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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔥 Massive wildfires in boreal forests have made global headlines, and are expected to further increase. What does this mean for the future of the forests? In a new study, we looked at post-fire forest composition across Eastern Siberia, an underresearched wildfire hotspot. doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A new study led by our @katjakowalski.bsky.social establishes the links between the near-surface temperatures in mountain ecosystems of the Alps 🏔️ and Landsat-derived canopy temperatures 🛰️: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Last week, together with the University of Bayreuth easilabubt.bsky.social, we have started the fieldwork for the new T-EDGE project. We aim to deepen our understanding of the effect of disturbances on microclimate and regeneration in the forest interior.

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥 Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Prof. Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social has been appointed to the Landsat Science Team! ✨🛰️🌲 The members of the team are among the world's leading Earth Observation researchers and contribute directly to the strategic development of the Landsat program. More: shorturl.at/NMLAy

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

New paper in collaboration with Thomas Knoke's group and led by Reyhaneh Farahani: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We incorporate extreme disturbance events into and economic assessment and show that extreme disturbances can lead to significant economic losses.

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The impact of extreme disturbance events on the economic attractiveness of stand types: A Monte Carlo simulation-based study

Climate change and the increasing frequency of extreme disturbance events pose major challenges for sustainable forest management. Quantifying the eco…

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Lisa Mandl @lisa-mandl.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

New paper out! We mapped forest recovery and its drivers in the Alps using multi-decadal fractional cover maps 🛰 and ecologically-informed recovery indicators 🌲.

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We’re thrilled to be part of SafeNet, a Europe-wide effort to tackle biodiversity loss and boost forest resilience 🌳🌲 Watch the project video to learn more! SafeNet project website: safenet-project.eu

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Our postdoc @albavianasoto.bsky.social took part in a new ForestChats podcast talking about forest disturbance in Europe - where, when and why it happens. Tune in if you want to learn more about our work! 🔊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD1n...

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ForestChats Episode 2: The European Forest Disturbance Atlas

YouTube video by ForestPaths Project

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

New paper by Wout Cherlet of @qforestlab.bsky.social with very valuable insights into tree instance segmentation including one of our intensive measurement sites in #Berchtesgaden National Park 🌳✂️🌲 Co-authored by @hanzlan.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

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ForestPaths Project @forestpaths.eu · 10/11/2025

🌲 The European Forest Disturbance Atlas by ForestPaths is now on Forest Information Systems for Europe! Using Landsat data (1985–2023), the maps track fires, storms, bark beetles & harvesting across 38 countries — open-source & updated annually. 🔗 Explore more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp...

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ForestPaths disturbance maps now available on FISE

With ForestPaths releasing the European Forest Disturbance Atlas - a dataset of annual forest disturbance maps across 38 European countries - it is also now featured on the Forest Information System f...

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A new study by Mohr et al. (including our very own Prof. Senf) shows that forest disturbance costs in Europe could more than double under future climate scenarios, underlining the importance of adaptation in forestry. More details: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rising cost of disturbances for forestry in Europe under climate change - Nature Climate Change

Climate change will raise the severity and frequency of forest disturbance, damaging the economic value of timber. Researchers show Europe’s timber-based forestry could lose up to €247 billion, yet in...

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We keep growing! Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Can we map species richness across taxonomic groups from space? Promising results for fungi, plants, insects and birds in a mountain forest landscape, obtained by @corneliussenf.bsky.social et al. by combining different sensors (EnMAP, Sentinel-1/2). doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We had to change our summer retreat plans due to bad weather but Munichs technical museum was a great alternative. They even have a stuffed spy pigeon on display!

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We warmly congratulate @lisa-mandl.bsky.social on her successful PhD defence! In accordance with tradition, Lisa is wearing a special hand-made hat 🎓, illustrating her research and PhD journey, and signifying her transformation into Dr. Mandl😉

Prof. Seidl, Prof. Senf, Dr. Mandl, Prof. Stritih

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Were recent waves of large-scale forest dieback predictable? We say yes! A simple approach to describe temporal disturbance dynamics based on Taylor's Law. Now out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/euG1A Thanks @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social for this great project!

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Realistic virtual forests for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space

Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and composition due to land use change and natural distur…

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Greetings from the #LPS in Vienna! Tomorrow's the last and the hottest (at least for us) day at the conference: a talk by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and posters by a lot of PhD students! Do not miss the chance to connect ;)

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

We will be in Vienna for the entire next week, attending the Living Planet Symposium! Below is an overview of our talks and posters:🧵 #LPS25

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🎓 Come work with us! We are offering a new PhD position in our lab! You will study the impacts of forest disturbance and fragmentation on microclimate and forest regeneration, together with @katjakowalski.bsky.social. Applicants from diverse backgrounds encouraged! shorturl.at/RT4uk Please RT!

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This year, we have only a small - but mighty - presence at the @egu.eu annual conference. Come spark some tree-mendous ideas with our doctoral researcher Brittany Engle @englebritt.bsky.social who will present results of her work on mapping lightning-ignited boreal wildfires! ⚡️🔥🌲

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Katarzyna Ewa Lewińska @kelewinska.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

📣In our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover: - for monthly composites data density is irrelevant - correct endmember definitions are critical‼️ Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Natural disturbances are often invoked as an argument against creating new forest reserves. But are reserves more affected by disturbances than managed forests? For C Europe the answer is no, in fact reserves have lower disturbance rate & severity than managed forests! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Strengthening European Forest Monitoring with Earth Observation! 🌍 Led by Prof. Martin Herold, 77 EO experts signed an open letter to the European Commission to consider wider implementation of Earth Observation data for the reevaluation of the Forest Monitoring Law. 🌳🛰️ Read here: shorturl.at/Kst5t

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

And just another example of using our European disturbance dataset. Susanne Suvanto @ssuvanto.bsky.social analysed forest harvesting regimes in Europe and assessed the importance of socioeconomic factors and disturbances for harvest intensity. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🎥 Our postdoc Alba Viana-Soto @albavianasoto.bsky.social talked about the development of innovative Earth observation tools for monitoring forest disturbances as part of the ForestPaths project @forestpaths.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGKN...

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Pan-European Forest Disturbance Maps: Interview with Alba Viana-Soto

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Together with a lot of colleagues, we show how to make in-situ monitoring networks more efficient, and how remote sensing 🛰️ and modeling can be used to complement them.

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Another example of how our European forest disturbance data can be integrated in conservation research: colleagues from @au.dk (Aarhus Uni) mapped high conservation value forests in Denmark and analysed the rates of disturbance therein (very low!): conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Example of disturbance (including management) detected since 2015 for the Mols Bjerge Region in Eastern Jutland based on the disturbance masks provided by Senf and Seidl (2021). The two top panels show an orthophoto from summer 2014 without annotation (top-left) and with the projected forest conservation value superimposed (top-right). Light green indicates a potential high conservation value and rust indicates a potentially low conservation value. The bottom panels show an orthophoto from spring 2021 without annotations (bottom-left) and with annotation of the areas detected as disturbed between 2015 and 2020 (bottom-right). Disturbed polygons are indicated in purple. Orthophotos provided by Styrelsen for Dataforsyning og Effektivisering (2022).

Predicted locations of high and low conservation value forests across the whole of Denmark (map on left) and for the Frederiksdal region (panels on right)—not accounting for disturbance. The upper right panel depicts an orthophoto of the Frederiksdal region (summer 2014); the lower right panel shows the same orthophoto with the forest conservation value projections overlain on top. Orthophotos provided by Styrelsen for Dataforsyning og Effektivisering (2022).

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

TUM is looking for a new tenure track Professor on Transformative Landscape Governance, bridging between landscape planning, social sciences and quantitative land system science. Open to early-career candidates, female applicants especially encouraged! Details: portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess...

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TUM - Professor in »Transformative Landscape Governance«

Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München

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Jonas Alsleben @jalsleben.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Happy to share our new paper on soil-specific unmixing of croplands in Germany led by Felix Lobert. We adapted @katjakowalski.bsky.social’s approach using #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ to account for soil variability using a soil reflectance composite developed at @thuenen.de EO: tinyurl.com/5n92ae5z

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🎥 How do we study forests using satellite and laser data? Here's a overview by our Prof. Cornelius Senf (@corneliussenf.bsky.social) in a short video produced by @daadworldwide.bsky.social (with English subs): www.youtube.com/watch?si=KPm...

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Satelliten und Laser in der Waldforschung – Prof. Dr. Cornelius Senf zu seiner Forschung

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

In a new paper, Anne Graser from University of Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social used our European disturbance map to understand disturbance and post-disturbance management impact on bird communities in Central Europe: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Predicted density of 37 bird species modelled via community distance sampling for years since disturbance. Red-listed species are shown with a red-bordered header box. Coloured header boxes indicated the habitat affiliation: Green: forest, yellow: farmland/open land, white: several. Species for which the posterior checks did not indicate that the models are reliable are labelled n.r. (not reliable).

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Welcome to the new BlueSky page of our group! Follow for updates on our research in many collaborative projects examining forest structure, disturbance and recovery - with the main focus on European temperate forests and a new direction exploring the Eurasian boreal biome!

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