Swiss Remote Sensing Days 2025

25 - 27 August 2025

Empa, Academy, Dübendorf

The Swiss Remote Sensing Days (SRSD) is a meeting for the Swiss remote sensing community, initialized by the Swiss Commission on Remote Sensing of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences. It is a platform for exchange between young and established researchers working to understand our environment and society through images acquired by a variety of sensors, from satellites in space to drones and cameras in mobile phones.​​​
During this three-day event, young researchers (typically PhD students) will interact with senior researchers, present their latest results, and participate in community-building activities that will prepare them for an active life in remote sensing.

Date & Location

  • Date: August 25th-27th, 2025
    Start on Aug 25th at 10:30h
    End on Aug 27th at 12:30h

  • Location: Empa Academy, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf. The Academy is located on the Empa campus, which can easily be reached by bus (bus 960 from railway station Stettbach with stop in front of Empa) or by train (10 minute walk from railway station Dübendorf). Both Dübendorf and Stettbach can be reached from Zurich main station within about 10 minutes).
    More details and options to reach Empa can be found here.

Accommodation and travel

Attendees have to cover their own travel and hotel expenses. We recommend one of the following hotels in close vicinity of Empa. Early reservation is recommended.

Key Topics

  • Physics:

    • Radiative transfer modelling

  • Sensor development:

    • Passive systems (multi and hyperspectral cameras, thermal and microwave radiometers), active systems (SAR, LiDAR); ground-based and mobile sensors, drones, airborne sensors, satellite mission development.

  • Data processing:

    • Image correction (geometric, atmospheric, sensor non-uniformities), photogrammetry, sensor fusion, machine learning and deep learning, physical based information retrieval, hybrid approaches.

  • Process modelling:

    • Mechanistic modelling and data assimilation for various purposes (e.g. glacier retreat, urban sprawl, land-atmosphere exchange processes, vegetation-climate feedbacks).

  • Application development:

    • All aspects across Earth spheres, e.g. alpine studies, forestry, climate change, glaciology, urban studies, science-policy interface.

Invited Speakers

Three top international speakers will complete the program, providing their insights into the advances in the field and inspiration for future careers in Earth Observations.

Registration

The registration deadline has been extended to Monday 28 July 2025. Please click here to register.

Abstracts for posters and highlight talks​​​

SRSD is an event for the Swiss community to share their science and results without the extra peer review burden of a traditional conference.

We solicit two types of abstract contributions:

1) Abstracts corresponding to papers recently published in scientific journals or to extended abstracts presented at major remote sensing or geoscience conferences.

2) Abstracts corresponding to recent conference contributions such as ESA Living Planet Symosium without extended abstracts.

Please upload a short abstract (max. 2500 characters). Please provide full bibliographic information if possible, and in case of a type 1) abstract, a link to an open access version of the paper.

Whether your contribution will be selected as poster or highlight talk will be decided by the program committee.

T​​​​o submit your abstract, please click here.

Program (preliminary)

The event will include keynote presentations from invited speakers, poster sessions each starting with lightning talks introducing the posters, hightlight talks, and social events including a hike and social dinner.

 

Registration

Click here to register

Abstract submission

Click here to submit your abstract

Deadline

30 June 2025

Costs

120 CHF/person (incl. VAT)
(incl. lunches, coffee breaks, social dinner
and apéro riche​​​)

Contact

Dominik Brunner