Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning'

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Members

Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umea, Sweden
Interests: land system science; social-ecological systems; ecosystem services; data analytics

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Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management Unit, Geographies of Sustainability Department, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: spatially explicit modelling of land use patterns and processes (peri-urban); land use change impacts on social-ecological systems; integrated cloud-based geospatial computing, machine learning and R; remote sensing and in-situ based land degradation assessment; composite land degradation index, UN land degradation neutrality; modelling vegetation processes, incl. crop conditions, with remote sensing satellite time series; climate variability and climate change impact and adaptation; sustainable use of natural resources in smallholder agro-pastoral systems; GIS education across disciplines and in school
The Department of Geomatics Engineering & Land Management, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine BB11000, Trinidad and Tobago
Interests: remote sensing; land cover mapping; photogrammetry; spatial analysis
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RSPB Centre For Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2 Lochside View, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh EH11 1TE, UK
Interests: conservation; remote sensing; land cover change; protected areas; key biodiversity areas; species distribution modelling; google earth engine

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Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Murcia, Avda. Teniente Flomesta, 5, 30003 Murcia, Spain
Interests: remote sensing; land cover classification; GIS; spatial data science; machine learning and deep learning applied to spatial problems; geocomputation; spatial modeling; hydrological modeling; surface hydro-climatology
School of Agriculture, Forest, Food and Environmental Sciences—SAFE, University of Basilicata, Via dell’Ateneo Lucano, n. 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: historical cartography; GIS technique; remote sensing; landscape ecology; land cover detection
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Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering-ICEA, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy
Interests: geomatics; digital aerial photogrammetry; digital surface models; deformations monitoring; 3D surveys; land subsidence
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Department of Geography, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL 60628, USA
Interests: hydrology; environment; remote sensing; GIS

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Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; object-based image analysis; urban mapping; vegetation species detection
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DIGITAL – Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Steyrergasse 17, 8010 Graz, Austria
Interests: remote sensing; energy; spatial analysis; remote sensing applications; remote sensing software; vegetation mapping
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Department of Environmental Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si 24341, Republic of Korea
Interests: remote sensing; phenology; forest ecology

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Department of Building Sciences and Urban Planning, Urban Design and Regional Planning Unit, University of Alicante, San Vicente de Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Interests: urban design; urban data analysis; land uses; built environment; LBSN data
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Chair of Soil Science, Research Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, TUM-School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
Interests: soil erosion and degradation; GIS; remote sensing; water quality modeling; soil carbon
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1. Computer Science Department, University College London, London WC1E 6EA, UK
2. Applied Mathematics Department, Technical University of Madrid, 28031 Madrid, Spain
3. LifeD Laboratory, 28010 Madrid, Spain
Interests: natural disasters; climate change; floods; resilience; mitigation; social impact; social media; mobile phone data; remote sensing; data privacy; data ethics; data governance; smart sustainable cities; artificial intelligence; data; metaverse; governance; policy-making; early warning; legal technologies; mobility; migrations; complex systems
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Agriculture Department, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: remote sensing; change detection; spatial analysis; multispectral data analysis; LiDAR data analysis; UAV data analysis; GIS
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CRC-Laboratory in Advanced Geomatics Image Processing, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada
Interests: deep learning; machine learning; object detection; wetland mapping; tree species detection; change detection

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Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006 Tartu, Estonia
Interests: participatory natural resource governance and related decision-support tools (e.g. stakeholder analysis); qualitative methods (e.g. case studies, semi-structured interviews); literature review methods: systematic reviews and qualitative evidence syntheses

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Department of Geography, Universite Mont Saint Aignan Rouen, 76130 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Interests: spatial analysis; human geography; geography agent-based simulation
Italian Space Agency, 75100 Matera, Italy
Interests: satellite remote sensing; land surface change detection; retrieval of surface and atmospheric parameters; climate; radiative transfer; air quality; global warming and change
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Advanced Research Laboratories, Tokyo City University, Tokyo 158-8557, Japan
Interests: sustainability science; sustainability education; global environmental studies; environmental ethics and education; environmental engineering; natural and human geography; remote sensing and geographic information system; earth science; hydrology; meteorology; ecology (field observation, lab-experiment, numerical modeling); quantum physics; muon science; muon experiment; particle physics; high energy physics; nanoscience; nanotechnology; human science; anthropology; comparative civilization; history of science; history of ideas; metaphysics; thanatology and science of near death experiences; public policy; public philosophy; social science; social decision making; innovation science; epigenetics; brain science and neuroscience; information theory; big data analytics (natural language processing, text mining, data mining, and machine learning algorithms)

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Dep. Geografia da, Universidade do Porto, Praça de Gomes Teixeira, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal
Interests: physical geography; soil erosion; spatial analysis; mapping; geographic information system; geospatial science; surveying; environment; digital mapping; hydrology
1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Hellenic Mediterranean University, 73133 Chania, Greece
2. Institute of Physics of the Earth’s Interior & Geohazards, UNESCO Chair on Solid Earth Physics and Geohazards Risk Reduction, Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Center, 73133 Chania, Greece
Interests: remote sensing applications; natural hazards; geophysics; geoinformatics
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