Wageningen University

Chairgroup Geo-infomation and Remote Sensing (GRS)

CITIZENSE proposal preparation meeting

IIASA, 18. Jan. 2012

Introduction

Wageningen University – life sciences

●Almost 7000 students BSc/MSc (50/50) and 1500 PhD

●20 BSc, 33 MSc studies, and 6 research schools

●MSc Geo-information science, 2 years

Chairgroup Geo-Information Remote Sensing

●Center for Geoinformation

●2 chair groups, 15 scientific and technical staff

●~30 Phd students

●20+ ongoing research projects (4 EU-FP7, ESA, national science funding, CIFOR ...)

Staff involved

Arnold Bregt: SDI; INSPIRE; assessment approaches and methods

Martin Herold: integrated land change monitoring

Arend Ligtenberg: social-spatial processes; CAS; human movement behaviour; mobile applications

Jan Verbesselt: time-series analysis and near-real time change detection and monitoring

WP involvement

WP 2: Citizen and community engagement●Citizens involvement in crowd-sourcing; requirements

analysis; methods for monitoring WP 3: Architectural Design

●Geo-spatial/environmental services; sensor webs; interoperability and standards; mobile concepts; ontologies

WP 9: Biodiversity●Remote sensing based hot-spot monitoring

WP 11: Land Change● Implement a system for monitoring land change in Europe

and globally including a mobile data streams and interactions with citizen observers

WP 12: Evaluation and Sustainability●Methodology; Data quality; feedback framework; project

compendium

WP 11 Pilot Case Study 6: Land Change Monitoring System

WU, IIASA, VUA, ALTERRA, FELIS, BRIDGEGIS, SENSARIS .. Design, build, implement and evaluate citizen-based

contributions to a land change monitoring system Citizen observers - provide more detail (time and thematic)

and independent data source for tracking type, location, local information and characteristics of land changes – present and past

GMES: develop near-real time remote sensing data stream signalling change to continuously stimulate citizen observations and interaction

Link to ongoing or “mandated” monitoring through LUCAS (EUROSTATS, ground inventory) and CORINE (EEA, remote sensing-based)

Remote Sensing Science 2.0THANK YOU

http://www.grs.wur.nl