About Maarten Pronk

Maarten Pronk is a researcher at Deltares and an external PhD candidate at the Delft University of Technology. He holds a cum laude MSc in Geomatics and a BSc in Architecture, both from the Delft University of Technology.

His research concerns elevation modelling, especially in lowlands prone to coastal flooding. He aims to combine his interests in remote sensing and software engineering for societal impact.

He promotes open and reproducible research and is the author of several open-source software packages for handling geospatial data, written in the Julia programming language. His work often involves handling trillions of elevation measurements, requiring a careful selection and design of both spatial storage formats and processing algorithms.

Currently, he works on applying data from ICESat-2, a LiDAR satellite, on global elevation models.

Research:
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=JC3WR5wAAAAJ
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8758-3939