Mission Flexx

Events

The FLEX project office organises annual FLEX user seminars and FLEX user workshops to inform scientific and non-scientific audiences and to jointly develop the German user concept.

 

Upcoming events

16.05.2025 FLEX user seminar

Using SIF to improve the GPP simulated by a land surface model

online

16.05.2025 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr. Fabienne Maignan and Dr. Cédric Bacour give a talk about how sun-induced fluorescence can be used to improve simulated GPP.

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10.06.2025 Conference

EGU Mary Anning Conference: Novel constraints on the coupling between the water and carbon cycles

TBA

10.06.2025 - 12.06.2025

The aim of this conference is to explore the relationship between water and the carbon cycle.

The further development of biogeochemical indicators, remote sensing observations, theoretical findings and modelling developments will be discussed and ways of cooperation will be identified and promoted. New methods and topics of interest include the linking of surface measurements and mechanistic processes, including products such as solar-induced fluorescence.

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23.06.2025 workshop

ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 - with strong FLEX presence

Austria Center Vienna, IAKW AG

23.06.2025 - 27.06.2025

The ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna will be exciting for future FLEX users. There are five sessions related to FLEX: Preparation for multimission assessment of the carbon cycle (Flex, BIOMASS and the Sentinel Expansion missions), Opportunities and challenges for global monitoring of photosynthesis from space, Global Carbon Budgets and Earth Observation, FLEX validation status and plans, Preparing for the FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) mission!

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FLEX User Seminars Annual Overview

Date Speaker Topic Language
21.04.23 Matthias Drusch FLEX - ESA's photosynthesis mission: introduction, status and developments DE
05.05.23 Uwe Rascher The red glow of plants - understand & measure chlorophyll fluorescence DE
26.05.23 Alexander Damm Fluorescence for water systems research: examples for aquatic and terrestrial environments DE
29.09.23 Miguel Morata Dolz Reconstruction of the full SIF spectral profile using emulation EN
23.02.24 Marin Tudoroiu An overview of the FLEX Collaborative Platform EN
24.05.24 Sebastian Wieneke
 Interpreting Sun-Induced chlorophyll Fluorescence under stress conditions EN
07.06.24 Thomas Kaminski
 The Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System

EN
06.09.24 Richard Hofmeister
 The FLEX CPF - Operational Payload Data Processing for Earth Explorer missions EN
13.12.24 Sophia Walther
 SIF in data-driven statistical estimates of terrestrial CO2 fluxes EN
11.04.25 Quan Zhang
 Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence sheds light on global evapotranspiration EN
16.05.25 Fabienne Maignan & Cédric Bacour
 Using SIF to improve the GPP simulated by a land surface model EN
TBA Shari Van Wittenberghe
 (preliminary) Retrieval of fluorescence quantum efficiency and NPQ-related xanthophyll absorption through spectral unmixing strategies EN