Dr Jayan Wijesingha
Research Interest
Application of satellite-borne and UAV-borne remote sensing data (RGB, multi-/hyperspectral, LiDAR) models for plant biophysical and biochemical parameter estimation
Analysis of Satellite remote sensing data for agricultural land-cover/land-use mapping
Evaluate spatial-temporal land-use/land-cover pattern and changes due to agricultural intensification, urbanisation, bioeconomic activities etc.
Vegetation cover mapping using high-resolution image semantic segmentation with deep learning
Work Experience
04/2020 - 10/2024 | Postdoc researcher at University of Kassel |
04/2017 - 03/2020 | Doctoral researcher at University of Kassel |
03/2016 - 02/2017 | GIS Consultant at European Environmental Agency (EEA), Copenhagen, Denmark |
02/2013 - 06/2014 | Researcher at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand |
Academic background
2007-2011 | Studies in "Surveying Sciences" with specialisation in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, B.Sc., Topic of the Bachelor-Thesis: "Automatic road feature extraction from high-resolution satellite images using LVQ neural networks." |
2014-2016 | Studies in "Geomatics" at Lund University, Sweden, M.Sc., Topic of the Master-Thesis: "Geometric quality assessment of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle-borne remote sensing products for precision agriculture." |
2017-2020 | Doktor der Agrarwissenschaften (Dr. agr.), Thesis: "Fine-scale grassland monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicle-borne remote sensing" |
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2012-2013 | Academic Demonstrator at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. |
2013-2014 | Research Associate at Geoinformatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. |
2016-2017 | Freelance GIS Consultant in Land Copernicus project at European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark. |
Lectures
09/2018 | Estimating grassland biomass - Potentials and limitations of point cloud analysis 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics, Jena |
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2017 | 60. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Pflanzenbauwissenschaften 26.- 28. September 2017 Conference or similar event |
