Launch of the Atlas of Changing Switzerland

Today, for the 10th anniversary of the Institute for Environmental Sciences of the University of Geneva, we are launching an interactive atlas allowing anyone to explore different sites across Switzerland looking at how the landscape has changed over the last two-three decades. This can help visualising and understanding how environmental changes such as climate, natural …

PhenoSwiss: Monitoring Land Surface Phenology over Switzerland using the Swiss Data Cube satellite Earth Observations time-series

We have received the good news that the project “PhenoSwiss: Monitoring Land Surface Phenology over Switzerland using the Swiss Data Cube satellite Earth Observations time-seriess” has been accepted. This project jointly lead by UNIGE/GRID (Dr. Gregory Giuliani) & UZH/RSL (Dr. Claudia Röösli) is supported by the UNIGE-UZH Joint Seed Funding. Since mid-December 2017 the University of …

Four scientific institutions will monitor Switzerland from space

The Swiss Data Cube (SDC) is an innovative technology that gathers all available satellite images from the American Landsat program and the European Sentinel 1 and 2. UNEP/GRID-Geneva, the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have ente- red a new …

6-month Postdoc position at University of Geneva

Are you an Environmental/Land Change specialist, Remote Sensing specialist, computer scientist or data scientist with Remote Sensing skills? Do you thrive in an interdisciplinary environment? Are you excited to explore new research areas at the interface of Environmental and Computer Sciences? Are you a proactive learner with a computational background? If so, this Postdoc position …