HERRAULT Pierre-Alexis

Research activities

My current research include remote sensing for historical ecology and landscape ecology, image and point cloud processing for mapping ecological habitat. I am particularly interested in understanding how landscape changes affect biodiversity and how the exploration of old and current spatial data is relevant to solve this issue. I also conduct some works on uncertainty of spatial data and its propagation in environmental modeling. Collaborations with ecologists and paleoenvironmentalists are key in my research.

Functions and responsibilities

  • Associate professor in GIS Faculté de Geography – University of Strasbourg – UMR LIVE 7362 CNRS (since september 2017)
  • Head of Master’s degree (1st Year) "Earth observation and GIS" à UNISTRA (Faculty of Géography, Strasbourg) (since september 2017)
  • Co-leader of the “Multi-sensor observations for earth monitoring” WG (GdR CNRS MAGIS, co-dir Pauline Dusseux) (since september 2022)

Education

  • PhD in Geography funded by Region Occitanie. Host at UMR INRA 1201 DYNAFOR and ENSAT (Engineering Faculty of Life Sciences). PhD Thesis :  Effect of forest history on its current biodiversity: a multi-source approach (dir. M. Paegelow and D. Sheeren)
  • Juin 2015
  • Master degree Remote Sensing and Environmental seciences (TASE) Faculty of Geography – University Rennes II, Master Thesis : On the use of Dempster-Shafer Theories to detect «grasslands-croplands» transitions from optical satellite images (dir. L. Hubert-Moy and S. Corgne)
  • Bachelor degree en Geographie – Faculty of Geography – University Rennes II