For the development of this virtual research lab, we are documenting its progress through technical reports, scientific papers, and background information.
Scientific manuscripts
- Timmermans, J., Kissling, W.D.: Scientific opportunities for developing terrestrial essential biodiversity variables from satellite remote sensing in the context of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, submitted in 2022 to Ecological Indicators, preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.25.489356v1
Technical reports
- Timmermans, J. (2021): Deployment tool for the MULTIPLY Multi sensor framework. Internal technical report available from LifeWatch ERIC – VLIC.
- Timmermans J. (2021): Initial design of the SRS enabled Species Trait EBV Workflow. Internal technical report available from LifeWatch ERIC – VLIC.
- Timmermans, J. (2021): Analysing remote sensing approaches and models to retrieve traits for species trait essential biodiversity variables. Internal technical report available from LifeWatch ERIC – VLIC.
- Timmermans, J. (2020): Reviewing existing essential biodiversity variables and remote sensing global data products. Internal technical report available from LifeWatch ERIC – VLIC.
Software packages
- DART radiative transfer model, for simulating satellite imagery using full 3D representations of the study area. https://dart.omp.eu/#/
- SAIL radiative transfer model, for simulating satellite imagery using 1D homogeneous representations of the study area. https://github.com/jbferet/prosail
- Deployment tool for installing the MULTIPLY framework on (cloud) computing systems. https://github.com/JorisTimmermans/Deploy_MULTIPLY
- The MULTIPLY framework for retrieving vegetation traits with multiple satellite remote sensing observations. https://github.com/multiply-org/
- The DeepForest tool available as a Python package for training and predicting individual tree crowns from very high resolution RGB imagery. https://github.com/weecology/DeepForest