The teacher-searchers

Environmental and Digital Sciences Department

Remote sensing, Geomatics, Digital tools, Agroclimatology and Agrometeorology, Data processing.

• Water and energy transfer from agricultural and natural vegetation cover.
• Agronomic modeling.
• Drought monitoring and sustainable water management by coupling land surface models with multi-resolution, multi-sensor remote sensing data.
• Hydrological functioning of complex vegetation cover.

2018: PhD in Universe, Environment and Space Sciences: Continental interfaces and surfaces, University of Toulouse Paul Sabatier, France / in co-supervision with the University of Carthage, Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie, Tunis, Tunisia.

2012: Master of Science in Agricultural Land and Water Management from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy.

2010: Training leading to an engineering degree in Hydraulics and Rural Development at the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia.

• 2023: Research Associate, Ottawa Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
• 2019–2022: Postdoctoral researcher, Ottawa Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• 2018–2019: Postdoctoral researcher, UMR EMMAH (Mediterranean Environment and Agro-Hydrosystems Modeling Joint Research Unit), INRAE (National Research Institute on Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment), Avignon, France.
• 2018: Postdoctoral researcher, IRD (Development Research Institute), Tunis, Tunisia.
• 2013–2015: Temporary lecturer in geomatics and remote sensing, National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia
• 2012–2013: Hydraulic engineer and hydrologist, SOLTECH engineering firm, Tunis, Tunisia.

• 2024: Dellaly, V., Chahbi Bellakanji, A., Chakroun, H., Saadi, S., Boulet, G., Zribi, M., & Lili Chabaane, Z. (2024). Water Footprint of Cereals by Remote Sensing in Kairouan Plain (Tunisia). Remote Sensing, 16(3), 491.
• 2022: Saadi, S., Pattey, E., Jégo, G., & Champagne, C. (2022). Prediction of rainfed corn evapotranspiration and soil moisture using the STICS crop model in eastern Canada. Field Crops Research, 287, 108664.
• 2020: Mesbah, M., Pattey, E., Jégo, G., Champagne, C., Liu, J., Saadi, S., & Mulicoin, K. (2020, January). A global optimization tool for assimilation of leaf area index into STICS crop model. In XIIth Stics users seminar (p. 37).
• 2018: Boulet, G., Delogu, E., Saadi, S., Chebbi, W., Olioso, A., Mougenot, B., … & Lagouarde, J. P. (2018). Evapotranspiration and evaporation/transpiration partitioning with dual source energy balance models in agricultural lands. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 380, 17–22.
• 2018: Saadi, S., Boulet, G., Bahir, M., Brut, A., Delogu, É., Fanise, P., … & Lili Chabaane, Z. (2018). Assessment of actual evapotranspiration over a semi-arid heterogeneous land surface by means of coupled low-resolution remote sensing data with an energy balance model: comparison to extra-large aperture scintillometer measurements. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(4), 2187–2209.
• 2017: Gorrab, A., Simonneaux, V., Zribi, M., Saadi, S., Baghdadi, N., Chabaane, Z. L., & Fanise, P. (2017). Bare soil hydrological balance model “MHYSAN”: Calibration and validation using SAR moisture products and continuous thetaprobe network measurements over bare agricultural soils (Tunisia). Journal of arid environments, 139, 11–25.
• 2015: Saadi, S., Simonneaux, V., Boulet, G., Raimbault, B., Mougenot, B., Fanise, P., … & Lili-Chabaane, Z. (2015). Monitoring irrigation consumption using high-resolution NDVI image time series: Calibration and validation in the Kairouan Plain (Tunisia). Remote Sensing, 7(10), 13005–13028.
• 2015: Saadi, S., Todorovic, M., Tanasijevic, L., Pereira, L. S., Pizzigalli, C., & Lionello, P. (2015). Climate change and Mediterranean agriculture: Impacts on winter wheat and tomato crop evapotranspiration, irrigation requirements and yield. Agricultural water management, 147, 103–115.

UMR 1201 DYNAFOR: Dynamics and Ecology of Agriforestry Landscapes