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Technical University of Munich

Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management

Prof. Cornelius Senf’s research is located at the interface of Earth observation and ecology. His current research focuses on the remote sensing of ecosystems under climate and land use change. The overarching goal of his research is to provide scientific insights that improve the sustainable management of ecosystems. From a methodological perspective, Senf covers a wide range of tools, including spaceborne remote sensing and active methods such as laser-scanning.
More information: https://www.lss.ls.tum.de/en/eoem/start/

Publications by the Focus Group

2026

  • Cherlet, Wout; Dayal, Karun; Chen, Shilin; Cooper, Zane; Disney, Mathias; Hanzl, Andreas; Levick, Shaun; Nightingale, Joanne; Origo, Niall; Senf, Cornelius; Soenens, Luna; Terryn, Louise; Van den Broeck, Wouter A.J.; Calders, Kim: Benchmarking tree instance segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 231, 2026, 230-247 more…

2025

  • Towards a global understanding of tree mortality. New Phytologist 245 (6), 2025, 2377-2392 more…
  • Assmann, Jakob J.; Pedersen, Pil B. M.; Moeslund, Jesper E.; Senf, Cornelius; Treier, Urs A.; Corcoran, Derek; Koma, Zsófia; Nord‐Larsen, Thomas; Normand, Signe: Temperate forests of high conservation value are successfully identified by satellite and LiDAR data fusion. Conservation Science and Practice 7 (2), 2025 more…
  • Braziunas, Kristin H.; Rammer, Werner; De Frenne, Pieter; Díaz-Calafat, Joan; Hedwall, Per-Ola; Senf, Cornelius; Thom, Dominik; Zellweger, Florian; Seidl, Rupert: Microclimate temperature effects propagate across scales in forest ecosystems. Landscape Ecology 40 (2), 2025 more…
  • Calders, Kim; Herold, Martin; Adams, Jennifer; Armston, John; Brede, Benjamin; Cherlet, Wout; Cooper, Zane T.; Dayal, Karun; Frenne, Pieter De; Levick, Shaun R.; Meir, Patrick; Origo, Niall; Senf, Cornelius; Soenens, Luna; Terryn, Louise; Van den Broeck, Wouter A.J.; Vastaranta, Mikko; Verbeeck, Hans; Villard, Ludovic; Disney, Mathias: Realistic virtual forests for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 227, 2025, 501-507 more…
  • Engle, Brittany; Bratoev, Ivan; Crowley, Morgan A.; Zhu, Yanan; Senf, Cornelius: Distribution and characteristics of lightning-ignited wildfires in boreal forests – the BoLtFire database. Earth System Science Data 17 (6), 2025, 2249-2276 more…
  • Graser, Anne; Frank, Claudia; Kunz, Friederike; Schuldt, Andreas; Senf, Cornelius; Sudfeldt, Christoph; Trautmann, Sven; Kamp, Johannes: Increase in disturbance-induced canopy gaps leads to reorganization of Central European bird communities. Basic and Applied Ecology 83, 2025, 88-97 more…
  • Krüger, Kirsten; Senf, Cornelius; Hagge, Jonas; Seidl, Rupert: Setting aside areas for conservation does not increase disturbances in temperate forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 62 (5), 2025, 1271-1281 more…
  • Mandl, Lisa; Cerioni, Matteo; Bače, Radek; Bončina, Andrej; Brůna, Josef; Chećko, Ewa; de Koning, Johannes H. C.; Diaci, Jurij; Dobrowolska, Dorota; Fidej, Gal; Garbarino, Matteo; Jansons, Āris; Keren, Srdjan; Kitenberga, Māra; Klopčič, Matija; Konôpka, Bohdan; Kopecký, Martin; Köster, Kajar; Kucbel, Stanislav; Lingua, Emanuele; Macek, Martin; Marzano, Raffaella; Metslaid, Marek; Panayotov, Momchil; Pittner, Ján; Šebeň, Vladimír; Socha, Jarosław; Svoboda, Miroslav; Szwagrzyk, Jerzy; Tsvetanov, Nickolay; Urbinati, Carlo; Vencurik, Jaroslav; Vitali, Alessandro; Vodde, Floortje; Wild, Jan; Nagel, Thomas A.; Senf, Cornelius: The amount of undisturbed forest in proximity of severe disturbance patches enhances their recovery in temperate Europe. Landscape Ecology 40 (11), 2025 more…
  • Mohr, Johannes S.; Bastit, Félix; Grünig, Marc; Knoke, Thomas; Rammer, Werner; Senf, Cornelius; Thom, Dominik; Seidl, Rupert: Rising cost of disturbances for forestry in Europe under climate change. Nature Climate Change 15 (10), 2025, 1078-1083 more…
  • Richter, Tobias; Seidl, Rupert; Geres, Lisa Samira; König, Sebastian; Mandl, Lisa; Senf, Cornelius; Keller, Alexander; Seibold, Sebastian: Landscape context modulates the effect of local canopy cover on forest multidiversity across elevations. Journal of Applied Ecology 62 (12), 2025, 3537-3549 more…
  • Senf, Cornelius; Geres, Lisa; Richter, Tobias; Braziunas, Kristin; Glasmann, Felix; Seidl, Rupert; Seibold, Sebastian: Spaceborne remote sensing effectively maps species richness across taxonomic groups in a mountain landscape. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 143, 2025, 104797 more…
  • Senf, Cornelius; Seidl, Rupert; Knoke, Thomas; Jucker, Tommaso: Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change. Nature Communications 16 (1), 2025 more…
  • Sevastopolsky, Artem; Grassal, Philip-William; Giebenhain, Simon; Athar, ShahRukh; Verdoliva, Luisa; Nießner, Matthias: HeadCraft: Modeling High-Detail Shape Variations for Animated 3DMMs. 2025 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), IEEE, 2025, 1551-1561 more…
  • Suvanto, Susanne; Esquivel‐Muelbert, Adriane; Schelhaas, Mart‐Jan; Astigarraga, Julen; Astrup, Rasmus; Cienciala, Emil; Fridman, Jonas; Henttonen, Helena M.; Kunstler, Georges; Kändler, Gerald; König, Louis A.; Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma; Senf, Cornelius; Stadelmann, Golo; Starcevic, Ajdin; Talarczyk, Andrzej; Zavala, Miguel A.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.: Understanding Europe's Forest Harvesting Regimes. Earth's Future 13 (2), 2025 more…
  • Viana-Soto, Alba; Senf, Cornelius: The European Forest Disturbance Atlas: a forest disturbance monitoring system using the Landsat archive. Earth System Science Data 17 (6), 2025, 2373-2404 more…

2024

  • Acil, Nezha; Sadler, Jonathan P.; Senf, Cornelius; Suvanto, Susanne; Pugh, Thomas A. M.: Landscape patterns in stand-replacing disturbances across the world’s forests. Nature Sustainability 8 (1), 2024, 86-98 more…
  • Bathiany, Sebastian; Bastiaansen, Robbin; Bastos, Ana; Blaschke, Lana; Lever, Jelle; Loriani, Sina; De Keersmaecker, Wanda; Dorigo, Wouter; Milenković, Milutin; Senf, Cornelius; Smith, Taylor; Verbesselt, Jan; Boers, Niklas: Ecosystem Resilience Monitoring and Early Warning Using Earth Observation Data: Challenges and Outlook. Surveys in Geophysics 46 (2), 2024, 265-301 more…
  • Braziunas, Kristin H.; Geres, Lisa; Richter, Tobias; Glasmann, Felix; Senf, Cornelius; Thom, Dominik; Seibold, Sebastian; Seidl, Rupert: Projected climate and canopy change lead to thermophilization and homogenization of forest floor vegetation in a hotspot of plant species richness. Global Change Biology 30 (1), 2024 more…
  • Graser, Anne; Georg, Malte; Kallmayer, Josef; Marten, Andreas; Pertl, Caren; Rumpf, Hendrik; Senf, Cornelius; Kamp, Johannes: Large‐scale forest disturbance and associated management shape bird communities in Central European spruce forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 62 (2), 2024, 329-343 more…
  • Kowalski, Katja; Senf, Cornelius; Okujeni, Akpona; Hostert, Patrick: Large‐scale remote sensing analysis reveals an increasing coupling of grassland vitality to atmospheric water demand. Global Change Biology 30 (5), 2024 more…
  • Krüger, Kirsten; Senf, Cornelius; Jucker, Tommaso; Pflugmacher, Dirk; Seidl, Rupert: Gap expansion is the dominant driver of canopy openings in a temperate mountain forest landscape. Journal of Ecology 112 (7), 2024, 1501-1515 more…
  • Lecina‐Diaz, Judit; Senf, Cornelius; Grünig, Marc; Seidl, Rupert: Ecosystem services at risk from disturbance in Europe's forests. Global Change Biology 30 (3), 2024 more…
  • Mandl, Lisa; Viana-Soto, Alba; Seidl, Rupert; Stritih, Ana; Senf, Cornelius: Unmixing-based forest recovery indicators for predicting long-term recovery success. Remote Sensing of Environment 308, 2024, 114194 more…
  • Richter, Tobias; Geres, Lisa; König, Sebastian; Braziunas, Kristin H.; Senf, Cornelius; Thom, Dominik; Bässler, Claus; Müller, Jörg; Seidl, Rupert; Seibold, Sebastian: Effects of climate and forest development on habitat specialization and biodiversity in Central European mountain forests. Communications Biology 7 (1), 2024 more…
  • Seibold, Sebastian; Richter, Tobias; Geres, Lisa; Seidl, Rupert; Martin, Ralph; Mitesser, Oliver; Senf, Cornelius; Griem, Lukas; Müller, Jörg: Soundscapes and airborne laser scanning identify vegetation density and its interaction with elevation as main driver of bird diversity and community composition. Diversity and Distributions 30 (12), 2024 more…
  • Seidl, Rupert; Senf, Cornelius: Changes in planned and unplanned canopy openings are linked in Europe’s forests. Nature Communications 15 (1), 2024 more…
  • Stritih, Ana; Senf, Cornelius; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Munteanu, Catalina; Dzadzamia, Lasha; Stritih, Jernej; Matijašić, Dragan; Cortner, Owen; Seidl, Rupert: Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes. Landscape Ecology 39 (6), 2024 more…
  • Stritih, Ana; Senf, Cornelius; Marsoner, Thomas; Seidl, Rupert: Mapping the natural disturbance risk to protective forests across the European Alps. Journal of Environmental Management 366, 2024, 121659 more…
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