Daniel Doktor
Senior Scientist & Group Leader of Land Cover & Dynamics
Department Remote Sensing, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
I am leading the working group Land Cover & Dynamics at the Department Remote Sensing of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. Within the context of analysing the impacts of climate and global change on vegetation my research focus is on the derivation vegetation dynamics / disturbances and land-use / land-cover (change). Consequently my research focusses on the following aspects:
- Analysis and modelling of vegetation dynamics / phenology at a regional to continental level
- Derivation of bio-physical vegetation parameters => Essential Climate Variables and Essential Biodiversity Variables, e.g. plant productivity
- Land-use classification / land-use change / land-use intensity (forest, agriculture), regional to national scale
- Methods: Radiative Transfer Modelling + Machine learning method for inverse parameterisation and the analysis of highly dimensional and auto-correlated data
- Processing of remotely sensed raw data
Interests
- Impacts of climate and global change on vegetation
- Satellite remote sensing, analysis of respective time series
- Derivation of vegetation dynamics, vegetation disturbances, land-use and land-use intensity
- Machine learning (for inverse parameterisation), radiative transfer modelling, high performance computing & big data
Education
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Senior Scientist & Group Leader, 2015
Land Cover & Dynamics, Department Remote Sensing, UFZ
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PostDoc, 2008
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
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PhD in Environmental Sciences, 2008
Imperial College / London, UK
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Research Associate, 2003
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - PIK
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Diplom (Master eq.) of Geography, 2002
WWU Münster, Germany