Rogier de Jong

Short biography
Rogier has a background in physical geography and works as a research associate (postdoc) at the Remote Sensing Laboratories of the University of Zurich (Switzerland). He has mainly been working on environmental remote sensing with applications in the domain of terrestrial ecology, varying from field scale spectroscopy to global analysis of vegetation activity.

 
  period occupation
2012- Research associate, Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich (CH). Projects:
* Hyper-Swiss-Net
* Modeling of vegetation activity (open PhD position)
2008-2012 PhD Candidate, Laboratory of GIS and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University (NL), in cooperation with ISRIC - World Soil Information. Project title: Analysis of vegetation-activity trends in a global land degradation framework. Publications: see below.
2006-2011 (Lead) consultant Geo-ICT and Remote Sensing, Logica NL BV. Focus: business/management consultancy and innovation.
2001-2006 BSc and MSc Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Main field: Physical Geography / Environmental Remote Sensing. Theses: see below.

 

Publications and other scientific contributions (see also Academia.edu)
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journal de Jong, R., Schaepman, M.E., Furrer, R., & de Bruin, S. (in prep.). Spatial relationships between climatologies and changes in global vegetation activity. N.A.
journal de Jong, R., Verbesselt, J., Schaepman, M.E., & de Bruin, S. (2012). Trend changes in global greening and browning: contribution of short-term trends to longer-term change. Global Change Biology, 18, 642-655. DOI
journal de Jong, R., & de Bruin, S. (2012). Linear trends in seasonal vegetation time series and the modifiable temporal unit problem. Biogeosciences, 9, 71-77. DOI
poster de Jong, R., Verbesselt, J., Schaepman, M.E., & de Bruin, S. (2011). Short-term variability within long-term trends in global vegetation activity. 9th Swiss Geoscience Meeting (SGM). Zurich, Switzerland. *
proceedings de Jong, R., Verbesselt, J., Schaepman, M.E., & de Bruin, S. (2011). Detection of Breakpoints in Global NDVI time series. 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE). Sydney, Australia. *
journal de Jong, R., de Bruin, S., de Wit, A., Schaepman, M.E., & Dent, D.L. (2011). Analysis of monotonic greening and browning trends from global NDVI time-series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 692-702. DOI
journal de Jong, R., de Bruin, S., Schaepman, M.E., & Dent, D.L. (2011). Quantitative mapping of global land degradation using Earth observations. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32, 6823-6853. DOI
other de Jong, R. (2011). Trendkaart voor landdegradatie. Kennis in Kaarten, atlas van Wagenings onderzoek naar onze groene leefomgeving (pp. 98-99). Wageningen, Nederland: Environmental Science Group, Wageningen University. *
report Bai, Z.G., de Jong, R., & van Lynden, G.W.J. (2010). An Update of GLADA - Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement. ISRIC report 2010/08. Wageningen, The Netherlands: ISRIC – World Soil information and UN Food and Agricultural Organization. website
report PDF
proceedings Bindraban, P.S., Mantel, S., Bai, Z.G., & de Jong, R. (2010). Analytical tools for assessing land degradation and its impact on soil quality (EGU2010-14800). Geophysical Research Abstracts, 12. abstract
other de Jong, R. (2010). The trend in soil degradation publications. IUSS Bulletin, 116, 21-25. IUSS
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(editor)		 Wilschut, L.I. (2010). Land use in the Upper Tana – technical report of a remote sensing based land use map. Green Water Credits Report 9 / ISRIC Report 2010/03. Wageningen, The Netherlands: ISRIC – World Soil Information. report PDF
proceedings de Jong, R., Bai, Z.G., Dent, D.L., Schaepman, M.E., de Bruin, S., & de Wit, A. (2009). Enhanced assessment of global land degradation. 33th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE). Stresa, Italy. *
proceedings de Jong, R., de Bruin, S., & Schaepman, M.E. (2008). Towards quantitative mapping of indicators of land degradation in drylands. In, 7th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE). Accra, Ghana.  
thesis Hiemstra, P., & de Jong, R. (2006). Estimating leaf water content in Mediterranean oak forests for forest fire models: a comparison between empirical and radiative transfer model inversion using hyperspectral Imagery. MSc thesis, Utrecht University, 64p. *
thesis de Jong, R. (2006). Monitoring disturbances and regeneration of Eucalyptus forest in South-Western Australia using time-series of Landsat imagery. CSIRO & DLI Gov. WA, Perth, Western Australia. MSc thesis, Utrecht University, 50p. *
* Please contact me for a download link.

 

Reviewer for the following journals
  • Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE), Elsevier
  • Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGARS), IEEE
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), Elsevier
  • International Journal of Digital Earth (TJDE), Taylor & Francis
  • PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science

 

Other scientific contributions
  • Developer BFAST project (R-Forge)
  • Organizing committee 3rd RSS symposium (RSS 2011)