Mitarbeiter:innen
Dr.
Benjamin Brede
Haus
A 17,
Raum
20.20 (Technikraum/Rechnerraum)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Funktion und Aufgaben:
- Work group leader Integrated Sensing
- OPS Manager for UAV specific flight operations in section 1.4
Wissenschaftliche Interessen:
- Vegetation characterisation (e.g. leaf area, biomass) based on proximal sensing, in particular terrestrial and UAV-based Lidar
- Novel monitoring concepts for vegetation: monitoring lidar, GNSS-T VOD (global navigation satellite system - Transmissometry vegetation optical depth)
- Upscaling of in situ/proximal observations to satellite scale for calibration/validation
Karriere:
2026 - present: Work group leader Integrated Sensing, GFZ Potsdam
2022 - 2026: Postdoc, GFZ Potsdam
2019 - 2022: Postdoc, Wageningen University & Research
Werdegang / Ausbildung:
2019: PhD in vegetation remote sensing, Wageningen University & Research
2015: MSc in Geo-information Science, Wageningen University & Research
2012: BSc in Geography, Philipps Universität Marburg
Projekte:
Current
- 2025 - 2026 DLR VeggieH Phase 0, role: member
- 2024 - 2029 HE NextGenCarbon, role: member
- 2024 - 2025 ESA Forest Digital Twin Component, role: task lead
- 2024 - 2025 ESA QA4EO-2, role: WP lead
- 2024 - 2028 HE RemoTrees, role: WP lead
- 2022 - 2027 HE FORWARDS, role: member
Past
- 2021 - 2025 COST 3DForEcoTech, role: task co-lead
- 2019 - 2024 ESA IDEAS-QA4EO, role: WP lead
- 2019 - 2023 ESA FORESTSCAN, role: WP co-lead
- 2021 - 2022 ESA TomoSense, role: WP lead
- 2018 - 2022 COST SENSECO (Optical synergies for spatiotemporal SENsing of Scalable ECOphysiological traits), role: member
- 2015 - 2019 ESA IDEAS+, role: WP lead
Wissenschaftliche Gremien:
- StrucNet: continuous monitoring of vegetation structure through autonomous ground based laser scanning, role: Steering Committee