Jacques POPULUS
French Nationality, born August 24th, 1953. Married, 4 children
Personal address: 7 rue Thiers, F. 29200 Brest, email: jpopulus@ifremer.fr
SHORT NOTE
By graduation a civil engineer, Jacques Populus joined Ifremer in 1984 and has ever since
been dealing with geo-information, and more specifically remote sensing for coastal
applications, with a view to making it available to coastal practitioners. Following applied
work in the field of aquaculture siting and sustainability, namely shrimp culture in tropical
areas and shellfish culture in France, his current field of application has become coastal
seabed habitats and related environmental parameters, looking at how to survey, map and
predict them.
GRADUATION
Civil engineer. Graduation in 1976 at Ecole Centrale de Paris (Hydrodynamics and
Oceanography).
PROFESSIONAL CURSUS
* 1984- 2001 : Research engineer in remote sensing at Ifremer, Centre de Brest (France)
specialized in high resolution remote sensing applied to coastal studies. From 1988-1990,
Head of the "Service des Applications de la Télédétection" at Ifremer (research contracts,
consultancy in Europe and developing countries).
* 1991-2005: Research engineer in remote sensing and geomatics.
* From 2005, Head of service Dyneco/AG “Applications Géomatiques”.
EXPERIENCE IN CONDUCTING PROJECTS
- In 2000-2003, coordinator of EU DG Development Gambas project, related to the
environment of shrimp aquaculture in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
- Currently in charge of the French contribution to the EU Interreg NW Mesh (Mapping
European Seabed Habitats) project.
LANGUAGES
Fluent English and Portuguese, written and spoken
Good level in Spanish and German, written and spoken
PUBLICATIONS
* POPULUS J. et al, 1991. The use of Spot data for wave analysis. Remote Sensing of
Environment. 36:55-65 (1991).
* POPULUS J., MOREAU F., COQUELET D., XAVIER J.-P., 1995. An assessment of
environmental sensitivity to marine pollutions : solutions with remote sensing and
geographical information systems. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1995, vol. 16, n°
1, 3-15.
* POPULUS J. et al., 1995. Remote sensing as a tool for diagnostic of water quality in
Indonesian seas. Ocean and Coastal Management, Vol.27, No.3, pp. 197-215.
* BAJJOUK T., GUILLAUMONT B., POPULUS J., 1996. Application of airborne imaging
spectrometry system data to intertidal seaweed classification and mapping. Hydrobiologia
326/327: 463-471.
* BAJJOUK T., POPULUS J., GUILLAUMONT B., 1997. Quantification of sub-pixel cover
fractions using principal component analysis and a linear programming method: application to
the coastal zone of Roscoff (France). Remote Sensing of Environment, vol 64 : 153-165.
* POPULUS J., LOUBERSAC L., 2000 (eds). CoastGIS’99 : Geomatics and coastal
environment. Editions de l’Ifremer, Brest, 320 p.
* POPULUS J., BARREAU G., FAZILLEAU J., KERDREUX M., L’YAVANC J., 2001.
Assessment of the Lidar topographic technique over a coastal area. CoastGIS’01, Second
International Symposium on GIS and Computer Mapping for Coastal Zone Management,
Halifax, June 18-20, 2001.
* CUQ F., DEVOGELE T., POPULUS J., 2002 (eds). SIG côtiers, Revue Internationale de
Géomatique, Editions Hermès, 268-389.
* POPULUS J., LOUBERSAC L., PROU J., KERDREUX M., LEMOINE O., 2003.
Geomatics for the management of oyster culture leases and production. In: Coastal and
Marine Geo-Information Systems, 261-274. Edited by D.R. Green and S. D. King, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
* POPULUS, J. et al., 2003. Surveying coastal zone topography with airborne remote sensing
for benthos mapping. eProceedings of Earsel’s SIG “Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone”,
Ghent, June 5-7, 2003.
* POPULUS J., NUTPRAMOON. R., MARTIN J.-L., RAUX P., TONG S., 2003. GIS in
support to data analysis for enhanced sustainability of shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta,
Vietnam. CoastGIS’03, Genova, Oct. 2003.
* POPULUS J., LOUBERSAC L., LE ROUX J.-F., DUMAS F., CUMMINS V. and
SUTTON, G., 2004. Decision making in the coastal zone using hydrodynamic modelling with
a GIS interface. In: D. Bartlett and J. Smyth (Editor), GIS for Coastal zone Management,
Chapter 14, Taylor and Francis.
* POPULUS J., DESHOUX V., 2004. Nouveaux outils au service du littoral : la topographie
par télémétrie laser aéroportée. Géoévènement, Paris, 30 mars-1er avril 2004.
* TONG P.H.S., AUDA Y., POPULUS J., AIZPURU M., HASHBI A., BLASCO F., 2004.
Assessment from space of mangroves evolution in the Mekong delta, in relation to extensive
shrimp farming. International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 25, n° 21, 4795-4812.
* DE OLIVEIRA E., POPULUS J., GUILLAUMONT B., 2006. Using Lidar survey and
satellite imagery for predictive modelling of coastal habitats - A case for seaweed in Brittany
(France). Accepted for publication in Earsel’s eProceedings.
* THU P. M., POPULUS J., (2006). Status and changes of mangrove forest in Mekong Delta:
Case study in Tra Vinh, Vietnam, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2006),
doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2006.08.007