Mathilde Letard

Mathilde Letard is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), working within the Professorship of Remote Sensing Applications under Prof. Dr. Katharina Anders. She is also a member of the Graduate Center for Postdocs at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation since January 2025 and previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Rennes and as a Visiting Researcher at ESA φ-lab in Italy.

Her research focuses on the intersection of AI, computer vision, and Earth observation, with particular expertise in processing 3D point clouds and lidar waveform data. She specializes in developing methods for coastal and marine environment monitoring, including bathymetric analysis, habitat mapping, and seagrass meadow assessment. Her work bridges advanced machine learning techniques with practical environmental applications.

Letard's publication record shows a consistent focus on applying deep learning to lidar data processing, with recent work emphasizing explainable AI approaches for 3D point cloud classification and temporal analysis of coastal environments. Her research demonstrates strong technical skills in developing computational methods for environmental remote sensing.

She actively contributes to open-source geospatial tools, notably as a co-author of the lidar_platform Python library for point cloud processing developed by the Rennes LiDAR Platform. Her GitHub profile shows active contributions to repositories related to lidar waveform processing and 3D point cloud analysis.