Projects

For fundamental research the focus is on PhD projects. Current projects are as follows:

• A monitoring system for conservation of the Cerrado’s biodiversity in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, by Fausto Weimar Acerbi-Junior
• Application of remote sensing for plant community monitoring in the Logmenhe national forest nature reserve of the Three Gorges Region, by Yuan Zeng
• Application of remote sensing for quantitative assessment of eco-environmental variabilities in Heihe riverbasin, by Xiaomei Jin
• Deriving sub-pixel information for MERIS through an integrated spatial, spectral and temporal analysis, by Raul Zurita-Milla
• Quantifying change processes in tropical rain forest areas using satellite remote sensing data, by Marion Obbink
• Assessment of seasonal variability in a boreal forest ecosystem using spectro-directional satellite data and radiative transfer modelling, by Jochem Verrelst

For applied research, the programmes of LNV-DWK, ESA and the European Union are of primary importance. In addition, Wageningen UR’s SEO programme is relevant for strategic expertise development. Some research projects are highlighted below: 

• The airborne prism experiment (APEX)
• BioHab - exploitation of remote sensing for habitat monitoring
• BioPress - linking change in land cover to pressures on biodiversity
• GLC2000 - Global Land Cover 2000
• CLC2006
• ECOCHANGE
• GMES EAGLE
• GMES Geoland
• Historical land use in the Netherlands
• HYPER-I-NET - Marie Curie RTN Hyperspectral Imaging Network
• HYRESSA - Hyperspectral REmote Sensing in Europe
• LGN5
• Multiscale land cover classification and monitoring by integrating remote sensing and geostatistics, the role of MERIS (ESA-AO)
• Mutatis Mutandis
• PELCOM - Pan-European Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring
• European Landscape Classification (LANMAP2)