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 55 scientists of this department are involved in earth observation data analyses, monitoring dynamic processes of urban environments, forest- and agro-ecosystems, coasts and the cryosphere; amongst others. The department currently contributes to over 30 third party funded remote sensing projects in different locations globally. Claudia has successfully supervised 20 PhD students and is currently first supervisor of 8 PhD students.

Claudia’s personal interest over the past years is on densely populated as well as natural coastal environments and river deltas. Claudia has coordinated and has been involved in numerous Earth Observation- as well as transdisciplinary geoscience projects; amongst others funded by BMBF, BMUB, BMEL, AA, DFG, HGF, IB, EU and ESA.   She 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 initiated and was head of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Thermal Remote Sensing, and a Scientific Steering Committee member of Future Earth Coasts, and member of the Scientific Board of over 20 international conferences. She has authored and co-authored > 150 SCI journal papers, > 50 book chapters, and > 180 conference contributions, and has published three books with Springer. Claudia was 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, the linkage of natural and social sciences, as well as innovative developments in the field of deep learning (Ai).

Courses

• Lecture: Introduction to Remote Sensing and Geoanalyses
• Seminar: Land Surface Dynamics