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Daniel Plauba
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Postdoctoral researcher in Earth Observation @ Charles University, Prague, Czechia | SAR | Time Series | 🌳🌲Forests | Machine Learning | 🎓 Capacity Building | 🚴🏼🏐
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palubad.bsky.social
Last Monday, during the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social C3S User engagement workshop within the #CzechSpaceWeek, I got a chance to present our work on the evaluation of precipitation datasets in Czechia.
The paper is currently under review, but the preprint is available here:
doi.org/10.13140/RG....
October 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
palubad.bsky.social
🌳 Last week I participated at the Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems in Oxford with 40+ participants from 25 countries.
5 intensive days with a field trip, lectures, hands-ons & even keynotes in pubs.

Thanks @mokros.bsky.social and his team for the organization!
#ConnectedByTrees
August 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
palubad.bsky.social
During the ESA #LPS2025 in Vienna last week, I had the chance to present our work on estimating time series of vegetation indices for Central European #forests using Sentinel-1 #SAR, ancillary data and #ML approaches.

🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...
July 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
palubad.bsky.social
📢 Last 3 days to apply for #ESA 14th Advanced #Training Course on Land #RemoteSensing with a focus on #Agriculture!

📅 When: 29 September - 3 October 2025
📍 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece
👉 Deadline: 12 June 2025

🔗 More info and registration: landtraining2025.esa.int

#GISchat #EOchat #geosky #eo
June 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
palubad.bsky.social
I have developed a user-friendly interface for using the MMTS-GEE. It is available here: code.earthengine.google.com/64a4db31218a... (you need a GEE account).
You can find it also on GitHub: github.com/palubad/MMTS...

The full-quality poster is available here: storage.mlcdn.com/account_imag...
May 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
palubad.bsky.social
Last week, I participated the #CLMSGA2025 in Kraków, Poland, where I presented the MMTS-GEE tool to generate spatially and temporally aligned SAR, optical, topographic and meteo. data. I also showed two case studies using MMTS-GEE:
1️⃣ doi.org/10.14712/233...
2️⃣ doi.org/10.1080/2096...
#GisChat #GeoSky
May 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
palubad.bsky.social
🌍 Join us for a presentation by Dr. Francesco Sarti from ESA/ESRIN on "Our planet from space: ESA’s satellite missions & education"

📅 Wednesday, 28 May 2025 14:00–15:30
📍 Kampus Hybernská, A.3 Velká zasedací místnost, Hybernská 998/4, Prague,
Register: evening-closet-d98.notion.site/1ff8779ec7b7...
May 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
palubad.bsky.social
🌧️ Which #precipitation dataset is the most accurate on a daily basis in Central European conditions?

We tried to answer this question evaluating 10 satellite-based and #reanalysis precipitation datasets on a daily basis for #Czechia (2001-2021).

🔗More in our #preprint: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....
April 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
palubad.bsky.social
Can we estimate optical vegetation indices and biohpysical parameters for forests using #Sentinel1 #SAR & ancillary data? We tried to answer this in our latest paper in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social With the help of #machinelearning we generated SAR-based NDVI, EVI, LAI & FAPAR

doi.org/10.1080/2096...
https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2459300
April 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
palubad.bsky.social
🌍 I have created an interactive #GEE app to generate #Sentinel2 cloud-free mosaics for any country and timeframe, defined by the user.

Generate your mosaics: danielp.users.earthengine.app/view/sentinel2-cloudfree-mosaic-generator

GitHub: github.com/palubad/S2-Mosaic-Generator

#gischat #dataviz
March 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
palubad.bsky.social
The March issue of the #CopernicusAcademy CZ #newsletter is here! It brings a plenty of #EarthObservation opportunities: online and face-to-face trainings, workshops and conferences.

Read it here: shorturl.at/NTIUD

While it is in Czech, most events are in English, so don’t miss out any!

#gischat
📰 The March issue of the Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter is here! This edition brings a plenty of Earth Observation opportunities, including online and face-to-face trainings, hands-on workshops and interesting conferences. Read it here: https://eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=0-0&id=15 While the newsletter is in Czech 🇨🇿, most workshops and events are in English, so don’t miss out any! What’s inside? 🚀 Advanced Use of Copernicus Browser – an interactive webinar on exploring Copernicus data by the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (April 8) 🌲 Remote Sensing of Forests Summer School – UAV, SAR and LiDAR applications at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (June 2–6) 💨 WEkEO Workshop on Atmospheric Monitoring – live demos and user experiences (March 24 & 26) 📡 ESA Earth Observation Workshop 2025 – hands-on training at ESA Academy in Belgium (July 14–18) 🛰️ DLR/ESA Open PolInSAR Course – deep dive into Polarimetric InSAR techniques (March 28 deadline) 🌍 Copernicus Land Monitoring Service General Assembly 2025 – registration & abstracts open for Krakow (May 20–22) Copernicus EEA 🚨 Copernicus Emergency Monitoring Service Conference – insights into flood monitoring (April 2–3) 🥦 Zero Hunger Online Course series by EO College – explore EO’s role in food security 💧 NASA ARSET Courses – waterborne diseases & wildfire monitoring using satellite data 📍 Czech Association for Geoinformation Conference – key topics in GIS & Smart Cities (May 5–6, Prague) 👉 Sign up for our newsletter here: https://eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/newsletter-2/ The Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter is prepared by the EO4Landscape research team at Faculty of Science, Charles University’s Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, with support from the FPCUP project.
March 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
palubad.bsky.social
🌍🛰️ Přihlašte se do našeho magisterského studijního programu #Geoinformatika, #kartografie a dálkový průzkum Země!

⏳ Máte posledních 10 dní - do 31. 3. 2025 - na podání přihlášky!

Více o programu: natur.cuni.cz/uchazeci/stu...

#RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GIS #Cartography
March 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
palubad.bsky.social
AI to generate #podcast from research papers?

I just tested Google's #NotebookLM tool by uploading our 2 research papers on #unsupervised #wildfire progression monitoring with #SAR data. It resulted in a surprisingly engaging podcast.

Full podcast and papers attached in the comment 👇

#gischat
March 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
palubad.bsky.social
📰 The February issue of the Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter is out! It’s packed with new EO training and webinar invitations, exciting ESA opportunities, upcoming conferences and more.

Read it here: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/wp-admin/adm...
February 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
palubad.bsky.social
🔥 This Wednesday, I reached a major milestone: I successfully completed my #PhD journey by defending my thesis ‘Advancing #Forest Monitoring using #Sentinel1 C-band #SAR Time Series and #MachineLearning Approaches' at the @sciencecharles.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz
Details on my thesis 👇
February 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
palubad.bsky.social
🌍 🛰️ Are you in Prague on 13th of February? Join our seminar at @sciencecharles.bsky.social on 'Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from basics to applications in Earth Observation' with our special guest Prof. Fabio Del Frate from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
February 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
palubad.bsky.social
🔥 The newest issue of the Copernicus Academy CZ Newsletter (in Czech 🇨🇿) is out!
Read it here: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/wp-admin/adm...

Find invitations to some upcoming conferences, webinars, online tranings, workshops and courses.

Subscribe here: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/newsletter-2/
Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter
January 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
palubad.bsky.social
⌛️ Last Tuesday marked the end of my more than six-year journey at the PR Department of @sciencecharles.bsky.social

🐣 I started here during my master's, but over these 6 years, I had the opportunity to get to know it from a much different perspective than an average student could.
📸 The headquarters of the Faculty of Science, Charles University (home to the Dean's office, Geography and Geology sections) at Albertov 6, Prague by Petr Jan Juračka
January 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
palubad.bsky.social
🌳 Our latest paper identifies the most effective #Sentinel1 #SAR features for #forest monitoring, exploring their relationship with optical vegetation indices, DEM-based and climate data

Paper: karolinum.cz/data/clanek/...
Tool to generate multi-modal time series in #GEE: github.com/palubad/MMTS...
The first page of the published paper Fig. 5. Average and individual time series for 2021 of a) NDVI, b) EVI, c) LAI and d) FAPAR using all input data for broad-leaved and coniferous forests. Note: dec. = deciduous forests, con. = coniferous forests Fig. 6. Average and individual time series of a) VH, b) VV, c) VV/VH and d) VH/VV using all input data for broad-leaved and coniferous forests. Note: dec. = broad-leaved forests, con. = coniferous forests
December 3, 2024 at 5:35 PM
palubad.bsky.social
📰 Právě jsme vydali listopadové číslo Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/wp-admin/adm...

Čekají na vás novinky a příležitosti ze světa dálkového průzkumu Země #remotesensing #earthobservation 👇

Přihlašte se k odběru zde: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/newsletter-2
Listopadový Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM