Postdoctoral Fellow
I am broadly interested in applied ecological remote sensing, precision agriculture, and plant health. During my MSc studies, I modelled the potential of land degradation risk using environmental and remote sensing variables in conjunction with the World Overview Conservation Approaches and Technology (WOCAT) participatory approaches. My current research aims to detect and map defoliation levels in Gonipterus Scutellatus using Unmanned Aerial vehicles and satellite imagery.
Nzuza P, Schroder ML, Slippers B, Maes WH. (2026) Spectral responses to larval and artificial defoliation in Eucalyptus dunnii: Implications for UAV-based detection of Gonipterus damage. Drones 10.3390/drones10040250
Nzuza P, Schröder ML, Heim RJ, Daniels L, Slippers B, Hurley BP, Germishuizen I, Sivparsad B, Roux J, Maes WH. (2025) Assessing Gonipterus defoliation levels using multispectral unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data in Eucalyptus plantations. Ecological Informatics 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103301