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The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) was launched on April 1st 2022 and is currently acquiring hyperspectral images of hitherto unknown quality all across the Globe.

In this project, the Department of Geography at the LMU in Munich is supporting the scientific exploitation of the mission, by developing state-of-the art retrieval algorithms for biochemical and biophysical variables and by demonstrating EnMAP's capabilities for agricultural use cases.

For example, the development of so-called hybrid retrieval schemes, which combine the predictive power of radiative transfer models with the computational efficieny of machine learning algorithms to infer biophysical and biochemical information from hyperspectral images, is one of the major fields of research in our group.

The development of algorithms is supported by exhaustive in-situ sampling campaigns. Many of our students of Geography are contributing to these field measurements. With their help, the validation of EnMAP Level-2A and Level-3 data products are validated.

In April 2025, we will host a large international EnMAP-Workshop here at LMU.