GEOCRI Webinar : Towards a Soil -Plant Digital Twin Integrating Pore- to Canopy-Scale Processes
Welcome to the GEOCRI Webinar section of our website, the GEO Cold Regions Initiative. Here, we proudly present an engaging and transformative event titled 'GEOCRI Webinar: Towards a Soil-Plant Digital Twin Integrating Pore- to Canopy-Scale Processes.' This interactive webinar aims to delve into the intricate dynamics and integration of ecological processes from micro to macro scales in the context of cold regions. Join us to explore groundbreaking research and insights from leading experts in the field.
- Date:01/23/2026 05:30 PM - 01/30/2026 12:18 PM
- Location Online Event
Description
Title: Towards a Soil -Plant Digital Twin Integrating Pore- to Canopy-Scale Processes
Speaker: Dr.Yijain Zeng / University of Twente
Time: 23 Jan 2026 ,17:30-19:00 Beijing time
Zoom: 157 731 062
Dr. Yijian Zeng Bio:
Dr. Yijian Zeng is an Associate Professor in Soil-Plant Digital Twin, ITC Faculty, University of Twente. He is currently the co-chair of International Soil Modelling Consortium, and serves as GEWEX-GLASS panel member, and co-leads the ISMC-GEWEX SoilWat Initiative. His research focuses on monitoring and forecasting ecosystem drought responses via a digital-twin framework that seamlessly integrates process-based models, Earth observation data, data assimilation, and physics-informed machine learning. As one of the lead developers for the unified multi-frequency forward-observation simulator (STEMMUS-SCOPE and CLAP). He probes land-surface water, energy, and carbon fluxes and their signatures across VNIR-SWIR-TIR-MW spectral domains. This simulator has been deployed in several PI/Co-I projects (WUNDER, EcoExtreML, iAqueduct, Minerva, NWO-NSO Kennisnetwerk-Water, PCP-WISE).
