GP1 reports

Here reports on funded and completed STSMs, Disseminations and Conferences in the Grant Period 1 (GP1, 2024) will be published

STSM (5) – short-term scientific missions
DCG (1) – dissemination conference grants
ITCG (4) – conference grants for young researchers from ITC and NNC
VM (3) – virtual mobility

STSMs

person	institute	topic	host
Enrico Tomelleri	Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy	Exploring opportunities for BIOMASS Cal/Val activities and synergies with other space	Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany
Alberto Hornero	Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain	Foundational work on adapting SCOPE model for forest canopy analysis	University of Twente – ITC Faculty Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, the Netherlands
Laura Mihai	Institutul National De Cercetare Dezvoltare Pentru Fizica Laserilor Plasmei Si Radiatiei, Romania	Optimizing best practices and uncertainty propagation in ground-based vegetation reflectance measurements using fixed-point spectrometer	National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK
Riba Palou	Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain	Evaluation of the SVEN model using remot sensing data in Mediterranean grasslands	Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Hector Izquierdo-Sanz	Instituto Valenciano De Investigaciones Agrarias, Spain	Development of remote sensing monitoring models to optimise the use of agricultural resources	Aarhus University, Denmark

Dissemination conference grants

person	institute	topic	conference
Ilva Licaj	University of Sannio, Italy	The role of image-based phenotyping tools in terms of disease treatment management	SPIE sensors and images, the UK

Conference grants for young researchers from ITC and NNC

person	institute	topic	conference
Mar Albert Saiz	Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland	High-resolution satellite images-derived changes in vegetation phenology and lake area in a Central European peatland	IGARSS, – Athenes 2024, Greece
Fuat Kaya	Isparta University of Applied Sciences, Türkiye	Machine learning models for pedotransfer functions and an insight into transferability: Use of open access LUCAS dataset	Centennial Celebration and Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences, Italy
Meleksen Akin	Igdir University, Türkiye	Bibliometric Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Plant Ecology and Conservation	EEBST 2024, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Çanakkale, Türkiye
Bojana Petrovic	University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czechia	Precision agriculture innovations in organic farming systems of Visegrad group countires	Agrosym, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Virtual mobility

person	institute	topic
Monica Herrero	University of Salamanca, Spain	Review on crop trait estimation and crop yield prediction using remotely sensed imagery
Egor Prikaziuk	University of Twente, the Netherlands	Presentations and code systematization of the Summer School on Uncertainty
Dessislava Ganeva	Space Research and Technology Institute – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria	Case study guidelines book organisation and presentation from PANGEOS training school 2024