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Wietske Bijker is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, affiliated with the Department of Earth Observation Science (Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation) and the Digital Society Institute. Her research focuses on remote sensing applications for monitoring vegetated surfaces, including forestry, agriculture, and urban tree systems. She holds an MSc in Soil Science from Wageningen University (1990) and a PhD on radar-based rainforest monitoring (1997).
Her expertise spans multi-temporal remote sensing, image classification, and monitoring of gradual environmental changes. She has led projects such as SMARTseeds (vegetable farming in Indonesia) and contributed to initiatives like the STARS program for smallholder agriculture monitoring. She teaches modules on change detection, vague object monitoring, and geoinformatics at the University of Twente.
Her research emphasizes practical applications, such as using Sentinel-1 SAR data for forest moisture stress analysis and developing open-source tools for ecosystem restoration impact evaluation. She collaborates internationally on capacity-building projects, including audits of disaster-related aid and drought monitoring in Africa.
Her 118+ publications span topics like shoreline change analysis, crop-type mapping, and urban land use classification. She actively contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in conservation and sustainable agriculture.
