Dr. Claudia Kuenzer

German Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Tasks in the WISDOM project

• Overall Scientific Project Coordinator

Working areas

• Head of Research Group 'Land Surface Dynamics' at DLR-EOC
• Scientific Project Coordination (e.g. WISDOM, DELIGHT, DRAGON-3 PI)
• Multispectral, therma,l and radar Remote Sensing
• Capacity Building in Remote Sensing, Geosciences, and Resource Management

Contact:

Mail: claudia.kuenzer(at)dlr.de 

Phone: +49 8153 28 3280

Scientific / Professional career

• 01/2008 – present Earth Observation Center, EOC of DLR: Head of Research Group 'Land Surface Dynamics' at DLR-EOC
• 04/2006 – 12/2007 Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, IPF, of Vienna University of Technology: Research Assistant: Project leader: Chinese-Austrian Research Initiative Laserscanning, (ÖAD funded), Scientific colaborator in the projects GEOLAND I (EU FP6 funded), Globscat (ESA-funded) and ASAP EONatHaz (FFG funded), Coordination of TU Wien part of INWAMA “Integrated Watershed Management – Capacity Building in Asia (EU Asia Link funded), Proposal of TU Wien for GEOLAND II (EU FP7 funded), lectures and seminars in remote sensing and image processing for Master students
• 04/2005 – 06/2005 Visiting Scientist: Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, IRSA, Beijing, China, bilateral research in the field of multispectral and thermal remote sensing
• 02/2005 – 04/2005 Visiting Scientist and guest lecturer: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, bilateral research and lecturing in remote sensing
• 06/2001 – 03/2006 German Aerospace Center, DLR: Project Scientist and work package leader (remote sensing and GIS) for the project: „Sino-German Coal Fire Research Initiative“, BMBF funded; Scientific colaborator in the ESA DRAGON Initiative, Focus: Forest Fires in China; Member of Network of Excellence, NoE GMOSS - Global Monitoring of Security and Stability, Work Packages "Change Detection“ and "Responding to Crisis"; Emergency mapping activities in the context of the International Charter on Space and Major Disaster and RESPOND; PhD work within the project: „Sino-German Coal Fire Research Initiative“.
• 09/1997 – 12/1998 Environmental Sciences at Western Washington University, WWU, Huxley College of Environmental Science, WA, USA, study grant
• 09/1994 – 05/2001 Studies of Physical Geography at the University of Trier, Majors: Remote Sensing, GIS and Soil Science