Big Data Analytics for Earth Observation
Data Management and Machine Learning for Earth Observation
The mission of the Senior Research Group led by Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir is to develop innovative AI-driven solutions for diverse earth observation (EO) problems. With advances in satellite technology, EO data archives are continuously growing with high speed, delivering an unprecedented amount of data on the state of our planet over time. For example, via the Copernicus Programme – the European flagship satellite initiative in EO – Sentinel satellites acquire roughly 12 terabytes (TB) of satellite images per day, and the total size of the Copernicus data archives is almost 20 petabytes (PB). The “big EO data” is a great source of information that is relevant for several varying EO applications, as for example climate change analysis, urban area studies, forestry applications, risk and damage assessment, water quality assessment or crop monitoring. To address challenging problems in this field, the research activities of this group lie at the intersection of remote sensing, data management and machine learning.
A Digital Assistant for Digital Twin Earth
ESTIMATING PHYSICAL INFORMATION CONSISTENCY OF CHANNEL DATA AUGMENTATION FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Mind the Modality Gap: Towards a Remote Sensing Vision-Language Model via Cross-modal Alignment
Smart Sky: Transforming Earth Observation through AI
Through three engaging lectures, scientists from NASA, the Planetarium Berlin, and BIFOLD explained the significance of satellite images and modern AI techniques.
Photo recap: BIFOLD New Year's reception
At its New Year's reception BIFOLD welcomed a series of distinguished guests and friends from Berlin's AI community.
New open research positions
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Research Group Lead
Doctoral Researcher
Doctoral Researcher
Doctoral Researcher
Student Assistant
Doctoral Researcher