👋 Pleased to welcome our new PhD students and postdoc researchers: Carmen Oliver (@elliot-eu.bsky.social), Paula Costa (MeDiTwin Project), Kexuan Zhang, Paolo Frazzetto (Thinking Earth project), and Feini Huang. 👏 We're happy you are joining the ISP team!

✨ Ever wondered what life looks like inside the ISP lab? Here’s a quick peek at what we do! 🛰️ Our work spans across Earth observation, visual cognition, and societal dynamics. Take a glimpse into our daily work!

YA tenéis disponible un NUEVO PROGRAMA: “Inteligencia Artificial: Aplicaciones en Ciencia y Humanidades” Con Gustau Camps-Valls, físico y catedrático de Ingeniería Electrónica en la @uv.es @isp-uv-es.bsky.social Desde el IFIC go.ivoox.com/rf/161143333

➡️ Last week, part of our team delivered a series of courses in AI, explainability and modelling for environmental research as part of the MeDiTwin Project. 👥👏 Thanks to the Remote Sensing Lab of the National Technical University of Athens for organising and hosting these courses!

#ESA and #CIMR #L2PAD team met at ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, to discuss Level-2 algorithms for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer mission Launching in 2029, CIMR will deliver hi-res data on polar sea ice, oceans and land Led by MET Norway with @esa.int support.
 🔗https://github.com/CIMR-L2PAD

🎓 We’re proud to announce that Jordi Cortés Andrés, one of our PhD students, just defended his thesis: "Regularization in Machine Learning: Advances for Earth Sciences". 🥳 Congratulations on reaching this important milestone in your research journey!

👩‍🏫 This past week, our colleague @mariapiles.bsky.social was involved in the ceiA3 International Agri-Food Campus of Excellence, where she offered a course on passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture.

⏮️ Last week some of our colleagues attended the CIMR L2PAD workshop organized by the @icmcsic.bsky.social - CSIC. 👥 The activity brought together the community around open Level-2 algorithms and the Ground Processing Prototype for @esa.int's Copernicus CIMR mission.

👏 Big congrats to Gustau Camps-Valls on being named one of the AGU's 2025 Fellows by the @agu.org! ℹ️ This program recognizes AGU members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through breakthroughs, discoveries, or innovations in their field. #AGU25

🛰️🧑‍🏫 Last week, our colleagues Luis Gómez-Chova and Cesar Aybar attended the 4th IADF School and offered a workshop diving into trustworthy super-resolution for multispectral remote sensing images. 👐 Thanks to the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society for the opportunity! #EarthObservation

👥 This week, we welcomed Tobias Braun, from the Institute for Earth System Science & Remote Sensing (Leipzig University). 🌏 During his talk today, he discussed the potential of complexity science to bridge the gap between synoptic processes and planetary-scale dynamics. 🙌 Thanks for visiting us!

🆕 New paper out dissecting evapotranspiration (ET) dynamics across Central Europe under varying moisture conditions to better understand how drought impacts plant–atmosphere water fluxes. 🔗 Read it here: https://tr.ee/AssessingEvapotranspirationDynamics #ClimateScience #Drought

🆕 🗞️ New paper presenting a new global calibration of soil surface roughness for the SMOS-IC algorithm, which retrieves soil moisture and vegetation optical depth from passive L-band microwave satellite observations. 🔗 Read it here: tr.ee/NovelCalibrationoGlobalSoilRoughness #RemoteSensing

🧠 Some of our colleagues presented their work at #CCN2025 this month! 👥 This event brings together researchers in cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI to explore the computations behind complex behaviour. 🥳 Proud to see our team contributing to these conversations! 🧵

Postdoc in AI + Earth Science Join ELLIOT (€25M EU project) in València to build next-gen foundation models for climate + Earth data 🌍🤖 🔗 Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓 Deadline: Sept 15 #AI #Postdoc #ML #HorizonEurope #OpenScience #ELLIS @esa @esascience

🤔🏢 Have you ever wondered where the ISP team turns science into action? 👀 Take a peek inside our workspace, where Earth observation meets innovation!

👉New paper: "Understanding #flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets" 🌊This study presents a model generalization across different regions & satellite sensors. 📄 tr.ee/Understandin... 💻Code & models: github.com/kipoju/udl4fl #RemoteSensing

📢 New paper at @ioppublishing.bsky.social! "Sub-Seasonal Forest Carbon Dynamics Lose Persistence Under Extremes" ➡️ tr.ee/Sub-Seasonal... 🌳 Drought and heat can destabilize carbon exchange in ecosystems, with lasting impacts on forest resilience and recovery. #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange

🚨 Postdoc in AI + Earth Science Join ELLIOT (€25M EU project) in València to build next-gen foundation models for climate + Earth data 🌍🤖 🔗 Apply: forms.gle/gvhCQfLB4kko... 🗓 Deadline: Sept 15 #AI #Postdoc #ML #HorizonEurope #OpenScience #ELLIS @esa @esascience

Read it here for free rdcu.be/exjCO and Act... Mindfully!

🚀 Here's a short recap of our participation in #LPS25, where our team shared and presented a wide variety of research focusing on #AI and #EarthObservation. 🌍📡 Looking forward to the next symposium! 📹 youtu.be/D68Hjz-93ts

🗞️ New paper: "CloudRuler: Rule-based transformer for cloud removal in Landsat images". ☁️ Clouds can obstruct optical remote sensing, and CloudRuler tackles this by enhancing thin cloud removal using domain-specific remote sensing insights. 🔗 Read the full paper here: tr.ee/CloudRuler

✨ What a first half of the year it’s been! 👥 During this first semester, our team has been busy sharing knowledge, learning, & making connections through a variety of #AI, #Earthobservation and #remotesensing activities. 🔁 We'll keep going for the second half of 2025!

🎉 Big congrats to Gustau Camps-Valls for being awarded with the Blaise Pascal Medal 2025 in Earth and Environmental Sciences by the EurASc European Academy of Sciences! 📅 This award will be presented at the EurASc 25 Symposium at CERN in Geneva on 17-18 Dec. 🔗 www.uv.es/uvweb/uv-new...

Do we need a new #philosophy of #science for the #AI era? What if Popper, Feyerabend & von Glasersfeld sat with us to rethink falsifiability, pluralism & knowledge in the age of machines? Maybe it's time for a slower, humbler, more mindful science! 👉https://shorturl.at/xITyL

📻 Our colleague @mariapiles.bsky.social recently visited Oscilador Armónico Podcast to talk about her experience of collecting data about our planet from space, and explain how this helps us to understand what is happening on Earth. 🔗 www.ivoox.com/podcast-osci... 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/0dpc...

🏆 We're thrilled to announce that Jasdeep Singh (Khalifa University) has won the AMLEC with a final score of 1.525! ℹ️ As part of his award, his participation in #ECMLPKDD2025 will be covered ➡️ https://ecmlpkdd.org/2025 ⛅ More to come on this challenge! #DiscoveryChallenge2025

⏮️ Last week, part of our team presented key findings on crop yield modeling at the headquarters of the @fao.org  in Rome. 🗺️ The project’s main goal is to develop #machinelearning models capable of predicting crop yields in 87 countries worldwide.

🗣️Yesterday we kicked off #LPS25 with"Advanced AI for Extreme Event Analysis: Hands-on with the AIDE Toolbox" (María González & @miguelangelft.bsky.social). 🌍 About this tool: 💾 github.com/IPL-UV/AIDE/ 📜 tr.ee/AIDEToolbox ℹ️ aidextremes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

🚀 With just one week to go, the #DiscoveryChallenge2025 is tighter than ever! 📊 We have added a new training dataset with 10,000 samples so you can train more complex models. 🗓️ You can submit your model before June 30 ➡️ huggingface.co/datasets/isp...

🌈 Excited to attend & support #LPS25 with our LGTBI+ & climate stripes Celebrating diversity and science together! Come grab yours and show your colors! 💙💚💛❤️ #pride #ClimateAction #ShowYourStripes @LPS_conference @esa.int

🌈 Excited to contribute to the #LPS25! 🌎 Our group will be sharing and presenting part of our research at the Living Planet Symposium starting this Sunday in Vienna! 🔎 Take a look at what our members will be presenting! 🔗 See the full program: lps25.esa.int/programme

🚀 LDSR-S2 v1.0.0 IS NOW OFFICIALLY RELEASED! ➡️ The full codebase, pretrained weights, & documentation for our multispectral diffusion-based super-resolution model for Sentinel-2 are publicly available: 👉 Google Colab colab.research.google.com/drive/1NJuys... 🔗 GitHub github.com/ESAOpenSR/op...

🗣️ Our colleague Nathan Mankovich presenting "A Flag Decomposition for Hierarchical Datasets" at #CVPR2025 last weekend. ℹ️ Learn more about this flag-based method that decomposes arbitrary hierarchical data into a hierarchy-preserving representation: tr.ee/FlagDecompos...

🗓️ Only two weeks left! ➡️ Send your model and take part in the AMLEC. #DiscoveryChallenge2025 is an activity for the #ECMLPKDD2025 in the framework of ELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability project. ❗ UNTIL JUNE 30 🔗 Join us here: huggingface.co/datasets/isp...

👋 Chanh Kieu, Associate Professor at Indiana University-Bloomington, is visiting our lab. 🙏 We appreciate his insights into whether tropical cyclones exhibit chaotic dynamics at any stage of their development, using #machinelearning to explore the limits of their intensity predictability.

👥 This week we welcomed a delegation from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) and discussed mutual interests. 🤝 An occasion to explore opportunities for student and scholar exchange & discuss joint R&D activities focused on satellite-derived observations.

🌊 Happy #WorldOceansDay We do ocean science w/ remote sensing & AI - model ocean precursors of extremes - marine heat waves - biophysical param. retrieval - monitor marine ecosystems - ships & plastic detection - water quality & color types isp.uv.es 🌐🔬

⏩A decade of RTM advances has boosted speed, accessibility and integration in EO: 🔗 doi.org/10.3390/rs80... 🔗 amt.copernicus.org/articles/18/... 🧠Join the AMLEC: huggingface.co/datasets/isp... ➡️This week a new model was submitted by Magellium Artal Group. #ECMLPKDD2025 #DiscoveryChallenge2025

📚 Wrapping up May and our latest courses. 📊 Some of our colleagues introduced us to the foundations of probability & uncertainty, spanning classical to modern approaches. 🧠 From frequentist and Bayesian inference to mechanistic & #DeepLearning models.

Do we need a new #philosophy of #science for the #AI era? What if Popper, Feyerabend & von Glasersfeld sat with us to rethink falsifiability, pluralism & knowledge in the age of machines? Maybe it's time for a slower, humbler, more mindful science! 👉https://shorturl.at/xITyL

🛰️🌍🧪 A bottleneck in remote sensing of the atmosphere is the time that takes to derive parameters of interest from observations. Think of having the relevant information quickly delivered to initialize an atmospheric composition forecast or help fire managers. This is an effort to speed things up.

🤔Did you know that emulators can speed up satellite data processing while keeping high accuracy? 📄Read more about this topic: doi.org/10.1007/s109... 👉 Join us for the #DiscoveryChallenge2025 and help us to accelerate climate modeling! huggingface.co/datasets/isp... #ECMLPKDD2025

❗📅 Extended deadline: May 29th 👥 Several positions: - Postdoc ( Project 1: AI for Earth System Modeling) - PhD, Postdoc, Scientific Programmer (Project 2: Next-Gen Foundation Models) - PhD + Postdoc (Project 3 – AI for Scientific Discovery) 📝 Apply here: forms.gle/grkEhmXrDout...

🆕📰 New paper out that studies the #Calibration and the #Uncertainty of Deep Learning Models (DLM) for #Drought. ➡️ "Calibration and uncertainty quantification for deep learning-based drought detection" 🔗 Read it here: tr.ee/CalibrationAndUncertaintyQuantification

🧪 Today at the lab, we gathered to revisit some of the work our team presented at #EGU25. 🗣️ Several members shared their posters and insights, bringing the spirit of the conference home for those who couldn't make it to Vienna this year! 🧵

🏹 Job Alert: Join cutting-edge #AI & Earth Science projects at @isp-uv-es.bsky.social 🇪🇸 🔹 PhD, Postdoc & Programmer roles 🔹 Causal, hybrid & foundation models 🔹 Real-world climate impact 🌱 📍 València 📅 Apply by May 29 🔗 bit.ly/4k6uL3h #ClimateScience #PhDJobs #Postdoc

🌧️RTMs are essential tools in climate & Earth Sciences➡️Emulation of atmospheric RTMs offers a promising pathway for satellite data processing. 🔗Read +: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10413599  🙌Join: https://huggingface.co/datasets/isp-uv-es/rtm_emulation #DiscoveryChallenge2025 #ECMLPKDD2025

🌱 New paper introducing a causal & explainable AI framework to support sustainable agriculture, starting with Integrated Pest Management (IPM). 👩‍🌾 Farmers deserve robust, transparent & actionable advice (not just predictions). 🔗 Read it here: tr.ee/LeveragingCa...

🏅AMLEC Update👉Current winner in this week 15/05/2025👉Model Hugo from the ISP (https://isp.uv.es). ❗This challenge is a part of the #ECMLPKDD2025 & the winner will get covered the registration cost for the event. 💻https://huggingface.co/datasets/isp-uv-es/rtm_emulation  #DiscoveryChallenge2025