Sylvie Durrieu

Sylvie Durrieu received the M.Sc. degree in forest and plant biology from the University of Nancy, Nancy, France, in 1989, and the engineer degree and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (ENGREF-AgroParisTech), Paris, France, in 1989 and 1994, respectively, She received an accreditation to supervise research in Earth and Water Sciences from the University of Montpellier (ED N° 584) in 2018. From 1994 to 1999 she worked with the French National Forest Inventory (IFN) and carried out R&D in the field of remote sensing applied to forest inventory and mapping, focusing on optical imagery technology. Since 1999 she has been working with the INRAE, Montpellier, France. Her research interests include lidar technology for forest ecosystem monitoring. She has developed methods for characterizing and monitoring forest resources and biodiversity from 3-D lidar data. She was PI of LEAF (Lidar for Earth And Forests), a project of space lidar mission submitted to ESA in 2008, and supported by CNES since 2013 as a potential mid-term space mission.