Welcome back to our podcast with your host, Roland Baatz. This episode features Gabrielle de Lannoy, an expert in remote sensing and data assimilation at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. Gabrielle has contributed to the soil moisture active passive satellite mission (SMAP) and focuses on understanding Earth’s land surfaces. Join us as we discuss the significance of remote sensing data and its application in monitoring and managing our environment. Tune in to gain insights into the evolving field of land surface analysis.