Rasmus Fensholt
Professional Address: Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Tel: +45 35322500, Fax: +45 35322501
E-mail: rf@geogr.ku.dk
Occupation: Post doctoral research position at Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen (IGUC).
University degrees: 1998 MSc, IGUC; 2003 PhD in Geography, IGUC.
Employment record:
1998 Research assistant at the Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen.
1999 Consultant for 'Cowi Consulting' and the National Ministry of Hydrology in Dakar, Senegal.
2001 Consultant at the Geographic Resource Analysis & Science (GRAS) A/S.
2004 Post doctoral research position at IGUC.
2007 Assistant professor at IGUC.
Recent, selected scientific projects and activities:
1996: Participation in fieldwork activities within to the scientific research programme SEREIN (Sahel-Sudan Environmental Research Initiative) in Burkina Faso.
2001: Responsible for development of a field work test site in semi-arid Senegal. Extensive field campaigns are planned and conducted resulting in a 5+ year unique data series of radiation parameters for vegetation indices, flux estimates and various standard agro-climatological measurements.
2002: Affiliated the Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), School of Forestry, University of Montana, USA.
2004: Member of the international peer review group for Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Remote Sensing and IEEE Transactions of Geoscience Remote Sensing.
2005: Affiliated NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center at Earth Sciences Technology Center and University of Maryland, USA.
2005: Affiliated Department of Geography, University of Boston, USA.
2006: Coordinator of a 3 year project; “Developing new methodologies for agricultural and rangeland applications in the tropics based on new generation satellite data” based in Kenya.
Current research areas:
· Assessment of Primary Production and agro-hydrological variables using Earth Observation data.
· Natural resource management using Earth Observation data.
Current teaching areas:
· Advanced Remote Rensing of the Bio-Geosphere
Popularization of research
· Participation in numerous research workshops and conferences during recent years
· Public lectures for high school students in association with several Natural Science Festivals
· Popular papers in Danish journals; Geoviden and Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography
Selected, reviewed publications since 2001
Fensholt, R., Sandholt., Stisen, S. and Tucker, C. (2006). Vegetation monitoring with the geostationary Meteosat Second Generation SEVIRI sensor. Remote Sensing of Environment, 101, 212-229.
Fensholt, R., Nielsen, T. T. and Stisen, S. (2006). Comparing time series of NDVI 10-day composite AVHRR Pathfinder and SPOT-4 Vegetation data for the African continent. International Journal of Remote Sensing, In press.
Fensholt, R. and Sandholt, I. (2006). Evaluating MODIS, SPOT Vegetation and MERIS vegetation indices using in situ measurements in a semi-arid environment. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, In press.
Yang, W., Tan, B., Huang, D., Rautiainen, M., Shabanov, N.V., Wang, Y., Privette, J.L., Huemmrich, K.F., Fensholt, R, Sandholt, I., Weiss, M., Nemani, R.R., Knyazikhin, Y. and Myneni, R.B. (2006). Validation of Collections 3 and 4 Terra MODIS Leaf Area Index and Fraction Vegetation Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation Products. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, In press.
Gobron, N., Pinty, B., Aussedat, O., Chen, J.M., Cohen, B., Fensholt, R., Gond, V., Hummerich, K.F., Lavergne, T., Melin, F., Privette, J.L., Sandholt, I., Tabener, M., Turner, D.P., Verstraete, M. and Widlowski, J.L. (2006). Evaluation of FAPAR products for different Canopy Radiation regimes: Methodologies and results using JRC products Derived from SeaWIFS against Ground-based Estimations. Journal of geophysical research, In press.
Fensholt, R., Sandholt, I., Rasmussen, M. S., Stisen, S. and Diouf, A. (2006). Improved Primary Production modelling in the semi-arid Sahel using MODIS vegetation and stress indices and Meteosat PAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment, In review.
Fensholt, R., Nielsen, T. T. and Stisen, S. (2006). Evaluating the quality of AVHRR Pathfinder NDVI data for the African continent using SPOT-4 Vegetation data. Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography, In review.
Fensholt, R. and Sandholt 2005. Validation of the MODIS and NOAA AVHRR vegetation indices with in situ measurements in a Semi-Arid environment. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(12), pp. 2561-2594.
Fensholt, R. and Sandholt, I. and Rasmussen, M. S. 2004. Evaluation of MODIS LAI, fAPAR and the relation between fAPAR and NDVI in a semi-arid environment using in situ measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment 91(3-4), pp.490-507.
Fensholt, R. 2004. Earth Observation of Vegetation Status in the Sahelian and Sudanian West Africa: Comparison of TERRA MODIS and NOAA AVHRR satellite data: International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(9), pp 1641-1659.
Fensholt, R. and Sandholt, I. 2003. Derivation of a Shortwave Infrared Water Stress Index from MODIS Near- and Short Wave Infrared Data in a Semi-Arid Environment. Remote Sensing of Environment 87(1), pp.111-121.
Elberling, B., Fensholt, R., Larsen, L., Petersen, A. B and Sandholt, I. 2003. Soil organic matter turnover in savanna and groundnut fields controlled by seasonal trends in soil water content. Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography - 103(2): 47-56.
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