Internship Remote sensing for impact monitoring
Optimizing use of satellite data for consultancy and impact monitoring in data-sparse areas At Acacia Water we often operate in areas where data-availability is sparse. As we aim to make sustainable impact with solutions that are practical and fact-based, we search for innovative ways to fill this data gap.
Remote sensing applications on topics affecting the water system are taking a flight. We would like to gain more insight into the opportunities these developments offer and to translate this insight into concrete applications within our projects. Remote sensing can possibly be used to improve our assessment of project areas to find the right water and soil solutions, but also to monitor the impact of our proposed interventions over time. In this internship project you will provide us with more insight in remote sensing opportunities and work on one or two concrete applications for some of our project areas.
This internship project consists of two parts:
- Literature review and project assessment - Working on an overview of remote sensing applications to water related themes and their fitness for application in Acacia Water projects. This requires both an assessment of the applications of remote sensing and an assessment of the type of projects we do and their data requirement, in order to bring these two together and signal the most promising opportunities of remote sensing for Acacia. Example applications of interest are monitoring of soil organic matter content, aboveground biomass, erosion risks, groundwater extraction, plant stress or salinity changes. Relevant questions are for example whether the spatial and temporal resolution is sufficient for our applications.
- Application of remote sensing to a concrete project area - Elaborate on one or two of the most promising applications of remote sensing resulting from part one to really apply and demonstrate its use in one of Acacia Water’s projects. This can for example be visualization of the impact of interventions we have implemented in past projects over time using remote sensing.
We consider this topic fit for a MSc thesis or internship for students who have followed at least some courses on the topics of remote sensing and GIS applications. This internship is offered by the R&D team of Acacia Water and is part of the R&D topic ‘Data4Impact’. Within this topic we focus on innovative, cost-effective solutions for long-term impact monitoring, e.g. by making smart use of satellite imagery and other open-source data. You will work in close collaboration with the R&D team and our remote sensing colleagues.
Are you interested in this internship? Send your resume and motivation letter to frouke.hoogland@acaciawater.com. For questions about the internship give a call to Frouke Hoogland, R&D lead. All applications will be considered in the second half of February. Duration and start of internship to be determined in mutual agreement.