CV Cemal Melih Tanis
Fields of expertise
Service and project management
Development, maintenance, and validation of webcam-derived products
Development, maintenance, and validation of satellite-derived products
Software development
Data repository maintenance
User uptake
Web page/app design and maintenance
Workshop organization
Capacity building and assessment for scientific data
Thematic fields: Snow, vegetation
Projects
FMIPROT
ESA QA4EO IDEAS+
EEA CLMS HRSI
E-Shape HOPS
Interreg BalticSatApps
COST Harmosnow
EU LIFE+ MONIMET
FP-7 SEN3APP
EUMETSAT H-SAF
TEKES SPARK
FP-7 CORE-CLIMAX
University and other degrees
Master of Science in Space Science and Technology, January 2020, Aalto University; Espoo, Finland
Bachelor of Science in Electronics, September 2013, Istanbul Technical University; Istanbul, Turkey
List of publications
Mortimer C, Mudryk L, Derksen C, Brady M, Luojus K, Venäläinen P, Moisander M, Lemmetyinen J, Takala M, Tanis C, Pulliainen J. Benchmarking algorithm changes to the Snow CCI+ snow water equivalent product. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2022 Jun 1;274:112988.
Bongio, M., Arslan, A. N., Tanis, C. M., and De Michele, C.: Snow depth time series retrieval by time-lapse photography: Finnish and Italian case studies, The Cryosphere, 15, 369–387, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-369-2021, 2021.
Beamish, A., Raynolds, M.K., Epstein, H., Frost, G.V., Macander, M.J., Bergstedt, H., Bartsch, A., Kruse, S., Miles, V., Tanis, C.M. and Heim, B., 2020. Recent trends and remaining challenges for optical remote sensing of Arctic tundra vegetation: A review and outlook. Remote Sensing of Environment, 246, p.111872.
Tanis, C.; Operational monitoring of snow cover using digital imagery, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, 2020.
Piazzi, G.; Tanis, C.M.; Kuter, S.; Simsek, B.; Puca, S.; Toniazzo, A.; Takala, M.; Akyürek, Z.; Gabellani, S.; Arslan, A.N. Cross-Country Assessment of H-SAF Snow Products by Sentinel-2 Imagery Validated against In-Situ Observations and Webcam Photography. Geosciences 2019, 9, 129.
Tanis, C.M., Peltoniemi, M., Linkosalmi, M., Aurela, M., Böttcher, K., Manninen, T. and Arslan, A. N., (2018). A system for acquisition, processing and visualization of image time series from multiple camera networks, Data, 3(3), 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/data3030023
Pirazzini, R., Leppänen, L., Picard, G., Lopez-Moreno, J.I., Marty, C., Macelloni, G., Kontu, A., von Lerber, A., Tanis, C.M., Schneebeli, M., de Rosnay, P. and Arslan, A. N., (2018). European In-Situ Snow Measurements: Practices and Purposes. Sensors, 18(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/s18072016
Peltoniemi, M., Aurela, M., Böttcher, K., Kolari, P., Loehr, J., Karhu, J., Linkosalmi, M., Tanis, C. M., Tuovinen, J.-P., and Arslan, A. N., (2018). Webcam network and image database for studies of phenological changes of vegetation and snow cover in Finland, image time series from 2014 - 2016. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-173-2018
Peltoniemi, M., Aurela, M., Böttcher, K., Kolari, P., Loehr, J., Hokkanen, T., Karhu, J., Tanis, C. M., Metsämäki, S., Tuovinen, J., Vesala, T. and Arslan, A. N. (2017). Networked web-cameras monitor congruent seasonal development of birches with phenological field observations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.008
Arslan, A., Tanis, C., Metsämäki, S., Aurela, M., Böttcher, K., Linkosalmi, M., Peltoniemi, M. (2017). Automated Webcam Monitoring of Fractional Snow Cover in Northern Boreal Conditions. Geosciences, 7(3), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences7030055
Linkosalmi, M., Aurela, M., Tuovinen, J.P., Peltoniemi, M., Tanis, C.M., Arslan, A.N., Kolari, P., Böttcher, K., Aalto, T., Rainne, J., Hatakka, J., Laurila, T. (2016). Digital photography for assessing the link between vegetation phenology and CO2 exchange in two contrasting northern ecosystems. Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 5(2), 417–426. https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-417-2016
Zeng, Y., Su, Z., Calvet, J.C., Manninen, T., Swinnen, E., Schulz, J., Roebeling, R., Poli, P., Tan, D., Riihelä, A., Tanis, C.M., Arslan, A.N., Obregon, A., Kaiser-Weiss, A., John, V.O., Timmermans, W., Timmermans, J., Kaspar, F., Gregow, H., Barbu, A.L., Fairbairn, D., Gelati, E., Meurey, C. (2015). Analysis of current validation practices in Europe for space-based climate data records of essential climate variables. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 42, 150–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.06.006