 
 of using machine learning to analyse large satellite image time series and
  argue that long-term progress will depend on a new generation of methods 
 that combine machine learning with functional ecosystem models.\n\nBiograp
 hy. Prof. Dr. Gilberto Câmara is a Brazilian researcher in GIScience\,
  Geoinformatics\, Spatial Data Science\, and Land Use Change who is aff
 iliated with Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and is
  currently serving as Secretariat Director of the Group on Earth Observa
 tions (GEO). Before joining GEO\, Gilberto was INPE’s assistant direct
 or for Earth Observation (2001-2005) and INPE’s director general (200
 5-2012).He is internationally recognized for promoting free access for ge
 ospatial data and for setting up an efficient satellite monitoring of th
 e Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Gilberto has advised 53 graduate students
 \, published more than 130 scholarly papers\, and cited more than 13000 
 times (h = 48\, Google Scholar\, 11/2020). He was inducted as a Doctor
  honoris causa from the University of Münster (Germany) and as a Cheva
 lier (Knight) of the Ordre National du Mérite of France. He received t
 he William T. Pecora award from NASA and USGS for "leadership to the br
 oad and open access to remote sensing data".\n\nThis event is part of the
  EPFL Seminar Series in Imaging (https://imagingseminars.org).\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87652720377
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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