Laurent Tits
Team Leader Agriculture
Laurent Tits obtained his master in Bioscience Engineering in 2009 and his PhD in 2013 at the KU Leuven, Belgium, after which he remained at the Geomatics lab as a post-doctoral researcher. His research focused on the use of hyperspectral and thermal remote sensing in the monitoring of orchards. In 2016, he moved to VITO to join the Remote sensing department.
With the new advances in EO technology, it is amazing to see what is possible in agricultural monitoring.
Laurent is currently the team leader of the agricultural applications team. Besides managing the day-to-day activities of the team and the broad range of applications they are working on, his main focus is on the use of EO data in Africa, and in a development context. He is involved in opening agricultural data for global monitoring capabilities, and he initiated the HE ScaleAgData project on in-situ sensor data for European-wide agro-environmental monitoring.
