dr. NE (Nandika) Tsendbazar

Dr. Nandika Tsendbazar, Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University, specializes in satellite-based land change monitoring.

Her research area spans land change monitoring and assessment, with a particular focus on monitoring land dynamics such as changes in vegetation, land cover, wetlands, and land degradation. She has extensive experience in quality and uncertainty assessments of satellite remote sensing based products focusing on statistical map validation, local map uncertainty, fitness for use, and map comparability. Dr Tsendbazar has developed an operational and multi-purpose validation framework for global land cover maps such as Copernicus Global Land Service Dynamic Land Cover (JRC) and ESA WorldCover, enabling quality assessments of land cover and change maps.  

Publications

• Xu L, Herold M, Tsendbazar N, Masiliunas D, Li L, Lesiv M, Fritz S, Verbesselt J (2022), Time series analysis for global land cover change monitoring: A comparison across sensors, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 271, 112905
• Tsendbazar, N., Herold, M., Li, L., Tarko, A., de Bruin, S., Masiliunas, D., Lesiv, M., Fritz, S., Buchhorn, M., Smets, B., Van De Kerchove, R., & Duerauer, M. (2021). Towards operational validation of annual global land cover maps. Remote Sensing of Environment, 266, 112686
• Tian, Y., Tsendbazar, N.E., van Leeuwen, E., Fensholt, R., & Herold, M. (2022). A global analysis of multifaceted urbanization patterns using Earth Observation data from 1975 to 2015. Landscape and Urban Planning, 219, 104316
• Xu, P., Herold, M., Tsendbazar, N., & Clevers, J. (2020). Towards a comprehensive and consistent global aquatic land cover characterization framework addressing multiple user needs. Remote Sensing of Environment, 250, 112034
• Slagter, B., Tsendbazar, N.E., Vollrath, A., & Reiche, J. (2020). Mapping wetland characteristics using temporally dense Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data: A case study in the St. Lucia wetlands, South Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 86, 102009
• Tsendbazar, N.E., Herold, M., de Bruin, S., Lesiv, M., Fritz, S., Van De Kerchove, R., Buchhorn, M., Duerauer, M., Szantoi, Z., & Pekel, J.F. (2018). Developing and applying a multi-purpose land cover validation dataset for Africa. Remote Sensing of Environment, 219, 298-309

See the current list of publications on Google Scholar or Research Gate.