Scientific expertise

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Scientific expertise

Changes and Health of Temperate Forests

Theia ‘Changes and Health of Temperate Forests’experts group brings together engineers, researchers and stakeholders from the forestry sector, in order to develop and implement methods and tools based on remote sensing data to improve silvicultural and sylvo-sanitary monitoring and the sustainable management of temperate forests, in a context where the pressure factors on these ecosystems are increasingly more numerous in France, in Europe, and throughout the world.

Scientific expertise

Vegetation biophysical variables

Mapping vegetation biophysical variables on a global scale.

Incubating SEC

Drought SEC

Scientific expertise

THEIA services, softwares & thematic tools

Various processing software as well as modelling and mapping tools designed for thematic applications by Theia’s SECs.

Prototyping SEC

Surface water volumes of floodplains SEC

Mapping water level on rivers and floodplains in order to calculate the volumes of water stored at the basin scale.

Scientific expertise

Vegetation Optical Depth

Developing a global measure of vegetation cover

Scientific expertise

Surface Temperature and Emissivity

Improving estimation and mapping for land surface temperature and emissivity.

Scientific expertise

Glaciers

Measuring the Annual Equilibrium-Line Altitude at the end of the ablation period by spatial optical remote sensing

Scientific expertise

Albedo

Mapping spectral and broadband surface albedos for the scientific community involved in energy balances and change detection.

Prototyping SEC

Urban SEC

Mapping artificialized surfaces, urban fabrics, urban vegetation, changes and indicators.

Incubating SEC

Irrigation SEC

Mapping irrigated / non-irrigated areas at high spatial resolution for agricultural purposes.

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Snow-covered surface

Detecting the presence of snow cover, on a continuous, large-scale basis.

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