Gerard Hazeu

Gerard Hazeu (MSc) is GIS and Earth Observation/Remote Sensing researcher at Wageningen Environmental Research. He has more 10+ years of experience in the field of land monitoring, land use change detection and harmonisation of land cover/land use data.

He has been responsible for the Dutch national land cover/ land use database (LGN) in the last 15 years. One aspect of his land monitoring work was the preparation of datasets and land use change matrix for the Dutch LULUCF. He is/was working in several European projects and several CORINE Land Cover projects (2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018). Experience in capacity building in the application of GIS and Earth Observation/Remote Sensing in the agricultural domain (e.g. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Cameroon, Bhutan, Taiwan).

At the moment he is responsible for the first service contract under the Framework Service Contract for Copernicus land monitoring services – NRCs LC (National Reference Centres for Land Cover) Copernicus supporting activities for the period 2017-2021 (production CLC2018, verification local component data 2012 and verification HRL 2015). As part of the EAGLE working group he is contributing through several Copernicus contracts to the drafting of the framework for future land cover monitoring in Europe (CLC plus or CLC 2nd generation).

Furthermore, he is representing the Netherlands as National Reference Centre Land Cover in EIONET which is a partnership network of the European Environment Agency (EEA), an active member of the EEA - EIONET Action Group on Land monitoring in Europe (EAGLE) and was as expert involved in the INSPIRE TWG Land Use.

Gerard has published more than 10 papers in international scientific journals with peer review, several book chapters and scientific reports. He was one of editors of the book “European Landscape Dynamics: CORINE Land Cover Data”.