About

updated Aug 2019

My name is Martin Brandt and I’m a physical geographer using satellite data to monitor vegetation dynamics related to climate change and human management. My regional focus is in the Sahel of Western Africa, especially Mali and Senegal, where I’ve spent a lot of time doing field work, but I’m more and more involved in global studies. Recently I’ve been also working in southern China. Beside producing interesting maps in the office, I’m especially interested in explaining remote sensing results locally on the ground, which includes vegetation surveys, but also “socializing pixels” by intensive work with humans living and acting within the pixel.

Since 2015 I’m at the University of Copenhagen, currently as assistant Professor. I’m also section editor for the journal Land Degradation and Development.

Key collaborations:

• Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, China
• GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, USA
• INRA, Bordeaux, France
• CESBIO, Toulouse, France
• Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) – Sénégal
• Laboratoire Géosciences Environnement (GET), Toulouse, France
• World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
• Institute Economie Rural (IER) – Mali
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar – Sénégal
• USGS – USA
• CREAF Global Ecology Unit – Spain
• ANACIM – Sénégal
• ISOE – Germany
• University of Vienna – Austria
• University of Bayreuth – Germany
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) / Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University – Sweden