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
Recent News
MSc Defense by Nora Nieskens
MsC Defense by Nora Nieskens On Friday, September 08, 2023 at 11 a.m. Nora Nieskens will present her Msc Thesis “Estuaries in transition: Earth observation-based analysis of the turbidity dynamics in selected North Sea estuaries” in room 00.B.09 in John-Skilton-Str....
Detection of slope deformation at the Tröllaskagi peninsula, N-Iceland, using Sentinel-1 DInSAR time series
MSc defense (MA2) by Ása Dögg Adalsteinsdóttir On Monday, September 18, 2023 Ása Dögg Adalsteinsdóttir will present her Msc Thesis at 14:00 Detection of slope deformation at the Tröllaskagi peninsula, N-Iceland, using Sentinel-1 DInSAR time series Thema: MSC...
MSc defense by Vanessa Rittlinger
On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Vanessa Rittllinger will present her master thesis on “Detection of landslides in space and time using optical remote sensing data – A case study in South Tyrol” in the conference room 01.B.03 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a/1st...
New EAGLE Earth Observation professors
We are very happy to welcome two new professors within the EAGLE M.Sc. program! Prof. Dr. Hannes Taubenböck and Prof. Dr. Tobias Ullmann will strengthen the urban remote sensing and radar earth observation within the EAGLE program. Various new courses are already...
EAGLE summer dialogue 2022
After two years we finally had our EAGLE summer dialogue again with many Earth Observation alumni, now working in various research organizations and companies. Great to talk to all our past and present students and also seeing all the students getting to know each...
MSc defense by Antonio Castaneda
On Friday, 1st of July at 9am Antonio will present his M.Sc. thesis "Potential and limits of using UAS in forest monitoring". From the abstract: "The exponential development, usage, and application of uncrewed area systems (UAS) have given remote scientists a clear...
EAGLE application in 2022
We received again more than 200 applicants from all over the world. In total applicants from 42 different countries applied to our international Earth Observation M.Sc. program, covering countries such as Hungary, Morocco, Malaysia, Kenya, Nepal or Columbia. We are...
EAGLE application deadline 2022
Our application deadline for 2022 is approaching. If you want to study applied Earth Observation and learn about a variety of remote sensing sensors and methods as well as about fields of applications, submit your application at the latest on May 15th. Accepted...
MSc thesis defense by Nestor Gualsaqui
On March 8th at 10:30 Nestor will present his M.Sc. thesis "Pre-crop emergence weed mapping using high satellite imagery". From the abstract: "During the last decades, the growth of the world population has been increasing and weather fluctuations around the world...
MSc defense Nils Karges
Nils Karges will present his M.Sc. thesis "Exploring spatial relationships of soundscape variables in urban areas. " on 15th of February at 9:30. From the abstract: "This work describes the relationship between soundscape and the underlying landscape in an urban...