Rik van Heumen

At the time, Rik was a Dutch MSc student at Wageningen University with a BSc in Soil, Water, Atmosphere and an MA in Landscape History. Rik worked on a space-time convolutional neural network for the digital soil mapping of soil organic carbon content and subsequently tested this methodology for Argentina. By bringing the spatial context of a point into the modelling stage, this machine learning technique can help to more accurately model and thus understand trends in SOC. The research was supervised by Gerard Heuvelink and Laura Poggio.