- Remote sensing
- Radar time series
- Ecosystem monitoring
- Land surface dynamics
M.Sc. Johannes Löw
JL : M.Sc. Johannes Löw (Fellow)
Areas of responsibility
Research assistant Area: Geoecology
Contact options (Löw, Johannes)
Mail: johannes.loew@geo.uni-halle.de | Tel: +49 (0)345 55-26045 | | Room: H4 1.37 | Consultation hours: by arrangement(during the semester break only by appointment)
Shortbio
Focus Areas:
Earth observation, Land Surface Dynamics, Radar, Crop Phenology
Research
Projects
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DiP-ZAZIkI Project (Geoecology)
Climate fit for the future: DiP-ZAZIkI develops sustainable cultivation systems for sugar beet using innovative digital technologies and artificial intelligence. (ZAZIkI


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AgriSens-DEMMIN 4.0 Project (Geoecology)
Finding efficient and sustainable solutions to adapt to the effects of global change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century. (AgriSens
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PhenoSAR-Demmin Project (Geoecology)
Which phenological times can be observed with radar data? PhenoSAR analyses Sentinel-1 time series for crop monitoring in agriculture. (PhenoSAR


Biography
- since 07/2022
Research assistant at the Chair of Geoecology, University of Halle-Wittenberg - 09/2020 – 06/2022
Research Assistant at the Chair of Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg, seconded to: Chair of Geoecology, University of Halle-Wittenberg - 06/2019 – 06/2020
Research assistant at the Chair of Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg in the project MedWater - 04/2019 – 06/2019
Research Assistant at the Chair of Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg - 10/2016 – 03/2019
Study of Earth Observation and Geoanalysis “EAGLE” (M.Sc.), University of Würzburg
Master thesis: “Interferometric and polarimetric signatures of agricultural crops using multi-temporal dual-polarimetric Sentinel-1 Imagery: a case study in north-eastern Germany” - 11/2017 – 12/2017
Intern at the WASCAL Competence Centre Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - 12/2016 – 12/2017
Research assistant at the Chair of Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg - 10/2012 – 09/2016
Study of Geography (B.Sc.) with focus on Human Geography and Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg
Bachelor thesis: Analysis of soil moisture development in Central Asian irrigation systems using CCI Soil moisture time series - 07/2015 – 08/2015
Intern, Department of Land Surface Dynamics, German Remote Sensing Data Centre (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Publications
Supervised Theses
Relevant Posts & Pages (13)
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ZAZIkI at the INNOSPACE Annual Conference ( Post: Project Geoecology )
As our working group is now a member of Space2Agriculture, Johannes Löw attended the annual conference in Bonn on our behalf.
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New publication on radar data in agricultural monitoring ( Post: Publication Geoecology )
New publication on the topic of radar remote sensing in phenology monitoring of agricultural areas.
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Vienna Calling – Our contribution to the ESA Living Planet Symposium ( Post: International Geoecology )
Johannes Löw was at the ESA Living Planet Symposium in Vienna from 22 June to 27 June 2025 with his work from the AgriSens Demmin 4.0 and DIP-ZAZIkI projects…
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DIP-ZAZIkI project meeting in Halle ( Post: Project Geoecology )
On 17 June 2025, the DIP-ZAZIkI consortium met for a project meeting in Halle. The meeting was used to discuss ongoing and planned work in the project.
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Radar remote sensing and phenology: Presentation at the 44th EARSeL Symposium in Prague ( Post: International Geoecology )
As our specialist group is also a member of EARSeL, Johannes Löw represented us this year at the 44th EARSeL Symposium in Prague. Here he presented parts of…
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Halle-Würzburg cooperation in the field of Big EO Data ( Post: Cooperation Geoecology )
The negotiations to continue the cooperation between Geoecology [MLU] and the EORC at JMU were successful. On 19 May 2025, Johannes Löw [MLU] and Dr Insa Otte…
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Goodbye AgriSens, hello ZAZIkI ( Post: Project Geoecology )
How do you actually transfer results, workflows, networks or data from one project to the next when the consortia dissolve at the end of the project? Johannes…
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DiP launches into the future of the bioeconomy with up to 105 million euros – geoecology involved in 3 projects ( Post: Project Geoecology )
At our official kick-off event for the "Digitalisation of plant value chains" on 4 March 2025, all 19 DiP joint projects were able to present themselves and…
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AgriSens-DEMMIN 4.0: Results symposium at Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences ( Post: Project Geoecology )
On 25 February 2025, the AgriSens DEMMIN 4.0 project concluded with a symposium to present and discuss the results of five years of applied research into…
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New publication: Estimation of 100 m root zone soil moisture by downscaling 1 km soil water index with machine learning … ( Post: Publication Geoecology )
Talha Mahmood and other colleagues from the Geoecology working group have published a new paper on soil moisture estimation using remote sensing and other…
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New publication: How Phenology Shapes Crop-Specific Sentinel-1 PolSAR Features and InSAR Coherence across Multiple Years… ( Post: Publication Geoecology )
Johannes Löw has published a new article on "How Phenology Shapes Crop-Specific Sentinel-1 PolSAR Features and InSAR Coherence across Multiple Years and…
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Presentation on radar remote sensing at the EARSeL Symposium Manchester, UK ( Post: International Geoecology )
Our PhD student Johannes Löw travelled to Manchester, UK from 17.06. to 20.06.2024 for the EARSel Symposium to present parts of his dissertation as part of the…
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Geoecology working group represented at the “8th Galileo Conference: A European vision for hydrological observatio… ( Post: International Geoecology )
Our PhD students Jan Lukas Wenzel, Léonard El-Hokayem and Johannes Löw took part in the 8th Galileo Conference: A European vision for hydrological observations…