Research Groups

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Contact:

Dr. Daniel Doktor

Tel.: +49  341 6025 1943

Our research focuses on the detection and evaluation of climate (extreme) effects and land-use / land-cover change on terrestrial vegetation. This concerns the following components:

  • Analysing optical-reflective time-series of satellite data to derive forest condition, plant traits (phenology, pigments, leaf area) and ecosystem services (biodiversity, productivity). This is done by inverse parameterisation of radiative transfer models, classical empirical approaches as well as data science methods.   
  • Acquisition of remotely sensed hyperspectral (airborne and field) data accompanied by respective trait measurements and in-situ vegetation records
  • Derivation of land-use (crop types, tree species), land-use intensity (mowing events, grazing intensity, fertilisation) and habitats from optical-reflective time-series of satellite data using data science methods
  • Establish / evaluate links between land-use intensity / biodiversity and plant traits / vegetation condition
  • Design of processing chains (of remotely sensed raw data)

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Contact:

Prof. Dr. Jian Peng

Tel: +49 341 6025 482335

 Main research focus:

  • Quantification of hydrological variables (e.g., soil moisture, ET, rainfall)
  • Hydro-climatic extremes and land-atmosphere interactions
  • Multi-source remote sensing data fusion
  • Scaling in remote sensing and uncertainty quantification