Dr. Jan Walstra
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Research
Jan studied Physical Geography at Utrecht University (NL), specialising in Soil and Water Management and Geographical Information Systems. In 2006, he obtained a PhD degree at Loughborough University (UK) for his research on the use of historical aerial photographs and modern photogrammetric techniques for modelling and quantifying landslide movements. His thesis Historical Aerial Photographs and Digital Photogrammetry for Landslide Assessment was awarded during the annual conference of the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetric Society.
Since 2007, Jan is involved in the IAP project Greater Mesopotamia: Reconstruction of Its Environment and History, a collaborative research between several Belgian institutes. Objective of this project is to reconstruct the changing environment of the Mesopotamian alluvial plain, and the interaction with the different civilisations through time. As a geographical information specialist, Jan's main task is to collect and analyse relevant data in a geographical information system. Primary data sources are historical texts, cartographic material, aerial photographs and satellite images.
Awards
2007 Young Author Award (Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology)
2006 Student Award for best PhD thesis (Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society)
Activities & memberships
Book Review Editor of The Photogrammetric Record
Member of ISPRS Working Group V/6: Natural Morphology at Close Range
Fellow of The Geological Society
Member of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
Selected publications
Walstra, J., Heyvaert, V. M. A. & Verkinderen, P. 2011 (in press). Mapping the alluvial landscapes of Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran). In: Smith, M. J., Paron, P. & Griffith, J. S. (eds.) Geomorphological mapping: methods and applications. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (ISBN 978-0-444-53446-0).
Walstra, J., Heyvaert, V. M. A. & Verkinderen, P. 2010. Assessing human impact on alluvial fan development: a multidisciplinary case-study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran). Geodinamica Acta, 23 (5-6), pp. 267-285.
Walstra, J., Verkinderen, P. & Heyvaert, V. M. A. 2010. Reconstructing landscape evolution in the Lower Khuzestan plain (SW Iran): integrating imagery, historical and sedimentary archives. In: Cowley, D. C., Standring, R. A. & Abicht, J. (eds.) Landscapes through the lens: aerial photographs and historic environment. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK: pp. 111-128 (ISBN 978-1-84217-981-9).
Walstra, J., Chandler, J. H., Dixon, N. & Wackrow, R. 2010. Evaluation of the controls affecting the quality of spatial data derived from historical aerial photographs. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.2111.
Walstra, J., Dixon, N. & Chandler, J.H. 2007. Historical aerial photographs for landslide assessment: Two case histories. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology 40(4), pp. 315-332, DOI: 10.1144/1470-9236/07-011.
Chandler, J.H., Lane, S. & Walstra, J. 2007. Quantifying landform change. In: Mitchel, H., Fryer, J. and Chandler, J.H. (eds.) Applications of 3D Measurement from Images. Whittles Publishing, Caithness, Scotland, pp. 139-170 (ISBN 978-1870325-69-1).
Walstra, J., Chandler, J.H., Dixon, N. & Dijkstra, T.A. 2007. Aerial photography and digital photogrammetry for landslide monitoring. In: R.M. Teeuw (ed.) Mapping Hazardous Terrain using Remote Sensing. Geological Society Special Publications 283. Geological Society, London, UK: pp. 53-63, DOI: 10.1144/SP283.5 (ISBN 978-1-86239-229-8).
Walstra, J. 2006. Historical aerial photographs and digital photogrammetry for landslide assessment. Loughborough: PhD thesis, 228 pp. (online at http://hdl.handle.net/2134/2501)
Please refer to the UGent-lib for a complete bibliography.