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Pierre Soille is affiliated with the Joint Research Centre in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on remote sensing applications in agriculture, land use, and ecosystems. They work at the intersection of data management, algorithms, and distributed computing systems applied to geospatial and remote sensing data.

The scientist's main fields of study include Environmental Science, with subfields such as Ecology, Computer Networks and Communications, Media Technology, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. The following main topics are frequently covered in their work:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote-Sensing Image Classification
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

They have contributed to multiple publication venues, notably:

  • Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • Data in Brief
  • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • Remote Sensing

Pierre Soille's recent papers include:

  • A global cloud free pixel-based image composite from Sentinel-2 data, 2020, Data in Brief
  • MORPHOLOGICAL SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS: OPEN SOURCE RELEASE, 2022, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
  • Special Issue on Big Data From Space, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • Parallel Processing Strategies for Geospatial Data in a Cloud Computing Infrastructure, 2022, Remote Sensing
  • Europe's Space capabilities for the benefit of the Arctic, 2020, Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pierre Soille include:

  • Pieter Kempeneers
  • Martino Pesaresi
  • Asturiol Bofill David
  • Cardona Melisande
  • Castillo Carlos

Best Publications

  • Watersheds in digital spaces: an efficient algorithm based on immersion simulations

    L. Vincent;P. Soille

  • Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications

    Pierre Soille

  • Morphological Image Analysis

    Pierre Soille

  • Morphological segmentation of binary patterns

    Pierre Soille;Peter Vogt

  • A Global Human Settlement Layer From Optical HR/VHR RS Data: Concept and First Results

    Martino Pesaresi;Guo Huadong;Xavier Blaes;Daniele Ehrlich

  • Advances in mathematical morphology applied to geoscience and remote sensing

    P. Soille;M. Pesaresi

  • Mathematical morphology and its applications to image processing

    Jean Serra;Pierre Soille

  • Constrained connectivity for hierarchical image partitioning and simplification

    P. Soille

  • Convolutional neural networks for global human settlements mapping from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery

    Christina Corbane;Vasileios Syrris;Filip Sabo;Panagiotis Politis

  • Directional morphological filtering

    P. Soille;H. Talbot

  • Assessment of the Added-Value of Sentinel-2 for Detecting Built-up Areas

    Martino Pesaresi;Christina Corbane;Andreea Julea;Aneta J. Florczyk

  • Carving and Adaptive Drainage Enforcement of Grid Digital Elevation Models

    Pierre Soille;Jürgen Vogt;Roberto Colombo

  • Information extraction from very high resolution satellite imagery over Lukole refugee camp, Tanzania

    S. Giada;T. De Groeve;D. Ehrlich;P. Soille

  • Determining watersheds in digital pictures via flooding simulations

    Pierre Soille;Luc M. Vincent

  • Recursive implementation of erosions and dilations along discrete lines at arbitrary angles

    P. Soille;E.J. Breen;R. Jones

  • A versatile data-intensive computing platform for information retrieval from big geospatial data

    Pierre Soille;A. Burger;D. De Marchi;Pieter Kempeneers

  • Automated basin delineation from digital elevation models using mathematical morphology

    P. J. Soille;M. M. Ansoult

  • Automated global delineation of human settlements from 40 years of Landsat satellite data archives

    Christina Corbane;Martino Pesaresi;Thomas Kemper;Panagiotis Politis

  • On the Validity of Fractal Dimension Measurements in Image Analysis

    Pierre Soille;Jean-François Rivest

  • Morphological gradients

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  • Morphological image compositing

    P. Soille

  • GHS-BUILT R2015B - GHS built-up confidence grid, derived from Landsat, multitemporal (1975, 1990, 2000, 2014)

    Martino Pesaresi;Daniele Ehrlich;Aneta Florczyk;Sergio Freire

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Colombo
Roberto Colombo University of Milano-Bicocca
Jürgen Vogt
Jürgen Vogt European Commission
Maria Luisa Paracchini
Maria Luisa Paracchini European Commission
Jean Serra
Jean Serra Mines ParisTech
Hugues Talbot
Hugues Talbot University of Paris-Saclay
Laurent Najman
Laurent Najman École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique
Paul F. Whelan
Paul F. Whelan Dublin City University
Gui-Song Xia
Gui-Song Xia Wuhan University
Jan Verbesselt
Jan Verbesselt Wageningen University & Research
Huadong Guo
Huadong Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences

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