| Pol
Coppin is dean of the Faculty
of Bioscience Engineering and chair professor of Geomatics
Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium. His research team is
one of the three core units of the Division "Measure, Model
and Manage Bioresponses (M3-BIORES)", which pertains to the
Biosystems Department of the same Faculty. His curriculum
spans 11 years of professional
activities in tropical and
sub-tropical natural resources assessment and monitoring
(1978-1988), followed by an academic career in the U.S.A.
at the University of Minnesota and Purdue University
(1988-1996), and
presently in Belgium (at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
since 1996).
Pol
Coppin
Gerard
Govers is research leader
of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.W.O.) and full professor
of Physical Geography and Geographic Information Systems
at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). His research
work focuses on the experimental and field study of soil
erosion processes and the distributed modeling of soil erosion
using GIS and remote sensing at various temporal and spatial
scales. He is actively involved in several national and
international research projects and co-ordinator of two
major EU research projects on soil erosion and degradation,
including PESERA, a project aimed at Pan-European Erosion
Risk Assessment. He has been awarded scientific prizes by
the National Academy of Belgium, the British Geomorphological
Research Group and the Soil and Water Conservation Society
of America. He is at present editor of the international
journals Agronomie, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
and Catena and secretary of the European Society for Soil
Conservation (ESSC).
Gerard
Govers
Hubert
Gulinck graduated as Master in Agricultural Sciences,
specialisation Soil Science at the University of Leuven
in 1974. In 1980 he obtained a Ph.D. degree of the same
university on the subject of Agro-ecological interpretation
of Landsat images over Belgium. Hubert Gulinck is currently
Associate Professor in the subjects Landscape Analysis,
Rural Planning, Introduction to Land Use. He coordinates
the education curriculum of Soil Science and Land Use, and
is actively involved in the curriculum development concerning
landscape planning and design. His main research topics
are analysis of landscape fragmentation and connectivity,
multifunctional evaluation of landscapes, monitoring of
landscape based on earth observation, and in general the
implementation of earth observation in environmental planning
topics. Hubert Gulinck chairs two flemish associations on
Land and landscape engineering and on Rural policy.
Hubert
Gulinck
Jaak
Monbaliu was born in Brugge in 1959. In 1982 he
obtained a degree in civil engineering from the Katholieke
Unversiteit Leuven. He worked for 3 years as a research
and teaching assistant at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel
Laboratory of the University of Western Ontario (London,
Ontario). In 1985 he returned to Leuven where he obtained
a Ph.D. in 1992. After his Ph.D. he combined work in the
university and in a private consulting company. Since 1998
he returned full-time to the university as an assistant
professor. His research is focused on numerical modelling
of waves, currents and sediment transport in shelf seas
and coastal areas. He has special interest in the exploration
of remote sensing techniques as a tool for measurements
of waves, currents and sediments. Subjects taught include
mathematics and coastal engineering.
Jaak
Monbaliu
Jean
Poesen is a research director of the Fund for Scientific
Research – Flanders (Belgium) (F.W.O.) and full professor
Physical Geography at the K.U.Leuven. He is the co-director
of the Laboratory for Experimental Geomorphology (together
with G. Govers). Large research experience in the study
of water erosion processes (especially interrill erosion
and gully erosion), surface hydrology in loamy, sandy and
stony soils acquired both in the Laboratory (Belgium, France,
Italy, Canada and USA) as well as in the field (Belgium,
Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Israel) and desertification
processes in the Mediterranean and Ethiopia. He has participated
in several national and international research projects,
including EUROSEM, MEDALUS and MWISED all funded by the
EC, and in a NATO collaborative research project. He is
a founding member of the European Society for Soil Conservation
and vice-chair of COST 623 “Soil erosion under Global
Change”. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications.
Jean
Poesen
Luc
Van Gool has worked on different aspects of computer
vision. His experience includes projects on software development
for texture analysis, 2D and 3D object recognition, stereo
vision and active range acquisition, robot control, and
optic flow. His special interests include the modeling of
human vision, 3D modeling and vision for robotics and remote
sensing applications.At the ESAT lab of the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven he is the head of a multidisciplinary group of 35
vision researchers, about 8 of whom are post-docs. With
his VISICS team he is involved in several research, exchange,
and training projects at the regional, national and European
level.At the Image Science Group (BIWI) of ETHZ he is the
head of 20Researchers, specialized in the fields of medical
imaging, robot vision, remote sensing and image indexing.
The BIWI group is involved in several European and Swiss
projects.In 1998 he co-founded the spin-off company Eyetronics,
which isSpecialised in 3D modeling. In its first year of
existence the company won already several awards with its
3D technology, including a European IT prize 1998.Luc
Van gool
Jos
Van Orshoven
is an agricultural engineer and soil scientist. He obtained
a Ph.D. in quantitative physical land evaluation and
Geographic Information Systems from K.U.Leuven in 1993.
Since 1998 he lectures about principles and applications of
geomatics including earth observation, in various Master
programs at K.U.Leuven. His main research interest and
expertise are with spatial and process-modelling for
decision support in agro-ecological land and water
management.Jos
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Chris
Johannsen
is full professor of Agronomy and Director, Laboratory
for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS), Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. In directing LARS, he is
responsible for the research and academic programs of
remote sensing, geographic information systems and global
positioning systems involving faculty and graduate students
in data acquisition, information processing and resource
applications. Johannsen's research interest are in spatial,
spectral and temporal aspects of remote sensing relating
to GIS as applied to precision agriculture, land resource
development and land degradation.
Chris
Johannsen
James
Bethel
is an associate professor of Civil Engineering in the
Geomatics Engineering area of the School of Civil Engineering
at Purdue University. He received B.A. and M.S. degrees
from the University of Washington in 1974 and 1976, respectively
and a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1983. His
areas of interest are in photogrammetry/remote sensing,
data adjustment and digital image processing.
James
Bethel
Boudewijn
H.W. Van Gelder is an associate professor of
Civil Engineering in the Geomatics Engineering area of
the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University.
He received a Geodetic Engineer (ir.) from Delft University
of Technology, the Netherlands, in 1972 and a Ph.D. from
the Ohio State University in 1978. Since 1995 he serves
as the Indiana State Geodetic Advisor. Hs areas of interest
are in geodesy/satellite geodesy, surveying/data adjustment,
and deformation analysis.
Boudewijn H.W. Van Gelder
Jie
Jeffrey Shan is an assistant professor of Civil
Engineering in the Geomatics Engineering area at Purdue
University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Wuhan Technical
University of Surveying and Mapping with major in photogrammetry
and remote sensing (1989). He has been senior researcher
and faculty in China, Germany and Sweden. Currently he
teaches photogrammetry and remote sensing, GIS and digital
mapping. His research interests are remote sensing, GIS,
visualization and computer vision.
Jie Jeffrey Shan
Bernard
A. Engel is a full professor in Agricultural
and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. Bernie
received his B.A. and M.S. from the University of Illinois
and his Ph.D. from Purdue. His research interests are
Soil and Water Engineering with interests in Water Quality,
Drainage, Subirrigation, Surface Irrigation and Erosion
Control. These application areas are supported with basic
research in fields of GIS, expert systems and neural networks.
He is listed in Who's Who Among University Educators and
Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He was a NASA Summer
Faculty Fellow in 1992 and 1993.
Bernard
A. Engel
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