Jul 03, 2025
Eric Kosczor wins Young Scientist Award at the 44th EARSeL Symposium in Prague
At the end of May the 44th Symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) took place in the Czech capital, Prague. PhD students Eric Kosczor and Daniel Kinalczyk represented the Junior Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing with two presentations and a poster.
Eric Kosczor’s participation proved to be a real success. His presentation "Mapping Agricultural Landscape Heterogeneity over Six Decades: Automatic Field Segmentation Using Historic and Modern Remote Sensing Data," described his concept and results of his project on mapping landscape heterogeneity in agricultural areas using automatic segmentation of historical CORONA spy imagery. He was selected to take part in the Young Scientist Award session, in which six young scientists presented their current research. Afterwards, the audience selected Eric’s work as one of the top two presentations. Eric was thus one of the winners of this year's EARSeL Young Scientist Award. Congratulations, Eric!
Eric also presented current progress and results on anomaly detection in permanent
grasslands using Sentinel-2 from the research project 3C - Copernicus Cross Compliance (title: "Anomaly Detection in Permanent Grasslands for CAP Compliance Monitoring Using Sentinel-2") at the 3rd EARSeL Agriculture Workshop. In addition, Daniel Kinalczyk presented the initial results from his study on the effect of increasing bush encroachment on fuels and fire emissions in southern Africa. Daniel used a satellite-based data model fusion approach developed in the European Space Agency Sense4Fire research project (title: "Quantifying The Effect Of Bush Encroachment On Fuels And Fire Emissions In Southern Africa With A Satellite-based Data-model Fusion Approach.
For our Junior Professorship the conference was a great success, with both Daniel and Eric establishing valuable contacts with other international scientists in the field of remote sensing at the conference, engaging in several fruitful discussions. We’re also proud to have been included in the group of European remote sensing laboratories at the symposium and The Junior Professorship for Environmental Remote Sensing is now an EARSeL member!
