CV Cemal Melih Tanis

• 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

• EEA CLMS HRWSI

• EEA CLMS HRSI

• FMIPROT - Webcam processing platform - Camera Network Portal - Snow detection pilot project - Snow roughness / BRDF pilot for FMI solar panels

• ESA QA4EO-2

• ESA QA4EO IDEAS+

• ESA QA4EO

• JRC CLMS Globland (SWE)

• EUMETSAT H-SAF

• ESA Snow CCI

• E-Shape HOPS

• ERA4CS INDECIS

• Interreg BalticSatApps

• COST Harmosnow

• EU LIFE+ MONIMET

• FP-7 SEN3APP

• TEKES SPARK

• FP-7 CORE-CLIMAX

• PhD Student in Telecommunication Engineering (Machine Learning Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence with Applications), September 2025, cont'd., University of Vaasa; Vaasa, Finland.

• 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

Tanis, C.M., Lindgren, E., Frey, A., Latva, L., Arslan, A.N. and Luojus, K., 2023. Use of Webcams in Support of Operational Snow Monitoring. Geosciences , 13 (3), p.92. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13030092 Linkosalmi, M., Tuovinen, J.P., Nevalainen, O., Peltoniemi, M., Taniş, C.M., Arslan, A.N., Rainne, J., Lohila, A., Laurila, T. and Aurela, M., 2022. Tracking vegetation phenology of pristine northern boreal peatlands by combining digital photography with CO 2 flux and remote sensing data. Biogeosciences Discussions, 2022, pp.1-46. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4747-2022

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

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