About

• Occupation: Senior Research Scientist
• Institution: Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
• Unit: Nature Solutions
• Located: Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
• Academic title: Docent
• PhD degree: University of Helsinki (Finland), Department of Forest Sciences
• Expertise:
  • characterization of managed forests in land surface models
  • description of (boreal) forests in global land cover products
  • remote sensing (optical satellite data, airborne laser scanning)
  • fraction of absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fPAR)
  • National Forest Inventory (NFI), forest management
  • Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • field measurements, ground validation
  • forest dynamics modeling
  • boreal forest phenology
  • boreal forest biodiversity
  • vegetation spectra
  • Leaf Area Index (LAI)

Fieldwork during summer 2020 in southern Estonia. Me standing with field plot marking sticks (a), colleague setting up laser scanner (Leica P40) (b), and we having a break for drinking and removing ticks (c). I thank my colleagues for providing the images.

Fieldwork using LAI-2000 device (a-b), camera with hemispherical lens (c), ASD spectrometer and reference
panel (d,e), and PASTIS device (f). I thank my colleagues for providing the images.