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| Role | Hosting Offer |
|---|---|
| Organisation | Institute of Geodesy and Cartography |
| Organisation type | Research centre |
| City | Warsaw |
| HR Excellence in Research Award from the European Commission | no |
| National evaluation category | B (good) |
| Faculty / Dept. / Division / Laboratory / Research group | Remote Sensing Centre |
| Website | http://www.igik.edu.pl/en/remote-sensing |
| Thematic area/field | ST – Physical Sciences and Engineering / ST10 Earth sciences |
| Key words | satellite climatology, agriculture monitoring, crop yield forecasting, solar radiation, cloud cover |
| Short summary of activities and expertise | Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK) is a leading research institute in Poland focusing on developing and implementing scientific methodology related to remote sensing, spatial data infrastructures, navigation technologies, GIS processing, digital photogrammetry as well as geodesy and geodynamics. IGiK participates in implementation of Copernicus Programme, being an active collaborator of ESA and the EC. The Institute is an active member of the European Centre of Excellence for earth Observation Research Training, the European Association of remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) and the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE). IGIK activity deals with practical implementation of the developed methods and technologies in various fields of applications, supporting public administration, business, academia and groups of citizens. The major fields of the Remote Sensing Centre's expertise are: - climate change impacts monitored by remote sensing - satellite climatology - soil moisture retrieval - agriculture monitoring (crop type recognition, crop yield forecasting, drought monitoring) - radar interferometry |
| Role and profile of key persons (incl. supervisor) | My name is Jędrzej Bojanowski, assistant professor in Remote Sensing Centre, I specialize in application of satellite data in environmental studies: climatology and monitoring of agriculture. My main research interests are: - monitoring agriculture with remote sensing: crop classification, crop growth monitoring, and yield forecasting using satellite and climate reanalysis data - processing, verification and analysis of satellite-based climate data records on cloud cover, cloud physical properties, short-wave downward radiation, and land surface temperature - geostatistical merging of satellite data and meteorological ground measurements - modelling of short-wave downward radiation based on measurements of meteorological parameters: sunshine duration, cloud cover and air temperature range - scientific programming (mainly in R), big data analysis and automation of satellite data processing and analysis I can supervise a person carrying out a POLONEZ-BIS grant. I am a leader of a small team of 3 people, supervise NCN Preludium grant at the Warsaw University (climatology), and I am an assistant promoteur of a PhD student at the Warsaw University (remote sensing). My work experience include a Ph.D. in satellite remote sensing at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, The Netherlands; research grant at European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Monitoring Agricultural Resources, Crop Production Forecast and Climate Change Impact, Ispra, Italy; and a postdoctoral stay at the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Climate Division, Zürich, Switzerland. I was a WP leader in two big international projects: CM SAF and ESA CCI Clouds. I have been a project manager and scientific coordinator in two projects (2018-2021) related to monitoring agriculture for public administration with remote sensing (for statistical office and paying agency). |
| Previous and current involvement in research and training programmes | Jedrzej Bojanowski carried out a POLONEZ grant (2017-2018) in our institute untitled: Variability and change of cloudiness diurnal cycle over the past 30 years: a global analysis based on polar orbiting satellites. IGiK was involved in three big training programmes: (1) BalticSatApps (2017-2020) funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014–2020, (2) ERASMUS MUNDUS - Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management” (GEM) EU Programme; The partners of GEM program were University Twente Faculty ITC, University Lund ( GIS ), University of Island, University of Southampton-Geography, University of Warsaw ( Interfaculty Studies in Environmental Protection ). (3) GIONET (2011-2014) in which Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, as a member of European Centre of Excellence for Earth Observation Research Training, welcomed two GIONET Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) for three years of individually supervised doctoral projects. http://www.igik.edu.pl/en/education-and-training |
| Relevant publications and/or research/innovation products | I am a coauthor of three satellite-based Climate Data Records: COMET (cloud cover) and SUMET (land surface temp), and Cloud_cci (cloud physical properties) - Bojanowski J.S., Musiał J.P., 2020, Dissecting effects of orbital drift of polar-orbiting satellites on accuracy and trends of climate data records of cloud fractional cover, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 6771–6788. doi:10.5194/amt-13-6771-2020 - Stöckli, R., Bojanowski, J.S., John, V.O., Duguay-Tetzlaff, A., Bourgeois, Q., Schulz, J., Hollmann, R., 2019, Cloud Detection with Historical Geostationary Satellite Sensors for Climate Applications. Remote Sensing, Vol. 11 (9), 1052. doi:10.3390/rs11091052 - Bojanowski, J.S., Stöckli, R., Duguay-Tetzlaff, A., Finkensieper, S., Hollmann, R., 2018, Performance Assessment of the COMET Cloud Fractional Cover Climatology across Meteosat Generations, Remote Sensing, Vol. 10 (5), 804. doi:10.3390/rs10050804 - Pfeifroth, U., Bojanowski, J.S., Clerbaux, N., Manara, V., Sanchez-Lorenzo, A., Trentmann, J., Walawender, J.P., Hollmann, R., Satellite based trends of solar radiation and cloud parameters in Europe, Advances in Science and Research, Vol. 15, pp. 31-37. doi:10.5194/asr-15-31-2018- - Stengel, M., Poulsen, C., Thomas, G., Christiansen, M., Carbajal Henkel, C., Preusker, R., Fisher, J., Sus, O., Stapelberg, S. Schlundt, C., Devasthale, A., Willen, U., Karlsson, K.-G., Povey, A., Grainer, D., Proud, S., Meirink, J.F., Feofilov, A., Bennartz, R., Bojanowski, J.S., Hollmann, R., 2017, Cloud property datasets retrieved from AVHRR, MODIS, AATSR and MERIS in the framework of the Cloud_cci project. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 881-904. doi:10.5194/essd-9-881-2017 - Duguay-Tetzlaff, A., Bento, V.A., Göttsche, F.M., Stöckli, R., Martins, J.P.A., Trigo, I., Olesen, F., Bojanowski, J.S., da Camara, C., Kunz, H., 2015. Meteosat Land Surface Temperature Climate Data Record: Achievable Accuracy and Potential Uncertainties. Remote Sensing, 2015, 7, 13139-13156. doi:10.3390/rs7101313 |
| Key research facilities, infrastructure, and equipment | IGiK has a computer laboratory for satellite data processing equipped with several servers (i.a. 3 servers of 64 cores@2.20GHz, 256GB RAM), workstations and software packages such as: for image processing - ERDAS, ENVI, eCognition, Definiens, SNAP ; for GIS analysis - ARC-INFO, ARC Map, QGIS, for machine learning: Python- scikit-learn; for statistical analysis: R, Statistica. In addition, IGiK has an access and experience in processing big data at Okeanos Supercomputing CrayXC40 (1084 x 2.6 GHz, 128 GB RAM), CreoDIAS and Amazon Web Services. IGiK has repositories of (1) NOAA/AVHRR data collected since 1997 by the Dartcom receiving station with a dedicated software for data capture and processing, and (2) Terra/Aqua MODIS, SPOT VEGETATION, Proba-V, Landsat TM, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 for the territory of Poland. In total, the Remote Sensing Centre of IGiK has 4 dedicated NAS servers (total 276 TB storage), and 115 TB in non-dedicated storage. IGiK also has extensive instrumentation for field measurements of biophysical parameters such as: LAI 2000/2200 Plant Canopy Analyzers, AccuPAR LP-80 solar radiation meters, TRIME-FM soil moisture probes, Chlorophyll content meters, handheld infrared thermometers, ASD FieldSpec spectroradiometers, Chlorophyll fluorometer, CO2 Chamber Flux system and portable meteorological stations. IGiK maintains two research areas. In Wielkopolska this is the JECAM international site, where ground- and satellite-based research on agriculture, crop growth, vegetation condition monitoring and satellite data calibration is conducted. The second area is located in the Biebrza valley and is used for satellite-based soil moisture retrieval, and analysis of changes in natural grassland vegetation and greenhouse gas fluxes. |
| Hosting arrangements | IGiK has a computer laboratory for satellite data processing equipped with several servers (i.a. 3 servers of 64 cores@2.20GHz, 256GB RAM), workstations and software packages such as: for image processing - ERDAS, ENVI, eCognition, Definiens, SNAP ; for GIS analysis - ARC-INFO, ARC Map, QGIS, for machine learning: Python- scikit-learn; for statistical analysis: R, Statistica. In addition, IGiK has an access and experience in processing big data at Okeanos Supercomputing CrayXC40 (1084 x 2.6 GHz, 128 GB RAM), CreoDIAS and Amazon Web Services. IGiK has repositories of (1) NOAA/AVHRR data collected since 1997 by the Dartcom receiving station with a dedicated software for data capture and processing, and (2) Terra/Aqua MODIS, SPOT VEGETATION, Proba-V, Landsat TM, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 for the territory of Poland. In total, the Remote Sensing Centre of IGiK has 4 dedicated NAS servers (total 276 TB storage), and 115 TB in non-dedicated storage. IGiK also has extensive instrumentation for field measurements of biophysical parameters such as: LAI 2000/2200 Plant Canopy Analyzers, AccuPAR LP-80 solar radiation meters, TRIME-FM soil moisture probes, Chlorophyll content meters, handheld infrared thermometers, ASD FieldSpec spectroradiometers, Chlorophyll fluorometer, CO2 Chamber Flux system and portable meteorological stations. IGiK maintains two research areas. In Wielkopolska this is the JECAM international site, where ground- and satellite-based research on agriculture, crop growth, vegetation condition monitoring and satellite data calibration is conducted. The second area is located in the Biebrza valley and is used for satellite-based soil moisture retrieval, and analysis of changes in natural grassland vegetation and greenhouse gas fluxes. |
| Key research facilities, infrastructure, and equipment | Remote Sensing Centre is involved in many international projects (please see at http://www.igik.edu.pl/en/remote-sensing-projects). Moreover IGiK (co-)represents Poland in Copernicus User Forum, The European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL). |
| Intersectoral secondments options | |
| Other benefits | There is no further benefits we can provide in addition to POLONEZ-related ones. |
| Candidate sought | We seek a person with ambitious scientific proposal preferably related to satellite climatology, agriculture monitoring or interaction of land use and climate. A project that would exploit our resources for field measurements (LAI, soil moisture, energy balance, carbon flux) on agricultural land (JECAM) would be an advantage. Strong programming skills and interest in R, Python or GEE would allow to fit well into our team. |
| Have you hosted POLONEZ Fellows or MSCA IF Fellows before? | yes |
| Candidatures deadline | 2021-10-15 |
Contact | |
| First name | Jedrzej |
| Last name | Bojanowski |
| jedrzej.bojanowski@igik.edu.pl | |
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