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.
People
Celebrating 15 years of MSc Geo-Information Science Graduates
In 2018, it was 15 years ago that the first students graduated from the master programme Geo-Information Science (MGI) at Wageningen University. To celebrate this milestone an alumni event was organized on Friday December 14, 2018 in the Orion building in Wageningen. Over 180 MGI alumni, students and staff were present during the day.
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INREF grants funding for project “Beyond Anthropocene Pressures: convivialconservation integrating ECOlogy and ECOnomics along the Nile and its wetlands(Eco2)”. -
Droughts, livelihoods, and human migration in northern Ethiopia -
Memory effects of climate and vegetation affecting net ecosystem CO2 fluxes in global forests -
Flying Ethylene-Sensitive Sensors for Ripeness Detection in Apple Orchards -
Conceptualizing Serious Games as a Learning-Based Intervention in the Context of Natural Resources and Environmental Governance
Agenda
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
Key publications
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Cooperation can improve the resilience of common-pool resource systems against over-harvesting
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Roles and drivers of agribusiness shaping Climate-Smart Landscapes : A review
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Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures and the Role of Adaptive Governance
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Intercomparison of unmanned aerial vehicle and ground-based narrow band spectrometers applied to crop trait monitoring in organic potato production
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Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities
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Mapping reflectance anisotropy of a potato canopy using aerial images acquired with an unmanned aerial vehicle
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Using Sentinel-2 data for retrieving LAI and leaf and canopy chlorophyll content of a potato crop
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Using space-time features to improve detection of forest disturbances from Landsat time series
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What are the prospects for citizen science in agriculture? Evidence from three continents on motivation and mobile telephone use of resource-poor farmers