On 20th and 21st of May 2025, Dr. Daniel Paluba had a chance to participate in and present his work at the 2nd General Assembly of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service in Kraków, Poland.
Last week, on 20th and 21st of May 2025, Dr. Daniel Paluba had a chance to participate in and present his work at the 2nd General Assembly of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service in Kraków, Poland.
"The event was very well organized and I was impressed by the diverse range of presentation formats. I especially appreciated that poster presenters (including me) were given a 2-minute pitch on the main stage, which was a great way to promote our work! My personal highlight of the CLMS GA was learning about the wide range of currently available and upcoming open-access EO-based pan-European and global products for land and vegetation monitoring, developed by the CLMS, Copernicus EEA and other partners. It's definitely worth to check out the CLMS product portfolio." said Daniel, who was presenting his poster presentation on the MMTS-GEE, the Multi-Modal Time Series tool in GEE to generate spatially and temporally aligned SAR, optical, topographical and meteorological data time series using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Copernicus DEM and ERA5-Land data. He has developed a user-friendly interface for it (you need a GEE account) and you can find it also on GitHub. The full-quality poster is available here. This work was part of Daniel's dissertation thesis and started during his research stay at the ESA Φ-lab in 2023 under the supervision of Bertrand Le Saux, Francesco Sarti from the European Space Agency and his thesis supervisor doc. Přemysl Štych.
He also presented the use of MMTS-GEE on two case studies:
- Finding the optimal SAR polarimetric parameters for forest monitoring, and exploring the relationships between SAR, optical, topographical, and meteorological features. Published in AUC Geographica journal, where the MMTS-GEE was first introduced.
- Estimating vegetation indices and biophysical parameters using SAR and other ancillary data. Published in Big Earth Data journal.
"As always, these events are great to connect with new researchers and practitioners, gain new insigths and get valuable feedback on my work!" he added.
If you missed the CLMS GA 2025, you have a chance to watch the recordings of both days on YouTube.
Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/BT64dvARDVk?si=eAISF2O76IqpTIxS
Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/live/CIPXwT_SdTY?si=VGSkYr6suCTuw_hw
This research and the conference attendance were supported by the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (P JAC), project No. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004605, Natural and anthropogenic georisks, the Charles University Grant Agency – Grantová Agentura Univerzity Karlovy (GAUK) Grant No. 412722 and the European Union’s Caroline Herschel Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake under grant agreement No. FPA 275/G/GRO/COPE/17/10042, project FPCUP (Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake).