Dr. Insa Otte
Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung
+49 (0)931 31-80297
+49 (0)931 31-802970
insa.otte@uni-wuerzburg.de
Institut für Geographie und Geologie
Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung
John Skilton Str. 4a
97074 Würzburg
nach Vereinbarung
Forschungsschwerpunkte und Interessen:
Datacubes, alpine und tropische Ökosysteme, Klimawandel, raum-zeitliche Datenanalysen, GIS und Fernerkundung, Stabile Isotope Niederschlag, Extremereignisse Niederschlag, Ostafrika, südliches Afrika
Seit 12-2020
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterin Universität Würzburg, FB Geographie, Fernerkundung
2018 - 2020
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin beim Deutschen Wetterdienst im MUNSTAR (Methodische Untersuchungen zur Novellierung der Starkregenstatistik) Projekt, Hydrometorologie
2017 - 2018
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) im DFG Projekt Kilimanjaro, Philipps-Universität Marburg, FB Geographie, Umweltinformatik
2012 - 2016
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (PhD Student) im DFG Projekt Kilimanjaro, Philipps-Universität Marburg, FB Geographie, Umweltinformatik
2017
Promotion an der Universität Marburg, FB Geographie, AG Umweltinformatik. Thema: Global Climate Change vs. Local Land-Use Change and ist Impact on the Atmospheric Water Input along an Elevation and Disturbance Gradient at Mt. Kilimanjaro
2005 – 2012
Diplomarbeit an der Universität Marburg, FB Geographie, AG Klimatologie und Fernerkundung. Thema: Untersuchungen zum aktuellen und zukünftigen Nährstoffeintrag in einen Bergregenwald Südecuadors auf der Basis von Messdaten, IPCC-SRES Emissionsszenarien und Simulationsrechnungen bis zum Jahr 2100.
Hauptfach: Geographie
Nebenfächer: Jura, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Meteorologie
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. (2025): Integrating the landscape scale supports SAR-based detection and assessment of the phenological development at the field level. In: Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 6 (161005), 17.
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. (2025): A Spatial Decision Support System for climate-adapted agriculture designed with and for stakeholders in West Africa. In: Climate Services, 39, 16.
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. (2025): Earth observations reveal impacts of climate variability on maize cropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa. In: GIScience and Remote Sensing, 62 (1), 19.
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. (2025): Synergistic use of satellite, legacy, and in situ data to predict spatio-temporal patterns of the invasive Lantana camara in a savannah ecosystem. In: Frontiers in Plant Science, 16 -2025
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. (2025): Erhaltung der Biodiversität in Schutzgebieten und Agrarwirtschaft in Westafrika in Zeiten des Klimawandels (Biodiversity conservation in protected areas and agriculture in West Africa in times of climate change). In: Natur und Landschaft, 2025 (9/10), 426-32.
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. (2024): A multi-talented datacube: integrating, processing and presenting big geodata for the agricultural end user
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. (2024): Integrating, Processing and Presenting Big Geodata with Earth Observation Datacubes in an Interdisciplinary Research Context
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. (2024): Harmonized NDVI time-series from Landsat and Sentinel-2 reveal phenological patterns of diverse, small-scale cropping systems in East Africa. In: Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 35, 101230.
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. (2024): How Phenology Shapes Crop-Specific Sentinel-1 PolSAR Features and InSAR Coherence across Multiple Years and Orbits. In: Remote Sensing, 16 (2791), 26.
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. (2024): A New Era of Earth Observation for the Environment: Spatio-Temporal Monitoring Capabilities for Land Degradation
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. (2024): Observational Support for Regional Policy Implementation: Land Surface Change Under Anthropogenic and Climate Pressure in SALDi Study Sites.
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. (2022): Potential of Airborne {LiDAR} Derived Vegetation Structure for the Prediction of Animal Species Richness at Mount Kilimanjaro. In: Remote Sensing, 14 (3), 786.
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. (2022): Pathways to using remote sensing in crop cultivation and management - the German digital test field AgriSens DEMMIN 4.0
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. (2021): Associations of bird and bat species richness with temperature and remote sensing-based vegetation structure on a tropical mountain. In: Biotropica
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. (2020): Atmospheric moisture pathways of East Africa and implications for water recycling at Mount Kilimanjaro. In: International Journal of Climatology, 40 (10), 4477-96.
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. (2020): Spatial and temporal ²H and 18O isotope variation of contemporary precipitation in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. In: Isotopes in Environmental & Health Studies, 56, 122-35.
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. (2019): Climate-land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions. In: Nature, 568 (7750), 88-92.
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. (2017): Seasonality of stable isotope composition of atmospheric water input at the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In: Hydrological Processes, 31 (22), 3932-47.
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. (2017): A glimpse at short-term controls of evapotranspiration along the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro. In: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189 (9), 465.
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. (2017): Multidecadal Trends and Interannual Variability of Rainfall as Observed from Five Lowland Stations at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In: Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18 (2), 349-61.
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. (2017): Synergistic effects of climate and land use on avian beta diversity. Diversity and Distributions. In: Diversity and Distributions, 23, 1246-55.
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. (2016): Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level. In: Nature Communications, 7 (1)
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. (2016): Seasonal and long-term vegetation dynamics from 1-km {GIMMS}-based {NDVI} time series at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In: Remote Sensing of Environment, 178, 70-83.
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. (2016): A Comparative Study of Cross-Product {NDVI} Dynamics in the Kilimanjaro Region{\textemdash}A Matter of Sensor, Degradation Calibration, and Significance. In: Remote Sensing, 8 (2), 159.
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. (2016): Heterogeneous patterns of abundance of epigeic arthropod taxa along a major elevation gradient. In: Biotropica, 49, 217-28.
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. (2015): Eco-meteorological characteristics of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In: International Journal of Climatology, 36 (9), 3245-58.
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. (2013): Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador
