Anna Derkacheva
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology
- Research Fellow: Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology / GeoData Centre
- Anna Derkacheva has been at HSE University since 2022.
Responsibilities
Participation in R&D projects on natural risk assesment, Earth remote sensing, cartography, geoinformatics.
Presentation of the results in publications and conferences.
Education and Degrees
Grenoble Alpes University
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2015-2016 - Master-2 degree "Risk areas mapping" (Nantes University, France) with an internship in the Oceanographic laboratory (Villefranche-sur-mer, France)
Awards and Accomplishments
- Best Teacher — 2025
Employment history
2018-2021: Ice Dynamics team (CryoDyn) – Institute of Geoscience and Environment, Grenoble Alpes University (France)
2016-2018: Risk Assessment team - Avalanche and Mudslide Laboratory, Geographical faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
Courses (2026/2027)
- Geospatial Risks: Identification, Adaptation, Prevention (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Geospatial Risks: Identification, Adaptation, Prevention (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Geospatial Risks: Identification, Adaptation, Prevention (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2025/2026)
- Geospatial Risks: Identification, Adaptation, Prevention (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Geospatial Risks: Identification, Adaptation, Prevention (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Geospatial Risks: Identification, Adaptation, Prevention (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Spatial Data Analysis (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Spatial Data Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Spatial Data Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2024/2025)
- Introduction to the Spatial Data Analysis (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Spatial Data Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Spatial Data Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology field of study Geography; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2025
AI for good (Женева). Presentation: LLM for Natural Hazard Geodatabase from Digital Media
- 2024
Annual Society for Risk Analysis-Europe 2024 (Athens). Presentation: Debris flows in Gizhgit valley (Caucasus): reassessment of hazard to a tailings site half a century later
- 2023
Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS) (Хайдарабад). Presentation: Neural networks and satellite images in a shrub tundra landscape study: phenomena with fuzzy geometric and categorical boundaries
- 2021
Regional Conference on Permafrost. Presentation: Diminishing cryoturbation and shrubs on the march in the Siberian Arctic: detecting sorted circles and vegetation change using convolutional neural networks
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021 (Вена). Presentation: Modeling of the Russell glacier's basal conditions at seasonal time scale using the satellite observations of surface ice speed
- 2020
EGU General Assembly 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (онлайн). Presentation: Processing and analysis of dense ice velocity time series to reconstruct seasonal fluctuations of 3 greenlandic glaciers : Russell Gletscher, Upernavik Isstrom, Petermann Gletscher
European Polar Science Week Virtual Event. Presentation: Seasonal Ice Flow Variability In Greenland Observed From Space: Creation And Exploitation Of Velocity Database With High Temporal And Spatial Resolution
- 2019
Living Planet Symposium (Milano). Presentation: Sub-seasonal ice dynamic of 3 different type of greenlandic glacier using Sentinel-1&-2 constellation and Landsat-8
The Fourth Seminar of the Autumn Series of Seminars of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology Took Place
At the seminar held on November 21, 2024, MLLE employees Anastasia Dolbnya, a research intern, and Anna Derkacheva, a researcher, talked about modeling the distribution of vegetation classification units (Brown-Blanke system) in the tundra zone of Western Siberia.
Anna Derkacheva, Researcher of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology, Took Part in the Conference of the European Society for Risk Analysis in Athens
In the beginning of June 2024, the annual conference of the European Society for Risk Analysis was held in Athens, organized by the Faculty of Geography of the Charokopio University of Athens (Greece).
The Fourth Workshop of the Lab's Spring Seminar Series Was Held, "Overstorying the Arctic: How Do Neural Networks and Satellite Imagery Allow Us to Study Global Ecosystem Transformation at a Detailed Level?"
At the workshop of May 15, MLLE ph.D. researcher Anna Derkacheva and her co-authors presented technical aspects of processing the application of convolutional neural networks to assess the dynamics of occlusion of images and thematic results of studying the intensity of occlusion in relation to microclimatic conditions of landscapes.
On January 27-29, 2023, the International Conference «Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing» (MIGARS) Was Held
The key organizer was the IEEE international engineering society. The purpose of the event is to create a communication platform for representatives of dynamically developing high-tech branches of science. Despite the event was held for the first time, it was attended by academia and business from two dozen countries.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11, starting from 2016, is observed as the Day of Women and Girls in Science. Employees of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology, Natalia Shartova and Anna Derkacheva, shared their research, discussed the challenges in their work, and answered the question of whether anyone can pursue a career in science.
The Scientific Seminar "Creation of a Spatial Database of Biophysical and Ecosystem Variables for the Territory of the Russian Federation"
The International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology in the period from October 27 to December 15 holds a series of seminars on the topic "Current approaches and methods in landscape and environmental research". The seventh seminar of the series took place on December 8, 2022.