2.5 The Department of Water Resources and EcoExtreML: A Digital Twin for Soil-Plant System
Channel: Center of Expertise in Big Geodata Science
Date: 06/12/2022

Dr. Yijian Zeng (Assistant Professor, ITC-WRS) talks about the Deparment of Water Resources (WRS) of the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), which is a multidisciplinary scientific department spacialising in scientific research and education in Earth Observation and geo-information sciences for the understanding, monitoring, predicting, and sustainable use and management of water resources. He introduces observation models development by the Department, its long-term monitoring sites for satellite data product validation, and related computation infrastructure, including GeoNETCast and ILWIS toolboxes. He also provides a detailed description of the EcoExtreML project, which aims accelerating process understanding for ecosystem functioning under extreme climates with physics-aware machine learning. The project, which is a collaboration between ITC and eScience Center, targets to develop an efficient "digital twin" for soil-plant system.