Langezijds

dr. M. Schlund (Michael)

Assistant Professor
ITC-NRS
Langezijds 1125
m.schlund@utwente.nl
+31534896374
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation. My research and teaching activities concentrate on the monitoring of land cover information and the estimation of biophysical parameters with active remote sensing on multiple scales. This includes the development of land cover classifications and the research on forest height as well as aboveground biomass retrieval algorithms based on interferometric SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data from space and experimental airborne SAR data. I am also interested in the upscaling of quantitative information such as forest height and biomass from the field to airborne and spaceborne laser scanning and SAR data. The different retrieval algorithms are based on empirically as well as physically-based modelling and methods of data science. I am also interested in the monitoring of agricultural crops with dense time-series of active remote sensing data.

Before joining the University of Twente in 2020, I obtained a BSc, a MSc and a PhD from the University of Jena, Germany. My PhD was on the use of interferometric SAR data for land cover monitoring and aboveground biomass retrieval, and was completed in 2015. Between 2016 and 2018, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mission Science Division of the European Space Agency. In addition, I was a Scientist at the University of Göttingen between 2018 and 2020.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Datum
    • Forest
    • Synthetic Aperture Radar
    • TanDEM-X
    • Height
    • Aboveground Biomass
    • Canopy
    • Model

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Publications

2025

Investigating LiDAR Metrics for Old-Growth Beech- and Spruce-Dominated Forest Identification in Central Europe (2025)Remote sensing, 17(2). Adiningrat, D. P., Skidmore, A. K., Schlund, M., Wang, T., Abdullah, H. & Heurich, M.https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17020251Estimation of transplanting and harvest dates of rice crops in the Philippines using Sentinel-1 data (2025)Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 37. Article 101435. Galay Cauba Jr., A., Darvishzadeh, R., Schlund, M., Nelson, A. D. & Laborte, A. G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101435

2024

Diverse and larger tree islands promote native tree diversity in oil palm landscapes (2024)Science, 386(6723), 795–802. Paterno, G. B., Brambach, F., Guerrero-Ramírez, N., Zemp, D. C., Cantillo, A. F., Camarretta, N., Moura, C. C. M., Gailing, O., Ballauff, J., Polle, A., Schlund, M., Erasmi, S., Iddris, N. A., Khokthong, W., Sundawati, L., Irawan, B., Hölscher, D. & Kreft, H.https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado1629Mapping aboveground biomass in Indonesian lowland forests using GEDI and hierarchical models (2024)Remote sensing of environment, 313. Article 114384. May, P. B., Schlund, M., Armston, J., Kotowska, M. M., Brambach, F., Wenzel, A. & Erasmi, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114384Comparing airborne and terrestrial LiDAR with ground-based inventory metrics of vegetation structural complexity in oil palm agroforests (2024)Ecological indicators, 166. Article 112306. Montoya-Sánchez, V., Camarretta, N., Ehbrecht, M., Schlund, M., Brant Paterno, G., Seidel, D., Guerrero-Ramírez, N., Brambach, F., Hölscher, D., Kreft, H., Irawan, B., Sundawati, L. & Zemp, D. C.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112306Mapping temperate old-growth forests in Central Europe using ALS and Sentinel-2A multispectral data (2024)Environmental monitoring and assessment, 196. Article 841. Adiningrat, D. P., Schlund, M., Skidmore, A. K., Abdullah, H., Wang, T. & Heurich, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12993-5Estimation of transplanting and harvest dates of Rice crops in the Philippines using Sentinel-1 data (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Galay Cauba Jr., A., Darvishzadeh, R., Schlund, M., Nelson, A. D. & Laborte, A. G.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4939576Detection and attribution of cereal yield losses using Sentinel-2 and weather data: A case study in South Australia (2024)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 213, 33-52. Duan, K., Vrieling, A., Schlund, M., Nidumolu, U. B., Ratcliff, C., Collings, S. & Nelson, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.05.021Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations (2024)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(17), e2307220121. Article e2307220121. Wenzel, A., Westphal, C., Ballauff, J., Berkelmann, D., Brambach, F., Buchori, D., Camarretta, N., Corre, M. D., Daniel, R., Darras, K., Erasmi, S., Formaglio, G., Hölscher, D., Iddris, N. A. A., Irawan, B., Knohl, A., Kotowska, M. M., Krashevska, V., Kreft, H., … Grass, I.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307220121

2023

A deep learning approach for deriving winter wheat phenology from optical and SAR time series at field level (2023)Remote sensing of environment, 298. Article 113800. Lobert, F., Löw, J., Schwieder, M., Gocht, A., Schlund, M., Hostert, P. & Erasmi, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113800

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