ACINN Graduate Seminar - SS 2025

2025-05-14 at 12:00 (on-line and on-site)

Introduction to the Digital Landscape Group

Mathieu Gravey

Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

 

Mountains are dynamic, data-scarce, and methodologically demanding environments. In the Digital Landscape Group, we address these challenges by combining innovation in machine learning, geostatistics, and remote sensing to better understand and map mountain processes across scales—from detailed regional mapping to continental-scale assessments.

The group is application-driven and spans a broad range of topics—from vegetation and snow tracking to bird migration, forest fire analysis, and acoustic sensing of life in lakes. We focus both on developing innovative approaches and rigorously evaluating the limits of existing ones. Examples include showcasing failure cases in generative AI.

Previous work includes contributions to multiple-point geostatistics and remote sensing-based environmental monitoring. Currently, the group is increasingly engaged in exploring the limits of machine learning methods and novel hardware approaches, such as FPGAs and event cameras, to push geoscientific research in new directions. We also emphasize replicability, methodological exactness, and the practical use of large-scale tools such as Google Earth Engine.

The presentation aims to give a broad and accessible overview of the group’s philosophy, activities, and future directions—with the hope of fostering collaboration and discussion across disciplines.

 

 

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