Water is all around us and is vital for all aspects of life. Studying the various compounds and life forms that inhabit natural waters lets us better understand the world around us.

Biodiversity enables ecosystems to thrive through the synergy of functional differences among organisms. While human well-being strongly depends on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services, human actions are also at the root of current unprecedented biodiversity declines.

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Co-promotor: Frans Snik

De onderzoeksgroep Digital Archaeology beheert twee computerlaboratoria voor verschillende doeleinden: een onderwijslab en een onderzoekslab.

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

Aim: To develop and enable application of a practical, flexible, user-friendly platform to provide the scientific community with a tool to generate land surface products and its associated uncertainties and exploit these for data-intensive science.

Naar aanleiding van de vondst van Mayasteden in de jungles van Guatemala door middel van nieuwe remote sensing technieken, werd expert Karsten Lambers geïnterviewd door De Telegraaf.

What are the behaviours of plant traits throughout various points in the growing season in a radiative transfer model framework and how well can this knowledge be integrated through data assimilation to provide priors for robust local and global vegetation products and analysis?

Marco Beijersbergen is benoemd tot een van de 62 fellows van de Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). Met deze fellows benadrukt de NAE het belang van technologische innovatie voor duurzame maatschappelijke verandering. De inauguratie is op 13 november.

Ernstigere droogtes die ook langer zullen aanhouden: het wordt vooral een probleem voor geïrrigeerde landbouwgrond. Gemengde bossen met een verscheidenheid aan plantensoorten zijn het minst kwetsbaar. Dit ontdekte milieuwetenschapper Qi Chen. Zij vergeleek de effecten van droogte op verschillende ecosystemen…