Internship and thesis proposals
Can biodiversity be seen from space? Multiscale complexity in remote-sensing images to predict ecosystem trends.

Domaines
Statistical physics
Biophysics
Physics of living systems

Type of internship
Théorique, numérique
Description
A biodiverse landscape may not simply be greener or more heterogeneous. It may possess a distinctive organisation across scales: habitat mosaics, edges, corridors, characteristic patch sizes, lacunarity and long-range correlations. Aerial and satellite images preserve much of this geometry, yet standard ecological products often compress it into pixel classes or a few averages. The challenge is to determine whether multiscale observables carry robust ecological information and, as a possible extension, whether they reveal spatial reorganisation before visible degradation.

Contact
Michael Benzaquen
Laboratory : Econophysics Lab - ILB
Team : Econophysics Lab
Team Website
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