EO Data Science Department

Besides the expertise pools at IMF in the three sensor technologies, namely synthetic aperture radar (SAR), optical imaging and atmospheric spectrometry, algorithms crossing sensor technologies, e.g. for data fusion, have been gaining importance for years. Furthermore, Earth observation (EO) has irreversibly arrived in the Big Data era with the Sentinel satellites (and in the future with Tandem-L). This requires not only new technological approaches to manage large amounts of data (as pursued by DFD), but also new analysis methods.

Here, methods of data science and artificial intelligence (AI), such as machine learning, become indispensable. Deep Learning in particular has led to a revolution in AI in recent years. Motivated by these facts, IMF has placed one of its research foci on EO Data Science.

Our vision is listed as follows:

Unsere Kompetenz liegt in der Erforschung von künstlicher Intelligenz für die Fernerkundung (AI4EO).

Der aktuelle Fokus liegt dabei besonders auf der Entwicklung künstlicher Intelligenz für multimodale Daten, georeferenzierte Fernerkundungsdaten, Bildern aus Zeitreihenaufnahmen und large-scale Daten.

Dabei haben wir zwei große Schwerpunktbereiche definiert: Efficiency in AI4EO und Trustworthy AI4EO.

Des Weiteren erforschen wir die Möglichkeiten, komplexe Probleme im Bereich der Erdbeobachtung mit Hilfe von Quantum Computing zu lösen.

Unser SWAT-Team (Software and Tools) unterstützt unsere Abteilung mit ihren fundierten Kenntnissen von Programmierung, Knowledge Discovery über High Performance Computing (HPC) bis hin zu Anwendungen in den Geowissenschaften.

The department is divided into the following working groups:

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Contact

Dr. Anja Rösel

Acting Head of Department EO Data Science
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF)
EO Data Science
Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Weßling
Tel: +49 8153 28-4330

Dr. Andrés Camero Unzueta

Acting Head of Department EO Data Science
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF)
EO Data Science
Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Weßling
Tel: +49 8153 28-1033