Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing
The mission of the Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing is to improve spatial competences for a sustainable world through research and education.
Education
In the field of education, the Laboratory is strongly participating in the Master Geo-Information Science.
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Research
Geo-information has become a societal commodity and geo-information science is the driver of its innovation. This trend is evident in the activities of the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS).
Our research aims to Realize the Digital Earth of Locations.
Research topics
- Sensing & measuring
- Modelling & visualization
- Integrated land monitoring
- Human - space interaction
- Empowering & engaging communities
Projects & Facilities
- Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
- Breaks For Additive Season and Trend (BFAST)
- Change detection and monitoring
- Community-based monitoring
- e-Tribes
- Forest Biomass
- GeoDesk
- GOFC-GOLD
- Historic Land Dynamics Assessment (HILDA)
- HILDA+
- Land Use Carbon & Emission Data (LUCID)
- Radar Remote Sensing
- RADD Forest Disturbance Alert
- REDD@WUR
- Terrestrial Laser Scanning Research
- Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing Facility (UARSF)
- Validation of CGLS - Dynamic Land Cover product for Africa
Latest publications
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Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation
Science 377 (2022)6611. - ISSN 0036-8075 - 13 p. -
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022). - ISSN 2397-334X -
Using high-resolution imagery and deep learning to classify land-use following deforestation: a case study in Ethiopia
GIScience & Remote Sensing 59 (2022)1. - ISSN 1548-1603 - p. 1446 - 1472. -
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions
Ecology and Society 27 (2022)3. - ISSN 1708-3087 -
Soil Salinity Prediction Using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems under Semi-Arid Environments Irrigated with Salty Non-Conventional Water Resources
Agronomy 12 (2022)9. - ISSN 2073-4395
Latest PhD dissertations
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Linking evaporation and vegetation characteristics: a data-driven study from plot to global scale
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): M. Herold; A.J. Teuling, co-promotor(en): K. Mallick; M. Machwitz. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789464471915 - p. -
The potential of UAV-based sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in understanding crop photosynthesis
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): L. Kooistra, co-promotor(en): J.G.P.W. Clevers. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789464472127 - p. -
Collaboration tools for land use policy development
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): A.K. Bregt, co-promotor(en): A. Cormont; S.J.C. Janssen. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463957632 - p.