Biography
Prof. Clement Atzberger
Prof. Clement Atzberger
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Australia
Title: The arrival of the Sentinel-2 game-changer for applications in agriculture, forestry and natural resources management. Overview of BOKU activities.
Abstract: 
The two identical Sentinel-2 satellites S2A and S2B were successfully launched in 2015 and 2017, respectively, as part of the European Copernicus program. Sentinel-2 carries an innovative wide-swath, high-resolution, multispectral imager (MSI) with 13 spectral bands; this offers unprecedented perspectives on our land and vegetation. The combination of high resolution (up to 10 m), novel spectral capabilities (e.g., three bands in the red-edge plus two bands in the SWIR), wide coverage (swath width of 290 km) and minimum five-day global revisit time provides extremely useful information for a wide range of land applications. The present talk provides a short overview of the new satellite’s potential for various applications in agriculture, forestry and natural resources management. The example applications leverage the unique spectral, spatial and temporal characteristics of Sentinel-2. In the field of agriculture, we will present applications for crop type mapping, irrigation and N-management, as well as retrieval of crop bio-physical variables such as LAI. Regardings forests and natural resources, we will showcase examples where Sentinel-2 was successfully used for tree species identification, as well as change detection and tree vitality.
Biography: 
Clement Atzberger received Ph.D. degree on crop growth modelling and remote sensing data assimilation from Trier University, Germany, in 1997. Clement is now full Professor and Head of the Institute for Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information (IVFL) at BOKU University, Austria. Clement spent two years as Assistant Professor at ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands, and further two years in private industry (GeoSys SA, Toulouse, France). For three years he was with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra (Italy). His main expertise is in the following fields: drought monitoring and index insurance, coarse resolution time series analysis (including noise removal and retrieval of phenological markers), radiative transfer modelling (forward and inverse) in agriculture and forestry, crop growth modelling and data assimilation, imaging spectroscopy. He is now focussing on the Sentinel-2 datastreams for applications in agriculture and forestry. He published more than 70 SCI journal papers (h=28).