Dr Hervé YÉSOU
SERTIT, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg,
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg
Parc d'Innovation
Bvd Sebastien Brant
BP10413
F-67412 Illkirch Graffenstaden
France

Tel: +33(0) 3 90 24 46 43
Fax: +33 (0) 3 90 24 46 46
Email: herve (at) sertit.u-strasbg.fr
Website: http://sertit.u-strasbg.fr

Background

Hervé Yésou received his Ph.D in 1993 in "merging of remote sensing data for geological applications" from the University of Strasbourg.  A member of SERTIT', Herve Yesou is a remote sensing specialist in charge of the hazards and environmental applications. In the 90's, he participated to major EO programs through pilot projects on the exploitation of SAR and optical data: ERS1-2, SPOT 4 MIR and SPOT 5 SIR C/X-SAR for ADRO Radarsat. He was coordinator for an ENVISAT project on wetland monitoring in France and Poland as well as the ESA Water and Fire project on the exploitation of SAR time series and VHR optical data. He is now PI for  ALOS and Cosmo Skymed Pilot projects. Since 2000 he has been the external expert for CNES on the definition of VHR future sensors, participating to the ORFEO thematic group on Risks and Humanitarian. For CNES, he also conducted a study on thematic feasibility of GEO-LEO system for risk management. He has been the European leader of the Flood DRAGON project (2004-2008), he is now conducting the Wetland-Flood” DRAGON 2 project.

He is a key member of the SERTIT rapid mapping service, being involved in the Space and Major Disaster Charter action, triggered after major floods such as Gard 2002; Haiti 2004; Romania 2005, Katrina 2005, or earthquakes, Algers 2003, Tsunami 2004; Pakistan 2005, Central European Flooding 2006, Nargis-Maynmar 2008, Haïti 2008. He was also involved in few exercises for Civil Defence, EUROMED 2007, Richter 2008, or within the former EU GMOSS network (GNEX06, GNEX 07).
 

Activities in education

Herve YESOU has presented advanced courses on Image Processing, since the end of the 90's within the framework of cooperation projects in West Africa and Europe. In 2003, he also ensured a lectures and training in China on the exploitation of Earth Observation data for disaster rapid mapping in the framework of the Sino French Catachina project. He also regularly participated to seminars on the topics of natural hazards organized at master level, or for a wider public. He also participated to part of ESA Training courses: Lisbon 2007, Hanoi 2008, and recent ESA-MOST “Dragon 2 advanced Land Training course”, Wuhan 2008. Since 1990, he has supervised more than 18 research students to graduation (MSc) in optical and radar remote sensing applications.

Distinctions / Memberships

Hervé Yésou has been consulted as an expert on water and Remote sensing Programmes for international projects (Canada, Luxembourg, EU). He is an active member of the ESA Category-1 Advisory Group.
He has an important scientific journals reviewing activity: International and Remote Sensing, since 1995, Computer and Electonics in Agriculture, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, IEEE trans Rem. Sensing, Revue Télédétection. He is a member of the Redaction committee of Bulletin Société Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection
 

Selected publications

Since 1990, the obtained results lead to numerous publications with:

- Reviewed journal papers (17)
- Conference presentations / abstracts (more than 110)
- Scientific and technical reports (81)

ANDREOLI R. , YÉSOU Y. , LI J., DESNOS Y-L. , SHIFENG H. , DE FRAIPONT P, 2006 : Poyang Lake (Jiangxi Province, Pop. Rep. of China) Area Variations between January 2004 and June 2006 Using ENVISAT Low and Medium Resolution Time Series. Journ. GIS. Vol 13, 01-02, 24-35
LI JIREN, N YÉSOU H, MALOSTI R, ANDREOLI R, HUANG S , XIN J, CATTANEO , 2008: Near Real time exploitation of ENVISAT for flood monitoring in PR China during the 2005,2006 and 2007 raining and typhoons seasons. Final results of the Dragon Programme, ESA Special Publication (SP-655).

ANDREOLI R YÉSOU H, 2007: Assessment of the change detection procedure dedicated to flood monitoring using Wide Swath mode data. Final results of the Dragon Programme, ESA Special Publication (SP-655)

ALLENBACH B., BESSIS JL, FAVARD JC, S., BESTAULT C., CLANDILLON S., FELLAH K, HENRY J-B., MEYER C., SCIUS H., THOLEY N., YÉSOU H., DE FRAIPONT P : 2004 La filiére spatiale au service des risques. ISTED Systéme d'information géographique et gestion des risques. 85*-92.

YESOU H, C. MEYER, S. CLANDILLON et P. DE FRAIPONT, 2001 : Apport des futures données haute et très haute résolution du satellite SPOT 5 pour la gestion de l'espace : Bull. SFPT.164-165, 162-136.

YESOU H., C. MEYER, S. CLANDILLON et P. DE FRAIPONT, 2001 : Apport des données simulées SPOT 5 pour la gestion du risque inondation. Bull. SFPT. 151-161

MEYER C., P. GELDREICH et YESOU H., 2001 : Apport des données simulées SPOT 5 pour l'évaluation des dégâts de tempête dans la forât Cas de la forêt de Haguenau (Alsace, France) Bull. SFPT. 164-165,, 162-173.

YÉSOU H., P. CHASTANET, P. DE FRAIPONT,P. DOSSMANN, N. STOCK, J. BÉQUIGNON 2001:Mapping Floods in France, Backscatter ,vol 12, 3, 23_26.

HOUSSA R., PION J.C. and YESOU H., 1996 - Effects of granulometric and mineralogical composition on spectral reflectance of soils in sahelian area. J. Photogrammetry Remote Sensing, 51, 284-298

YESOU H., BESNUS Y. et ROLET J., 1994 - Perception of a geological body using multisources remotely sensed data - The relative influence of the spectral content and of the spatial resolution. Int. Jour. Remote Sensing, 15, 12, 2495-2510.

YESOU H., BESNUS Y. et ROLET J., 1993 - Extraction of spectral information from Landsat TM data and merger with SPOT panchromatic imagery. A contribution to the study of geological structures. ISPRS, J. Photo Remote Sensing, 48, 23-36.

YESOU H., BESNUS Y., ROLET J., PION J.C. et AING A., 1993 - Merging SEASAT and SPOT imagery for the study of geological structure in a temperate agricultural region. Rem Sens Environment , 43, 265-279