Inge Jonckheere, * 26/05/1977

Degree

M. Sc. Engineering in Land and Forest Management (specialization in landplanning)

 

Thesis

“Relevance of texture parameters in Remote Sensing applications of High Spatial Resolution”

Project

Consistent assessment of LAI and quantification of spatial distribution of foliage in forest canopies based on digital hemispherical photography

Work history

Oct 2000 – 15 Jan 2001:	Research project at the Università degli Studi di Milano, GIS-lab of Istituto d’ Ingegneria Agraria
15 Jan 2001 – today:	Research associate at the Laboratory for Forest Nature and Landscape

Specializations

Digital hemispherical photography, Image interpretation (Idrisi, PCI, ERDAS, ENVI, TnTmips, Adobe Photoshop 5.0), Programming (C/ C++/ Perl/ Mathematica)

Scientific experience

Greenways: a comparing study of the Belgian and the Italian situation nowadays (Line 160: A Greenway in Brussels, the "Naviglio Martesana", a greenway in  Milano) Promotor: Prof. A. Toccolini

Teaching practical courses in Earth observation and in Reference database management

Publications

Coppin, P., E. Lambin, and I. Jonckheere. (2002). Digital Change Detection

Methods in Natural Ecosystem Monitoring: A Review. In submission to Int. Journal of Remote Sensing.

Jonckheere, I., S. Fleck, K. Nackaerts, B. Muys, P. Coppin, M. Weiss, and F. Baret (2002). Methods for Leaf Area Index Estimation Part I: Theories, techniques, and instruments Agr. For. Met. (submitted)