Prof. Dr. Martin Herold

Prof. Dr. Martin Herold is the chair for geoinformation science and remote sensing at Wageningen University. He holds a PhD from the University of California-Santa Barbara (2004) and completed a habilitation (second PhD, 2009) on a topic on operational global land cover observation and assessments. He leads the land cover team Global Observations of Forest Cover and Land Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) and coordinates the R&D component of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI). Martin is an expert the development and implementation of large-area, tropical land change and forest monitoring systems in the context of UNFCCC and the Sustainable Development Goals. He has published more than 150 scientific papers on this topic, enjoys supervising PhD students and supporting capacity development initiatives for moving innovative satellite and ground-based approaches into practice. He recently has been very busy as lead author of the 2019 IPCC Good Practice Guidelines refinement; incl. providing improved Tier 1 estimates for tropical forest biomass and regrowth.