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[Research Seminar] 35 years of optical remote sensing in Geography

Title: 35 years of optical remote sensing in Geography: from Spitsbergen to Vietnam, from melting glaciers to vector-borne diseases, from Small to Big Data… what a story!

Time: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Venue: Room C204, VinUniversity

Introduction

What about the performance, readability and interpretations offered to us by the images provided by remote sensing? Are satellite images an undeniable, reliable tool in our mastery and appropriation of space? If not, what are its limits and what other method(s) to add to it? More specifically, how to use remote sensing to make it a safe, solid vector of data and information? Appearing as a critique – in the noble sense of the term – of remote sensing, reinforced by Dominique Laffly’s 35 years own practice, this seminar is part of an epistemological approach necessary for a human science awaiting ever greater efficiency and – let’s not be afraid of the word – useful for all of us.

Speaker’s Bio

Dominique Laffly is a geographer, Full Professor at the University of Toulouse since 2008, currently Science attaché at the French Embassy in Hanoi. He defended a Geography PhD at the University of Franche-Comté́ in 1995 on the integration of remote sensing in the quantitative analysis of landscapes. The thirteen years spent after at the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour as an assistant professor will be used to diversify the fields and themes with the aim of promoting operational methods of landscape analysis.

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