Caspar A. Mücher

Caspar A. Mücher was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1967. He received the M.Sc. degree in tropical crop science from Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, with specializations in rural surveys and land ecology, soil science, and geo-information, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in geo-informatics from Wageningen University, with his thesis on geo-spatial modeling and monitoring of European landscapes and habitats using remote sensing and field surveys, in 2009. He is a Senior Researcher in remote sensing with Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands, within the team for Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics. He is working for more than 20 years with Alterra in the field of remote sensing and biodiversity monitoring. He was a Coordinator of the EU-FP4 project PELCOM, which aimed at land use monitoring with low-resolution satellite data for environmental applications, in 1997. He is now involved in many European activities with a strong accent on landscape, land cover, and habitat mapping and monitoring using remote sensing and field data. He has been involved in many European projects such as BIOPRESS, BIOHAB, EBONE, and ECOCHANGE.