Biography

I am Professor in Geo-Information Sciences at INP-AgroToulouse (Engineering Faculty of Life Sciences) and I joined the DYNAFOR Lab. (UMR INRAE & Toulouse INP) in 2006. Previously I completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the CNRS/University of Strasbourg (UMR ICube & LIVE) after a Ph.D. thesis on spatial database integration at the French national mapping agency (IGN-LaSTIG) / University of Paris 6 (LIP6). I had graduated in 1999 from the University of Liège (ULiège, Belgium) with a Bachelor’s degree in Geomatics and Land Surveying. I also worked for one year as a research assistant at the Geomatics Unit, ULiège.

My current research topics include remote sensing for biodiversity monitoring, image analysis for mapping forest ecosystems and agro-ecological infrastructures, and the integration of multi-source spatial data. I am interested in classifying tree species using earth observation imagery, assessing ecological quality of forest ecosystems, modelling species-habitat relationships with remote sensing data and specifically question how the spatial representation of habitats (classified vs unclassified data) influences the models’ performance. I also conduct some works on modelling and simulating landscape dynamics. I am motivated by interdisciplinary and the complex system theory to address questions related to socio-ecological systems. A summary of my research work can be found in my HDR thesis.

• david.sheeren@ensat.fr
• +33.(0)5.34.32.39.81
• INP-AgroToulouse (ENSAT),
  Engineering and Numerical Sciences Department (SIN),
  DYNAFOR Lab., UMR 1201 INRAE / Toulouse INP / EI Purpan,
  Av. de l'Agrobiopôle, BP 32607 - 31326 Castanet-Tolosan,
  FRANCE