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"






 



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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