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About Benoit Mertens
Benoît Mertens is an expert in Remote Sensing/GIS projects in Central Africa. He joined Global Forest Watch in September 2004 as its Cameroon Project Coordinator, based in Yaoundé.
Benoit comes to WRI from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Centre de Coopération lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD-Forêt) in France. He has worked and lived in Indonesia where he studied land-cover change with emphasis on forest sectors in tropical area and has worked or conducted studies in forest cover changes using Remote Sensing and GIS in China, Indonesia, Brazil, Bolivia and throughout Central Africa.