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Field campaigns, conferences, new publications, and milestones from the Global Change Unit.

Conference 2026-05

GCU at ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025

Members of the group presented results from the IPL-HRTM project at the ESA Living Planet Symposium, showcasing new LST retrieval algorithms for the LSTM mission.

Field Campaign 2025-09

Calibration Campaign in Southern France

Intensive field campaign organized by CNES for the TRISHNA mission. GCU team deployed radiometers and flux stations to validate surface temperature retrieval algorithms.

Station 2025-06

New Cal/Val Station Installed in La Mudarra, Valladolid

A new permanent monitoring station has been installed at the CIBA meteorological tower (100 m) at the University of Valladolid, integrated into the ICOS network.

Publication 2025-03

New Article on Urban Heat Island Mapping

Our latest research on Surface Urban Heat Island monitoring using ECOSTRESS data has been published in Urban Climate.

PhD Defense 2024-12

Danilo Mejía Coronel Defends PhD Thesis

Danilo Mejía Coronel successfully defended his doctoral thesis on tropospheric air quality in Ecuador using satellite imagery.

Conference 2024-09

GCU at IGARSS 2024

Two presentations at IGARSS 2024 covering LST algorithm development and evapotranspiration estimation from high-resolution thermal data.