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Biography

I hold a PhD in Geography and have more than 20 years of experience in using geospatial and Earth Observation data for the analysis of the impact of human activities. After obtaining my PhD in Geography from the University of Strasbourg, France, I have been working at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre for 13 years on applications in the environmental and agricultural domain as well as applications on urban environments and disaster management. During the last six years at JRC I was working on satellite-based mapping for disaster management under the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. Since January 2021 I am working as project manager at Planet Labs where I am responsible for a portfolio of Earth Observation research and innovation projects covering a range of development levels, from lab-based research, through demonstration to market uptake. Since November 2022 I am leading the Analytics R&D team under the EO Lab. Common to all projects is the use of innovative technologies such as AI for extracting information from Planet’s high cadence imagery to support environmental and agricultural monitoring.

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Employment (2)

Planet Labs Germany GmbH: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2021-01-01 to present | Team lead Analytics R&D (Earth Observation Lab)
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Joint Research Centre: Ispra, IT

2007-12 to 2020-10 | Post-doctoral Grantholder (3 years), Data Analyst (2.5 years), Scientific Project Officer (2.5 years), Team lead Copernicus EMS Mapping (3.5 years)(4 years)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Strasbourg: Strasbourg, FR

2002 to 2007 | PhD student, research assistant, lessons in remote sensing (Geography)
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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: Halle, DE

1995 to 2002 | Diplom Geograph (Geosciences)
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Works (12)

Detection of Maize Crop Phenology Using Planet Fusion

Remote Sensing
2024-07-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Caglar Senaras; Maddie Grady; Akhil Singh Rana; Luciana Nieto; Ignacio Ciampitti; Piers Holden; Timothy Davis; Annett Wania
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Geography-Aware Masked Autoencoders for Change Detection in Remote Sensing

2023-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Lukas Kondmann; Caglar Senaras; Yuki M. Asano; Akhil Singh Rana; Annett Wania; Xiao Xiang Zhu
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Self-supervised learning for crop classification using Planet Fusion

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLVIII-M-1-2023 39th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE-39)
2023-04-26 | Conference poster | Project administration, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Caglar Senaras; Piers Holden; Timothy Davis; Akhil Singh Rana; Maddy Grady; Annett Wania; Richard de Jeu
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RapidAI4EO: A Corpus for Higher Spatial and Temporal Reasoning

2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS
2021 | Conference paper | Supervision, Project administration
Contributors: Annett Wania; Giovanni Marchisio; Patrick Helber; Benjamin Bischke; Timothy Davis; Caglar Senaras; Daniele Zanaga; Ruben Van de Kerchove; Annett Wania
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A multi-format dataset for automated land cover classification and change detection

2021 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’21)
2021-05 | Conference paper | Supervision, Project administration
Contributors: Timothy Davis; Benjamin Bischke ; Patrick Helber; Giovanni Marchisio; Caglar Senaras; Daniele Zanaga; Ruben Van de Kerchove; Annett Wania
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Increasing Timeliness of Satellite-Based Flood Mapping Using Early Warning Systems in the Copernicus Emergency Management Service

Remote Sensing
2021-05-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
Contributors: Annett Wania; Inès Joubert-Boitat; Francesco Dottori; Milan Kalas; Peter Salamon
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L’utilisation des services cartographiques numériques d’urgence par satellite à des fins de sécurité intérieure

Annales des Mines - Responsabilité et environnement
2019 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1268-4783
Part of ISSN: 2271-8052
Contributors: Stéphanie Battiston; Stephen Clandillon; Robin Faivre; Claire Tinel; Annett Wania
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Farmland abandonment in Europe: Identification of drivers and indicators, and development of a composite indicator of risk

Land Use Policy
2015-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0264-8377
Contributors: Jean-Michel Terres; Luigi Nisini Scacchiafichi; Annett Wania; Margarida Ambar; Emeric Anguiano; Allan Buckwell; Adele Coppola; Alexander Gocht; Helena Nordström Källström; Philippe Pointereau et al.
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Mapping recent built-up area changes in the city of Harare with high resolution satellite imagery

Applied Geography
2014-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0143-6228
Contributors: Annett Wania; Thomas Kemper; Dirk Tiede; Peter Zeil
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Analysing the influence of different street vegetation on traffic-induced particle dispersion using microscale simulations

Journal of Environmental Management
2012-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0301-4797
Contributors: Annett Wania; Michael Bruse; Nadège Blond; Christiane Weber
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Comparison between two coevolutionary feature weighting algorithms in clustering

Pattern Recognition
2008-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-3203
Contributors: P. Gançarski; A. Blansché; A. Wania
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Plant richness patterns in agricultural and urban landscapes in Central Germany—spatial gradients of species richness

Landscape and Urban Planning
2006-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0169-2046
Contributors: Annett Wania; Ingolf Kühn; Stefan Klotz
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