‘Call me Esmaeel’
I’m a Geospatial Researcher…
This is a personal space to share snapshots of interesting research projects, geospatial solutions, ideas, and life philosophies
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 (Work in progress…)
Assessment and prediction tools
Integrated Modeling
Novel algorithms: Physics Informed Neural Network (current)
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
Esmaeel Adrah
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