Stefan Erasmi

Stefan Erasmi was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1969. He received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in geography from the University of Göttingen, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2019, he worked in research and education at the Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen. Since 2019, he has been a Senior Research Scientist with Thünen Institute of Farm Economics, Braunschweig. He has long experience in monitoring agricultural land-use and land-cover, agricultural practices, landscape patterns, and forest parameters from multi-source satellite data for applications in ecology and socio-economics. At Thünen Institute, he is leading the Thünen Earth Observation (ThEO) Working Group that provides EO-based area-wide solutions and objective information for policymakers in terms of the impact assessment of political decisions as well as societal and environmental trends. He is an Editor of the Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science (PFG).