The team

A multidisciplinary team contributes to the development and validation of the SAFYE-CO2 model and AgriCarbon-EO processing chain. Our team covers a wide range of expertise, essential for the devellopment of complex tools. Our expertise include agronomy, hydrology, remote sensing, numerical methods, scientific computing, and field observation systems. We cherish this diversity as it is the backbone for sucess.

Dr.Eric Ceschia
Scientific lead
Research Director at CESBIO/INRAe. His research interest are centered arround the reduction of GHG in agriculture, carbon budget, covercrops, impact of albedo, energy budget.
Dr. Ahmad Al Bitar
Project manager
RI at CESBIO/CNRS. He organises the dev. of AgriCarbon-EO. He is expert in assimilation of RS data in crop models for agricultural and hydrological applications.
Dr. Ludovic Arnaud
Tier1 Carbon lead
RI at CESBIO/INRAe. He is expert in numerical methods applied for agronomy and remote sensing. He leads the Tier1 Carbon budget approaches for carbon farming, and contributes to the AgriCarbon-EO dev.
Dr.Rémy Fieuzal
Scientific Expert
Researcher at CESBIO/U. Paul-Sabatier. He is expert in agronomical modeling, RS in optical and radar and field observations. His research interest concerns covercrops and GHG reduction in agriculture.
Taeken Wijmer
PHD Candidat
Expert in agro-ecology & remote sensing. He has been actively develloping AgriCarbon-EO. His research interest is crop CO2 flux mapping at inter-field scale through  bayesian assimilation.
Dr. Morgan Ferlicoq 
Communication
Expert in advanced field observation systems in agriculture for GHG and impact of albedo in agriculture. She contributes to the validation. She is also in charge of the communication in the team.
Ainhoa Ihasusta
Engineer
As a traineed, Enginneer and soon PHD candidat, she has been investigating the use of Sentinel-2 based Empirical indicators of cropland Net Annual CO2 fluxes, and will be appling the SAFYE-CO2 and AgriCarbon-EO approach during her thesis.
Dr. Jean-François Dejoux
Observation systems
RI at CESBIO/CNRS. He is expert in agricultural systems and field observation. His research interest is crop CO2 flux mapping at inter-field scale through bayesian assimilation.









Previous contributors





The devellopment of the AgriCarbon-EO and SAFYE-CO2 current tools has span from earlier research activities that paved the way, like the works of  Dr. Amanda Veloso and Gaétan Pique who published with the team the first reports and papers SAFYE-CO2. More earlier studies on the SAFYE model from Benoit Duchemin, Martin Claverie, and Marjorie Battude, though they used a different approach and didn't include carbon budget, have also paved the way for the current advancements.  





A strong link with the field observatory 





The devellopement of the SAFYE-CO2 and AgriCarbon-EO tools requires an intensive ammount of data for the calibration and validation (cal/val). So, without a dedicated team for the regional observatory (OSR: Observatoire Spatiale Regional) and the EIS (Environmental Information System) at CESBIO supported by the INSU and the University Toulouse III, the calibration and validation of the tools would have not beed possible. We thank thus the colleagues from the OSR (Tiphaine Tallec, Franck Granouillac ,Aurore Brut, Valérie Demarez, Hervé Gibrin , Bartosz Zawilski...) for their continuous contribution to the validation and calibration datasets.  Similarly, we extend these thanks to all the colleagues and partners that shard valuable data with the team. 





 

                    

                                    

            

                    

        

            

                        
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Net Ecosystem Exchange of covercrops using AgriCarbon-EO [IGARSS’2022]

            
In July 2022, the AgirCarbon-EO approach for estimation of carbon budget of covercrops was presented by Ahmad Al Bitar at the IGARSS’2022, the flagship conference of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS).

        

        
    


                                        


    
	

                

                        
        


                	

    

        

            
Combining high-resolution remote sensing products with a crop model to estimate carbon and water budget components: application to sunflower.

            
Gaétan Pique, Rémy Fieuzal, Philippe Debaeke, Ahmad Al Bitar, Tiphaine Tallec, Eric Ceschia (2020) Remote Sensing. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3390/rs12182967 Abstract To meet the incoming growth of the world’s food needs, and the demands of climate change, the agricultural sector will be forced to adapt its practices. To do so, the contribution of agricultural fields to greenhouse gas […]

        

        
    


                                        


    
	

                

                        
        


                	

    

        

            
Estimation of daily CO2 fluxes and of the components of the carbon budget for winter wheat by the assimilation of Sentinel 2-like remote sensing data into a crop model. 

            
Gaétan Pique, Rémy Fieuzal, Ahmad Al Bitar, Amanda Veloso, Tiphaine Tallec, Aurore Brut, Morgan Ferlicoq, Bartosz Zawilski, Jean-François Dejoux, Hervé Gibrin, Eric Ceschia (2020) Geoderma, 376, 114428. DOI : http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114428 Highlights We developed a model estimating the components of the carbon budget for croplands. The model assimilates remote sensing products for up-scaling the carbon budget. Biomass, […]

        

        
    


                    	
            


                 
            

        

        
    

	

	
  
    
    





    

        
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