Fabian Löw

Dr. Fabian Löw is a research consultant at the Geoinformatics Unit of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Dr. Löw received his Diploma degree from Heidelberg University, Germany, in Geography, Biology and Environmental Chemistry in 2009 and his Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from the Department of Remote Sensing of the Germany Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Würzburg, Germany in 2014. His PhD was funded by the German Academic Foundation and was about “Agricultural crop mapping from multi-scale remote sensing data – Concepts and applications in heterogeneous Middle Asian agricultural landscapes”. From 2014-2015 he was a post-doctoral fellow in Würzburg and started working as a consultant for ICARDA as of 2014. In 2015 his PhD was awarded by Würzburg Geographical Society. Since 2015 he works as a referent for the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), Bonn, Germany. His work focusses on remote sensing and the European Copernicus earth observation program in the context of risk and disaster management. His research interest lies on satellite remote sensing for agricultural monitoring and environmental monitoring. His recent projects relate to irrigated cropland mapping, crop yield estimation, and land use intensity assessments. His recent work about locust monitoring in the Amudarya delta, Central Asia was awarded at the International Geoscience Union (IGU) conference in 2015. He has given several training courses on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing, and has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and frequently presents at international conferences and workshops.