PhD in Radar Remote Sensing for Detecting Logging in Tropical Forests Wageningen University & Research in Netherlands

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a fully funded PhD position on forensic tracing of tropical timber in the Netherlands. The project addresses the illegal timber trade and develops scientific tools to verify timber origin using wood chemistry , mass spectrometry , geostatistical modelling , and forest-related data analysis . The work is embedded in the Forest Ecology and Forest Management group and the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing , within the Timtrace t...

PhD opportunity in Multimodal AI for Forest Biodiversity Mapping at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norway. The project is part of the National Forest Inventory and focuses on developing cutting-edge multimodal artificial intelligence methods for forest biodiversity mapping and monitoring . The research will combine heterogeneous data sources such as remote sensing , forest inventory data, existing forest maps, environmental and climatic variables, and large-scale AI repr...

PhD / Doctoral Researcher opportunity in Forest Biodiversity and Remote Sensing at the University of Turku , Finland, in the Department of Geography and Geology within the Faculty of Science. The project sits in two research settings: BiodiLogDef (Towards more Biodiverse and Efficient Logging and Defence Operations) and the Digital Waters (DIWA) Flagship . The research focuses on developing indicators of forest biodiversity using novel remote sensing methods, especially lidar datasets, and study...

Emily Lines, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, is inviting applications for PhD supervision. The research sits at the intersection of forest ecology , remote sensing , and data science , with project ideas including low-cost terrestrial lidar for forest monitoring , sensing diversity in three dimensions , and three-dimensional foundation models of forests . Applicants are also welcome to develop their own project ideas. This is a PhD opportunity r...

University of Twente is advertising a PhD position on Water Footprint Assessment and Water Credit Design in Egypt’s horticulture sector . The project sits within the Water Footprint in Action programme and focuses on water-smart agriculture, environmental performance, and decision-support for policy and investment. The research combines agricultural sciences and environmental sciences with quantitative methods such as water-footprint analysis, crop modelling, scenario design, and benchmarking of...