Rate My Professor Miina Rautiainen

Rautiainen serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the Center of Excellence in Peatlands, Climate Change and Ecological Restoration (2026–2033), funded by the Research Council of Finland. Her previous research was supported by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for the FREEDLES project (2018–2024), multiple projects from the Research Council of Finland since 2007, and private foundations. She chaired the Finnish Society for Forest Sciences from 2019 to 2020 and was vice-chair from 2017 to 2018. Principal investigator of key projects including PEATSPEC (2021–2025), ARTISDIG (2022–2024), DIMEBO (2019–2022), and BOREALITY (2015–2019), her work advances Earth observation, albedo estimation, global satellite products, and contributions to UN Sustainable Development Goals 6, 13, and 15. Notable publications include "Predicting surface soil moisture of northern peatlands from hyper- and multispectral satellite data" (Karlqvist et al., 2026, Remote Sensing of Environment), "Forest structure from airborne laser scanning explains nationwide occurrence patterns of pine marten, stoat and least weasel across Finland" (Lämsä et al., 2026, Forest Ecology and Management), "A spectral–structural characterization of European temperate, hemiboreal, and boreal forests" (Rautiainen et al., 2024, Earth System Science Data), and "Physically based modelling of spectral transmittance through forest canopies" (Hovi et al., 2024, Methods in Ecology and Evolution).