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A. Stein (Alfred)

Professor Emeritus
ITC-SCI-TECH
Langezijds 1332
a.stein@utwente.nl
+31534893816
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Prof. dr. ir. Alfred Stein (1958) is professor in Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis. He received his MSc in mathematics and information science, with a specialization in applied statistics from Eindhoven University of Technology and his PhD at Wageningen University. He started his career at the soil science and geology department of Wageningen university, leading to a professorship at the chair of mathematical and statistical models in 2000. In 1995 he was appointed as a visiting professor at the - then - Institute of ITC where in 2002 he became professor at the new department of Earth Observation Science, which he has headed for more than 10 years. From 2008 until 2020 he has been a member of the faculty board alternating with the portfolios of research and education.

His research interests focus on statistical aspects of spatial and spatio-temporal data, e.g. monitoring data, in the widest sense. Optimal sampling, image analysis, spatial statistics, use of prior information, but also issues of data quality, fuzzy techniques, random sets, all in a Bayesian setting.

From 1998 onwards he has been working with more than 50 PhD students on a range of spatial (and temporal) statistical topics. At present, 12 PhD students are working under his supervision. Since 2011 he is the editor-in-chief of Spatial Statistics, the leading platform in the domain of spatial statistics. It publishes articles at the highest scientific level concerning important and timely developments in the theory and applications of spatial and spatio-temporal statistics. He is associate editor of the International Journal of Applied Geoinformation and Earth Observation and Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 

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Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Model
    • Investigation
    • Image
    • Datum
    • Remote Sensing
    • Cartography
    • Synthetic Aperture Radar
    • Satellite Image

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2026

Poisson cokriging for public health response (2026)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Payares-Garcia, D. E.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036570558Towards an early warning system for pandemics: The case of Covid-19 in Ghana (2026)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Akyereko, E.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036570398Whose city is it?: Mapping perceived urban livability with citizen-guided AI (2026)npj Urban Sustainability, 6(1). Article 16 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Campomanes V, F., Abascal, A., Trento Oliveira, L., Kuffer, M., Dijkstra, A. M., Stein, A. & Belgiu, M.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00320-x

2025

Satellite SAR-optical image fusion for cloud-free image generation (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Duan, C.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036569408Evaluation of spatial variation in chronic wasting disease risk with Bayesian Poisson log-Gaussian model (2025)Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 12. Raghavan, R. K., Osei, F. B., Stein, A., Hesting, S., Jaster, L., Hatuwal, B., Mosley, J. E. & Raghavan, A.https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2025.1568468Impact of pandemic measures on air quality and meteorological parameters during the COVID-19 spread in the Euphrates Basin, Türkiye (2025)Environmental monitoring and assessment, 197(10). Article 1147. Özvan, H., Stein, A., Aslantaş, P. & Osei, F.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-025-14620-3Food production and intra-household dietary diversity: Evidence from agroecologically diverse rural households in Ethiopia (2025)Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 50(4), 1-27. Bayu, H. G., Belgiu, M., Baye, K. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2025.2538146Creating and leveraging SAR benchmark datasets to facilitate machine learning application (2025)International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), 142. Article 104722. Zhang, X., Chang, L., Girgin, S. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104722Localized deformation detection and prediction in wide-range urban environments (2025)GIScience & remote sensing, 62(1). Article 2551994. Zhang, X., Chang, L., Ma, Y. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2025.2551994Identifying landscape patterns at different scales as driving factors for urban flooding (2025)Ecological indicators, 176. Article 113614. Li, Y., Osei, F. B., Dai, S., Hu, T. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113614

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