About
Claudia received her PhD in remote sensing from Vienna University of Technology in 2005 and is head of the department ‘Land Surface Dynamics’ at the German Earth Observation Center, EOC of the German Aerospace Center, DLR. The currently over 50 scientists of this department are involved in earth observation data analyses, monitoring dynamic processes of urban environments, forest ecosystems, agro-ecosystems, and the cryosphere; amongst others. The department contributes to over 30 third party funded remote sensing projects in different locations globally.
Claudias personal interest over the past years is on densely populated as well as natural coastal environments and river deltas. Claudia has coordinated (2008-2014) the German-Vietnamese WISDOM Project (Water related Information System for the sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta), the BMBF – MOST-CN funded DELIGHT Project (Delta Information System for Geoenvironmental and Human Habitat Transition in the Yellow River Delta, China), and has contributed and contributes to numerous other projects such as DeltaAdapt (BMBF), Sustainable DELTAS (Belmont Forum, DFG), PARLU (WWF, BMU), RCEIS (HGF), DONGTING (IB), RICEMAN (IB), CAWA (AA), DRAGON-4 and Carbon (KARI).
Claudia frequently lectures and has lectured for the Universities of Wuerzburg, Germany, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, the Vietnamese Academy of Sciences, VAST, and the European Space Agency, ESA. Claudia furthermore had a Visiting Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, from 2012 to 2016 at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, RADI-CAS, in Beijing, China. Claudia is head of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Thermal Remote Sensing, and a Scientific Steering Committee member of Future Earth Coasts. She has authored and co-authored > 120 SCI journal papers, > 40 book chapters, and > 150 conference contributions, and has published three books with Springer. Claudia is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Remote Sensing, member of the Editorial Board of the journal Remote Sensing, and acts as a reviewer for 15 SCI journals from the field of remote sensing, environmental sciences, and geophysics. Next to applied remote sensing especially in the context of land use management and integrated water resources management, her current main research interest is on time series analyses, as well as on the linkage of natural and social sciences.
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kuenzer
Department of Remote Sensing, Univ. Wuerzburg
head of DLR-DFD LAX
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EAGLE MSc Defense “Modeling Urban Heat Exposure and Vulnerability Integrating Citizen Science and VHR Remote Sensing”
On October 22, 2025, Ariana Sofía Argüello Cordero will present her Master Thesis on " Modeling Urban Heat Exposure and Vulnerability Integrating Citizen Science and VHR Remote Sensing" at 10:15 at the EORC Meeting Room (1st floor), John-Skilton-Str. 4a From the...
EAGLE Internship Presentation “Gobabeb Namib Research Institute”
On October 21, 2025, Farimah Abdolzadeh will present her internship at " Gobabeb Namib Research Institute " at 12:30 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. Farimah has just completed her internship at the Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, located in the heart of...
EAGLE Innolab Presentation “Modeling Tree-Level Beech Leaf Loss in Bavaria Under Climate Stress with Multimodal Deep Learning Architectures”
On October 21, 2025, Henning Riecken will present his Innolab results on " Modeling Tree-Level Beech Leaf Loss in Bavaria Under Climate Stress with Multimodal Deep Learning Architectures " at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: European...
EAGLE MSc Defense “Coastal Urban Flood Detection and Analysis Using SAR and CNN-Based Methods: A Case Study for Central Vietnam”
On September 23, 2025, Elly Schmid will present her Master Thesis on " Urban Flood Detection and Analysis Using SAR and CNN-Based Methods: A Case Study for Central Vietnam" at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: With over half of the...
EAGLE MSc Defense “Utilizing deep learning and Earth Observation data to predict land cover changes in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda”
On September 16, 2025, Jean de Dieu Tuyizere will present his Master Thesis on "Utilizing deep learning and Earth Observation data to predict land cover changes in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda" at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a From the abstract:...
EAGLE Innolab Presentation “Earth observation data cube for the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda”
On July 15, 2025, Jean de Dieu Tuyizere will present his Innolab results on " Earth observation data cube for the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda" at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: The increasing availability of Earth...
EAGLE Innolab Presentation “Earth observation data cube for the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda”
On July 15, 2025, Jean de Dieu Tuyizere will present his Innolab on " Earth observation data cube for the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda" at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: The increasing availability of Earth observation (EO)...
WG: EAGLE Innolab Presentation “Automated Basement Identification in SVI: A Two-Stage Learning Framework”
On July 15, 2025, Gökce Budak will present her Innolab results on " Automated Basement Identification in SVI: A Two-Stage Learning Framework" at 13:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: The presence of a basement, a structural attribute not...
EAGLE Master Thesis Presentation “Ability of Random Forest Model to Predict the Mean and Standard Deviation of Winter Wheats Biomass in Bavaria: A case study”
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EAGLE Innolab Presentation “Ecology fieldwork in the high Arctic – A drone, tundra and reindeer”
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