The seminar of OBELIX team is currently held on thursdays 11:30 am, every two weeks, at the IRISA lab, Tohannic campus (bat. ENSIBS). Usually, the presentation lasts 30 min and is followed by a discussion with the team.
The seminar is coordinated by Yann CABANES: Please contact me for any information or if you want to present your work to our team.
Previous seminars
2019 / 2019-20 / 2020-21 / 2021-22 / 2022-23 / 2023-24 / 2024-25 / 2025-26
Upcoming seminars (2026-27)
Workshop Geospatial Foundation Models and Earth Observation
October 13, 2026 in the lecture hall A103, Simone Veil building, UBS, Vannes
Organisers: UBS Vannes, France and INPE, São Paulo, Brazil; in the context of a CAPES-COFECUB project
Programme
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Opening (Karine/Charlotte)
10:10 – 10:40 Scientific Presentation #1 : Sébastien Lefèvre (UBS)
“Geospatial Foundation Models: A new hope or a new hype?”
10:40 – 11:10 Scientific Presentation #2 : Rolf Simoes (INPE)
“Building regional embeddings from SITS at large scale”
11:10 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Official team seminar : Karine Reis Ferreira (INPE)
“Brazil Data Cube: A public cloud computing platform for environmental monitoring from big EO data”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (buffet)
14:00 – 14:30 Scientific Presentation #3 : Mario Hamon (UBS)
“Distilling Geospatial Foundation Models in Earth Observation”
14:30 – 15:00 Scientific Presentation #4 : Gilberto Camara (INPE)
“The challenges of mapping tropical forest degradation”
15:00 – 15:30 Scientific Presentation #5 : Sylvain Colomer (UBS)
“Forest trait monitoring in Canada forest”
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:15 Scientific Presentation #6 : Alby Rocha (INPE)
“Beyond alert: spatio-temporal tradeoffs in NRT detection systems for forest disturbances in the Brazilian Amazon”
16:15 – 16:45 Scientific Presentation #7 : Charlotte Pelletier (UBS)
“Spatial and temporal transferability of embeddings for crop-type classification”