Swiss Remote Sensing Days 2025
25 - 27 August 2025
Empa, Academy, Dübendorf
Location & Date
- Date: August 25th-27th, 2025
Start on Aug 25th at about 10:30h.
End on Aug 27th around noon. -
Location: Empa Academy, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf. The Academy is located on the Empa campus, which can easily be reached by bus (bus 960 from railway station Stettbach with stop in front of Empa) or by train (10 minute walk from railway station Dübendorf). Both Dübendorf and Stettbach can be reached from Zurich main station within about 10 minutes).
More details and options to reach Empa can be found here.
Accommodation
Key Topics
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Physics:
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Radiative transfer modelling
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Sensor development:
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Passive systems (multi and hyperspectral cameras, thermal and microwave radiometers), active systems (SAR, LiDAR); ground-based and mobile sensors, drones, airborne sensors, satellite mission development.
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Data processing:
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Image correction (geometric, atmospheric, sensor non-uniformities), photogrammetry, sensor fusion, machine learning and deep learning, physical based information retrieval, hybrid approaches.
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Process modelling:
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Mechanistic modelling and data assimilation for various purposes (e.g. glacier retreat, urban sprawl, land-atmosphere exchange processes, vegetation-climate feedbacks).
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Application development:
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All aspects across Earth spheres, e.g. alpine studies, forestry, climate change, glaciology, urban studies, science-policy interface.
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