Maryem Hamidi

Maryem Hamidi is a young Moroccan researcher. She holds an MA degree in Environmental Geomatics from the Sultan Moulay Slimane University in Morocco. Through her years of studying, she became fascinated by image processing and remote sensing and by the way these techniques are applied to monitor environmental risks in order to protect the environment. For this reason, her MA thesis was on "Quality assessment of NDVI from MODIS data towards vegetation monitoring over a semi-arid region of Morocco".

In 2018, she started a PhD research on "The application of remote sensing and GIS to land cover and land use mapping and change detection in Morocco", at the faculty of sciences of Mohammed 5 University of Rabat.

Maryem Hamidi would like to take advantage of her three month LeidenASA visiting PhD fellowship to further develop her academic work and advance her scientific research. This visit will be an opportunity for her to meet PhD students and professors who are working on similar topics and also to develop her professional network and participate in several training courses.