Konrad Wessels
Extraordinary Lecturer
Department of Geography, Geoinformatics & Meteorology
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Biography
Konrad Wessels is currently a Chief Scientist and Research Group Leader for the Remote Sensing Research Unit of the CSIR-Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa. He is an extraordinary senior lecturer with the University of Pretoria, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology. He was awarded a NASA Earth System Sciences fellowship and completed his PhD in Geography (now Geographical Sciences) at the University of Maryland.
Research Interest
Research interest include, land cover change, savanna ecology, fire, communal resource management, carbon cycle and biomass estimation.