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Remote sensing of vegetation

Biodiversity mapping

Radiative transfer modeling

Estimation of biophysical properties

 

I am a Research Associate in remote sensing of vegetation at INRAE as a permanent member of the TETIS laboratory based in Montpellier (south of France). My lab is hosted at the Maison de la Teledetection.

Prior to joining INRAE, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Carnegie Institution for Science at the department of Global Ecology in the Asner lab (Stanford, USA). I hold a PhD in Environmental Sciences, and an eninering degree in agronomy from Montpellier Supagro.

My research focuses on remote sensing data processing and analysis, and methodological development for applications in ecology and environmental monitoring, and a bit of agronomy. I am interested in developing new methods contributing to the estimation of different components of biodiversity (see EBVs), and for the estimation of vegetation biophysical properties. These methodological developments involve imaging spectroscopy, multispectral images and time series, LiDAR data and various optical data acquired from leaf scale (field spectroscopy, close-range imaging spectroscopy) to satellite platforms.

My research is based on two types of approaches :

- Physically-based approaches using radiative transfer modeling (PROSPECT, SAIL, DART) to help understand and interpret interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and remotely sensed radiometric signal.

- Data-driven approaches (machine learning), in order to develop methodologies for classification / regression tasks, and estimation of ecological metrics (including tropical biodiversity) and biophysical properties of vegetation, taking advantage of spatial information and high-dimensionality data.

I am particularly interested in exploring the complementarity between these two approaches.

 

Contact

 

Maison de la Télédétection
500 rue JF Breton
34000 Montpellier
France

Phone: +334 67 54 87 49
Email: jb.feret[at]teledetection.fr