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Name:

Sander Zwart

Nationality:

Dutch

Position held:

Remote sensing and GIS specialist

Year of Employment:

2010

Qualifications:

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- May 2010: PhD Modeling and mapping water productivity, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands

- January 2002: MSc Geoinformation Science (remote sensing), Wageningen University, the Netherlands

- January 2002: MSc Tropical Land Use (irrigation engineering), Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Experience:

2010 – present: Africa Rice Center (Remote sensing and GIS specialist)

2007: International Water Management Institute (visiting scientist)

2003 – 2010: PhD, Technical University of Delft (part-time)

2002 – 2010: WaterWatch (Irrigation and Remote Sensing specialist)

Major Achievements:

Zwart, SJ, WGM Bastiaanssen, C de Fraiture, DJ Molden, 2010. A global benchmark map of water productivity for rainfed and irrigated wheat. Agricultural Water Management (in press).

Zwart, SJ, WGM Bastiaanssen, C de Fraiture, DJ Molden, 2010. WATPRO: a remote sensing based model for mapping water productivity for wheat. Agricultural Water Management (in press).

Zwart, SJ, LMC Leclert, 2010. A remote sensing based irrigation performance assessment: a case study of the Office du Niger in Mali. Irrigation Science 28, pp. 371-385.

Immerzeel, WW, A Gaur, SJ Zwart, 2008. Integrating remote sensing and a process-based hydrological model to evaluate water use and productivity in a south Indian catchment. Agricultural Water Management 95(1), pp. 11-24.

Zwart, SJ, WGM Bastiaanssen, 2007. SEBAL for detecting spatial variation of water productivity and scope for improvement in eight irrigated wheat systems. Agricultural Water Management 89(3), pp. 287-296.

Zwart, SJ, WGM Bastiaanssen, 2004. Review of measured crop water productivity values for irrigated wheat, rice, cotton and maize. Agricultural Water Management 69(2), pp. 115-133. (listed #3 in “Top 5 most cited articles” of Agricultural Water Management)