SmartCane: satellite monitoring for sugarcane
A satellite monitoring service for thousands of sugarcane fields in several African countries, from 0.2-hectare smallholder plots to large estates. I co-founded it and lead the technical side.
Saterra Labs at Resilience BV
The geospatial and hydrology work within Resilience BV, where I have worked as a spatial data analyst since 2019. Mostly for development programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mapping smallholder irrigation in Mozambique
Smallholder irrigation hardly shows up in official statistics. Through my PhD, the FASIMO programme and later projects I have been mapping it from space, and testing how much the method changes the map.
Land-use change around Gorongosa
Mapping irrigated agriculture, coffee trees, deforestation and reforestation in the buffer zone of Gorongosa National Park, for a livelihoods programme.
Teaching & training in Mozambique
Training about 50 people in Mozambique, from GIS students to government staff, in remote sensing tools, field data collection and canal flow measurement. And supervising MSc students and interns.
Coffee, palm oil and EU deforestation rules in Colombia
A WUR and Resilience study on how Colombian coffee and palm oil can be traced to the plot, so they comply with the EU Deforestation Regulation. I did literature review and advice.
Uncharted territory: my PhD
Four years of mapping smallholder irrigation in Mozambique from space, and finding out how much the method changes the map.
Flood mapping after Cyclone Eloise
Sentinel-1 radar in Google Earth Engine to map which areas around Beira and the Zambezi flooded in 2021, and which flooded first.