The Garden Monitor - mapping and charateriizing gardens using remote sensing. KU Leuven
Explore the potential of remote sensin data (boht airborne & satellite-based) to map and charecterize garden and garden complexes at a local to regional scale.
Explore the potential of remote sensin data (boht airborne & satellite-based) to map and charecterize garden and garden complexes at a local to regional scale.
Urbanization presents one of the major challenges to humankind in the current century. Our cities are true drivers of global environmental change, but at the same time also represent the most susceptible areas to be suffering from the local impacts of these ongoing changes (e.g. through heat waves, flooding and air pollution). Sustainable urban management and development therefore focuses on safeguarding the local quality of life by reducing ...
Increasing global urbanisation and anthropogenic warming contribute to the development of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs). UHIs pose significant challenges to the well-being and health of city residents, amplifying heat stress and exacerbating energy demands.
This research aims to employ remote sensing data for multi-scale mapping of urban morphology and to investigate its interrelationship with UHI. By utilizing multi-source remote sensing ...
This concerns an application for a start up credit to establish a research team on “Marine optics and remote sensing for biogeochemistry and ecology” within the department of Biology in the Faculty of Sciences. In the first five years, the research tasks of the team will be strongly linked to the European Research Council Project, CarbOcean, which concerns the biological carbon pump. The ocean’s biological carbon pump plays a crucial role in ...
Urban trees are the most important green infrastructure in cities to mitigate climate change, improve the urban environment, and promote human health and well-being by providing numerous critical ecosystem services. However, they experience various pressures, such as the urban heat island (UHI) effect, soil sealing, and air pollution, potentially affecting the tree health condition and thereby the quantity and quality of the ecosystem ...
Extreme weather events such as droughts are expected to increase tree mortality rates, and large trees are particularly vulnerable. However, we cannot accurately measure large tree mortality rates with current methods. Field data does not sample enough large trees, while remote sensing methods currently only measure the total canopy area disturbed. In this project, I will apply novel machine learning methods to detect and segment large trees ...
Several ecosystems worldwide are subjected to droughts with certain frequency, and drought stress is a major driver of ecosystem functioning decreases, productivity losses, and disruptions in the carbon balance. Global climate change might aggravate issues related to drought stress, since more frequent and extreme droughts are expected in the future due to changes in the climate, and we still lack knowledge on many aspects of plants and ...