Department of Geography, Cambridge

Biography

2020-present: PhD student (probationary), Geography, University of Cambridge.
2018-2019: Visiting student, Department for Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT (with Prof. Dara Entekhabi).
2018: Internship, MyDataPlant and CropRadar, Kleffmann Group: Development of a Sentinel-1 based biomass product for agribusiness.
2017: Internship, Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR): Applying polarimetric modeling for an improved radar vegetation index.
2016: Internship, Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR): Global analysis of SMAP active-passive covariation

2019: MSc. Global Change Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Thesis title: Global characterization of vegetation canopy properties and their dynamics using microwave radiometry.
2016: BSc. Geography, University of Augsburg. Thesis title: Comparison of modelled and measured rainfall energy – uncertainties within the fundamental driver of soil erosion.

Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme (HDPSP), 2020-2023
Max Weber-Program (Bavarian state), 2015-2019
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), 2016-2019

Baur, M. J, Jagdhuber, T., Feldman, A. F., Chaparro, D., Piles, M., Entekhabi, D. (2021) Time-variations of zeroth-order vegetation absorption and scattering at L-band. Remote Sensing of Environment, 267, 112726.
Baur, M. J., Jagdhuber, T., Feldman, A. F., Akbar, R., Entekhabi, D. (2019): Estimation of Relative Canopy Absorption and Scattering at L-, C- and X-bands. Remote Sensing of Environment. 233, 111384.
Jagdhuber, T., Baur, M., Akbar, R., Das, N. N., Link, M., He, L., Entekhabi, D. (2019): Estimation of active-passive microwave covariation using SMAP and Sentinel-1 data. Remote Sensing of Environment 225, pp. 458-468.
Szigarski, C., Jagdhuber, T., Baur, M. J., Thiel, C., Parrens, M., Wigneron, J-P., Piles, M., Entekhabi, D. (2018): Analysis of the Radar Vegetation Index and Potential Improvements. Remote Sensing, 10 (11), 1776.
Wilken, F., Baur, M., Sommer, M., Deumilch, D., Bens, O., Fiener, P. (2018): Uncertainties in rainfall kinetic energy-intensity relations for soil erosion modelling. Catena, 171, pp. 234-244.