Dick Brus
Senior Consultant at Spatial sampling
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
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Top SchoolDick Brus is a senior consultant and long-standing researcher in pedometrics and applied statistics, combining over three decades of experience in soil survey, geostatistics, and sampling theory. He has led national-scale soil and geomorphological mapping efforts, revised the Dutch Soil Classification System, and authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers and two influential books, including Spatial Sampling with R (CRC, 2022) with a freely available GitBook. At Wageningen University & Research he teaches and develops methods for monitoring, digital soil mapping, and uncertainty analysis, and consults on spatial sampling designs for environmental monitoring. His work uniquely bridges design-based and model-based sampling traditions, and he continues to translate advanced statistical theory into practical tools for updating and validating soil maps.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physical geography, MSc, Physical geography at Free University Amsterdam
Github Skills (7)
sampling10
r-package10
r9
survey9
spatial9
soil4
cookbook3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brendo1001/SpatialSamplingwithR
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:59 commits in 28 days
DickBrus/SpatialSamplingwithR
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Open source book: Spatial sampling with R
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
r-packagespatialrstatsmappingsurvey
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