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Matti Mõttus

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2745-1966
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20002020

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Short bio

Dr. Matti Mõttus is a Principal Scientist at VTT in Remote Sensing team. His areas of expertise include hyperspectral remote sensing, and mapping of vegetation structure and functioning using remote sensing data.  He is a member of the Mission Advisory Group for ESA’s FLEX satellite mission and an official collaborator on EPIC DSCOVR vegetation products developed by Boston University (prof. Yuri Knyazikhin). Dr. Mõttus is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science, section Technical Advances in Plant Science. He has acted as the Principal Investigator (PI) of three research projects funded by Academy of Finland (total budget 3M€), including an ongoing consortium project for AI application in forest mapping, and participated in numerous other national and international projects related to remote sensing. 

Research interests

Information on my research projects, datasets and computer code can be found at the dedicated GitHub page.

My research interests include

  • Remote sensing of vegetation structure and functioning
  • Radiative transfer in vegetation canopies and forest reflectance models
  • Combining artificial intelligence and physical models 
  • Hyperspectral remote sensing
  • Photosynthetically Active Radiation
  • Optical field spectroscopy
  • Quantification of vegetation structure
  • Theory of spectral invariants in radiative transfer theory 
  • Photochemical Refelctance index and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

Education/Academic qualification

Physical sciences, Doctorate, University of Tartu

1 Sep 2000 → 1 Dec 2004

Award Date: 1 Dec 2004

External positions

Academy of Finland Research Fellow, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

1 Sep 2016 → 31 Dec 2018

Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography

1 Sep 2013 → 31 Aug 2016

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography

1 Jan 2010 → 31 Aug 2013

title of docent, University of Helsinki

12 Nov 2009 → …

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Resource Management

1 Jul 2009 → 31 Dec 2009

postdoctoral researcher, short contracts, total 6 months, University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Research Management

1 Jan 2007 → 31 Dec 2008

Senior Research Associate, Tartu Observatory

1 Aug 2006 → 30 Jun 2009

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Ecology

1 Jun 2005 → 31 Jul 2006

Research fellow, Tartu Observatory

1 Jun 2004 → 31 May 2005

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