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Geospatial analyst: satellite monitoring, change detection and machine learning
I’m a geospatial analyst. Since 2019 I have been turning Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope imagery into maps and monitoring products for people who are not remote sensing experts: smallholder farmers, sugar mills, government agencies and the World Bank.
I work at Resilience BV (Saterra Labs) and I’m co-founder and technical lead of SmartCane BV, a satellite monitoring service for sugarcane. From 2024 to 2026 I was also a remote sensing consultant for the World Bank’s Water Informatics Team. I have a PhD in remote sensing of irrigated agriculture from Wageningen University.
Outside work I play box lacrosse for Team Netherlands, walk my dog, build furniture and play drums.
- Satellite monitoring
- Map making
- Box lacrosse
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PhD Remote sensing of irrigated agriculture
Wageningen University
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MSc International Land and Water Management
Wageningen University
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MSc Geo-Information Science
Wageningen University
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BSc International Land and Water Management
Wageningen University
SmartCane | Satellite monitoring for sugarcane
Thousands of sugarcane fields in several African countries, from 0.2-hectare smallholder plots to large estates. Growth problems, ponding and harvest timing, sent out every week by WhatsApp, SMS, PDF or API. Read more →
Mapping smallholder irrigation in Mozambique | PhD and FASIMO
Smallholder irrigation hardly shows up in official statistics. My PhD and the FASIMO programme were about mapping it from space, and about how much the method changes the map. Read more →
Tools for colleagues | Viewers, web apps, Opportunity Radar
Small web tools so colleagues who don’t use QGIS or code can still look at fields, check data and triage tenders. Read more →