Esmaeel Adrah
I’m a Geospatial Researcher…
This is a personal space to share snapshots of interesting research projects, geospatial solutions, and interesting ideas
Focus Areas
Themes
Themes
Water, climate, conflict nexus
Disasters assessment and monitoring (Droughts, Wildfire..)
Agriculture resilience: Assessing Irrigation changes and crop loss
Human-Environment Interactions
Geospatial solutions
Remote Sensing and GeoAI
Water: assessing long-term irrigation extent; irrigation volume estimation
Assessing crop loss
Biomass: Modeling forest above ground biomass accumulation
Wildfire: wildfire risk mapping and next day fire prediction
Mapping tools: Tree crops
Modeling
Modeling
Planetary Causal Inference
Assessment and prediction tools
Integrated Modeling
Novel algorithms: Physics Informed Neural Network
Latest blog posts..
SAM 3 for Satellite time series animation
- SAM3: Possible EO applications and use case (Smoke..)
- The challenge of adapting Foundation Models for EO
- Early adaptation and future opportunities
- Read blog post here
Insights into Satellite Embeddings in the Geospatial workflow
- The power of Embeddings and what they are Not
- Fundamental challenges & controversies with embeddings
- Exciting applications
- Read blog post here
Exploring Earthquake building damage with Satellite Embeddings
- AlphaEarth embeddings similarity has a potential to be used to detect building damage: a real world example
- Temporal resolution of embeddings is the key challenge
- Read blog post here
A well intended bad idea could be as harmful as a dismal one… discuss a bad idea when you see one
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