Heiko Balzter
Director at University of Leicester
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHeiko Balzter is a director and professor at the University of Leicester with over two decades of leadership in Earth observation, land surface and ecological modelling, and interdisciplinary research addressing climate and biodiversity crises. He leads the Institute for Environmental Futures, translating remote sensing (SAR, multispectral, LIDAR) and applied-statistics advances into practical tools for forest monitoring, LULUCF reporting, carbon-cycle assessment and deforestation alerts from space. His work bridges fundamental modelling and stakeholder-facing landscape decision support, supporting PhD students and visiting researchers to tackle Net Zero and land-use change challenges. Notably, he has built and directed research centres that integrate hydrology, climate modelling and remote sensing to reveal how spatial-temporal water and land-use shifts drive ecosystem service change.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. agr., Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Dr. agr., Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Github Skills (13)
earth10
observation10
spatial10
chain10
cartography9
python9
matplotlib9
geometry9
geography9
earth-observation9
cartopy9
maps9
visualization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clcr/pyeo
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
Python Earth Observation processing chain
Contributions:196 commits, 70 PRs, 320 pushes in 3 years 2 months
pythonobservationearth-observationprocessing-chainearth
eogit/pyeo
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Python Earth Observation processing chain
Contributions:69 commits, 56 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
pythonobservationearth-observationprocessing-chainearth
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