
Position: Scientist
Branch: Department of Remote Sensing
Workplace: ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.Bělidla 4aBrno603 00
Email: homolova.l@czechglobe.cz
Phone: +420 511 192 227
Research Focus
- Remote sensing of vegetation
- Imaging and field spectroscopy
- Measurements of leaf optical properties
- Interactions among optical, structural and ecophysiological leaf properties
- Radiative transfer modelling for interpretation of remote sensing images
- Retrieval methods of vegetation properties from remote sensing
Education
Ph.D. studies (2008 – 2013) at Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Ph.D. thesis on the topic of imaging spectroscopy for ecological application in forest and grassland ecosystems was supervised by Prof. M.E. Schaepman and Dr. J. Clevers.
M.Sc. studies (1999 – 2006):
Landscape engineering at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Geo-information and remote sensing at Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Master thesis on the topic of leaf area index estimation for Norway spruce forest by means of radiative transfer modelling and imaging spectroscopy was supervised by Prof. M.E. Schaepman and Dr. Z. Malenovsky
Appointments
2014 – současnost: Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic, since 2018 leader of Remote Sensing department
2011 – 2012: Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2010 – 2011: Dep. of geoinformatics and remote sensing, University of Warsaw, Poland
2008 – 2010: Specim Ltd., Oulu, Finland
2005 – 2008: Institute of systems biology and ecology, AS CR, Brno, Czech Republic
Important research visits and fellowships
- Early stage researcher within Marie Currie Research Training Network Hyper-I-Net
- Erasmus student exchange programme at Wageningen University
Membership
Marie Curie Alumni Asssociation
Brief scientometrics
Publication overview: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7455-2834
28 peer-reviewed publications, H-index 12 (according to WoS, 10/2022)
Selected publications:
Homolová L, Schaepman ME, Lamarque P, et al. (2014) Comparison of remote sensing and plant trait-based modelling to predict ecosystem services in subalpine grasslands. Ecospheres 5(8): art100. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES13-00393.1
Homolová L, Malenovský Z, Clevers JGPW, García-Santos G, Schapeman ME (2013) Review of optical-based remote sensing for plant trait mapping. Ecological Complexity 15: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2013.06.003