Geography | LiDAR | AI & Remote Sensing

Welcome on the personnal website of Rémi de Matos-Machado, Assistant Professor at Sorbonne Université in Geography & Geomatics.

Area of expertise

• Assessment of the geomorphological impacts of warfare (WWI, WWII, modern conflicts).
• Automated mapping (raster/vector, 2D/3D) using AI (object detection, semantic segmentation) and multivariate analysis.
• Point cloud processing and post-processing (classification, visualization techniques, DSM/DTM analysis, feature extraction).

Field sites

• WWI Verdun battlefield (Verdun Forest)
• WWI Somme battlefield (Ancre Valley)
• WWI Pas-de-Calais battlefield (Vimy Ridge)
• WWII Normandy battlefield (Pointe du Hoc)
• Northern and Northeastern France
• Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Photo credit: Sky-view factor of the Verdun battlefield (LiDAR data from the National Forest Office of Verdun).