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French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development

Institution

The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) is the pre-eminent French research organisation dedicated to sustainable development in, for and with Southern developing countries and overseas territories. It is a not-for-profit government-funded public organisation whose general mission is to conduct research and research training with a view to promoting the economic, social and cultural development in the Southern countries. The IRD consist of 57 research laboratories, located and operating jointly with academic partners in France, in the French overseas territories and in 35 countries in Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Latin America and the Pacific area. About 45% of the IRD workforce works outside France.

The joint unit ESPACE-DEV (Expertise and Spatialisation of knowledge for Environment for Sustainable Development) aims to respond to the major development challenges regarding societies and human health, the earth, the environment and living resources.

Research expertise

Internationally recognised as a multidisciplinary organisation, through its network, it brings an original research approach, expertise, training and knowledge sharing for the benefit of the territories and countries that make science and innovation one of the first levers of their development.

Role in PHIDIAS

The IRD will be involved in the use case about big data earth observations aimed at processing on-demand services for environmental monitoring, with the overall objective of enhancing the scalability of Earth Observation data processing chains and disseminating in a FAIR manner the mapping products for environmental monitoring coming from the end-users.

 


Team


Chief Information Security Officers
Pape Sonko

Pape Sonko

Security Committee Member
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Geomatic Scientist
Jean-Christophe Desconnets

Jean-Christophe Desconnets

PHIDIAS WP5 leader and WP1, WP5, WP7 Member
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Jean-Christophe Desconnets (M) is a senior engineer at the IRD. He is a geomatic scientist at MICADO research team of ESPACE-DEV. He has two complementary competencies: one in water science (PhD in Water Science, Montpellier University, 1994) and one in computer science (MSc in computer science, Montpellier University, 2000). He has specialized in Spatial Data Infrastructure design with an emphasis on semantic discovery and data processing capabilities. He has participated as WP leader or co-leader in different projects, where he has mainly led the design and implementation of the technical part of spatial data infrastructure. His research activities concern the needs of data and knowledge sharing to provide to the stakeholders with elements for decision support in the environmental domain. He is also involved in the French national land data centre, THEIA, where he leads the data and processing interoperability works with the CNES.

Research Engineer
Rémi Cresson

Rémi Cresson

PHIDIAS WP5 Member
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Rémi Cresson (M) received an M. Sc. in electrical engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG) in 2009. He works at the IRSTEA (French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture), involved in the research and development in the field of remote sensing image processing, including (but not restricted to) High Performance Computing and geospatial data infrastructures.

Geo-Informatics and Information Systems Engineer
Laurent Demagistri

Laurent Demagistri

PHIDIAS WP5 Member
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Laurent Demagistri (M) is an engineer in scientific and geomatic computing. He has specialised in Remote Sensing and Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its main activities consist of developing workflows for processing satellite images and managing databases of value-added products. His areas of expertise cover the calibration and registration of data, the extraction of biogeophysical parameters, the detection of objects or processes. In addition, he has teaching and supervision experience in remote sensing and is responsible for several years of remote sensing courses/TP in several teaching structures (at Master's level).

Research Engineer, UMR Espace-Dev
Thibault Catry

Thibault Catry

PHIDIAS WP5 Member
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Thibault Catry (M) joined the IRD in 2013 after a European PhD in Physical Modeling for the Protection of the Environment and Earth Sciences (volcanology speciality) in joint supervision between the University of Bologna (Italy) and La Réunion. He is part of the Space Observation Environment (OSE) team of the UMR Espace-Dev (Space for Development), within the House of Remote Sensing in Montpellier. A specialist in RADAR remote sensing, he develops methodologies for processing Earth observation data for the production of spatialized indicators dedicated to the study of the Spatio-temporal dynamics of environmental processes. Its activities combining RADAR and optical data apply to the fields of the environment/health, hydrology.

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