Elham Shafeian

Topics

Forest decline
Plant species interactions
Change detection using remote sensing

Curriculum vitae

2018	IUFRO Grant (The Special Program for Development of Capacities (SPDC)) for Oral presentation in the 6^th International Conference on Plants and Environmental Pollution (ICPEP-6), hold in Lucknow, India
Since 2018	PhD student at the Institute of Geography and Geoecology (KIT). Topic: Multi-scale remote sensing and dendro-chronological methods for an improved understanding of forest decline in the Zagros forest area, Iran (Prof. D. Schmidtlein, Dr. F. Fassnacht)
Since 2018	DAAD Research Grant for PhD in Germany
Since 2018	Gundishapur Grant (A Joint project between the University of Tehran and The University of Nantes)
2016	Aspirant Grant funded by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 10^th March-10^th April, 2017
2012-2014	Master of Science at the University of Tehran in Range Management and Ecology, thesis: “Preparing vegetation products map and classification of condition of Taliqan rangelands using Remote Sensing methods”, Iran (Dr. Hossein Arzani and Dr. Seyed Kazem Alavipanah)
2008-2012	Bachelor of Science at the University of Guilan in Range and Watershed Engineering, Iran, thesis: Social and economic issues in Masuleh district
2005-2008	High School Diploma: Esmat High School – Karaj, Iran

Publications

deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics
Mosig, C.; Vajna-Jehle, J.; Mahecha, M. D.; Cheng, Y.; Hartmann, H.; Montero, D.; Junttila, S.; Horion, S.; Schwenke, M. B.; Koontz, M. J.; Maulud, K. N. A.; Adu-Bredu, S.; Al-Halbouni, D.; Ali, M.; Allen, M.; Altman, J.; Amorós, L.; Angiolini, C.; Astrup, R.; Awada, H.; Barrasso, C.; Bartholomeus, H.; Beck, P. S. A.; Bozzini, A.; Braun-Wimmer, J.; Brede, B.; Breunig, F. M.; Brugnaro, S.; Buras, A.; Burchard-Levine, V.; Camarero, J. J.; Candotti, A.; Capuder, L.; Carrieri, E.; Centritto, M.; Chirici, G.; Cloutier, M.; Conciani, D. E.; Conciani, D.; Cushman, K. C. C.; Dalling, J. W.; Dao, P. D.; Dempewolf, J.; Denter, M.; Dogotari, M.; Díaz-Delgado, R.; Ecke, S.; Eichel, J.; Eltner, A.; Fabbri, A.; Fabi, M.; Faßnacht, F. E.; Ferreira, M. P.; Fischer, F. J.; Frey, J.; Frick, A.; Fuentes, J.; Ganz, S.; Garbarino, M.; García, M.; Gassilloud, M.; Gazol, A.; Gea-Izquierdo, G.; Gerberding, K.; Ghasemi, M.; Giannetti, F.; Gillan, J.; Gonzalez, R.; Gosper, C.; Greene, T.; Greinwald, K.; Grieve, S.; Große-Stoltenberg, A.; Gutierrez, J. A.; Göritz, A.; Hajek, P.; Hedding, D.; Hempel, J.; Heremans, S.; Hernández, M.; Heurich, M.; Honkavaara, E.; Höfle, B.; Jackisch, R.; Jucker, T.; Kalwij, J. M.; Kepfer-Rojas, S.; Khatri-Chhetri, P.; Kleinebecker, T.; Klemmt, H.-J.; Klouček, T.; Koivumäki, N.; Kolagani, N.; Komárek, J.; Korznikov, K.; Kraszewski, B.; Kruse, S.; Krüger, R.; Kuechly, H.; Kwong, I. H. Y.; Laliberté, E.; Langan, L.; Latifi, H.; Leal-Medina, C.; Lehmann, J. R. K.; Li, L.; Lines, E. R.; Lisiewicz, M.; Lopatin, J.; Lucieer, A.; Ludwig, A. D.; Ludwig, M.; Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, P.; Ma, Q.; Mansuy, N.; Peña, J. M.; Marino, G.; Maroschek, M.; Martín, M. P.; Martín-Benito, D.; Matham, P. K.; Mazzoni, S.; Meloni, F.; Menzel, A.; Meyer, H.; Miraki, M.; Moreno, G. M.; Moreno-Fernández, D.; Muller-Landau, H. C.; Mälicke, M.; Möhring, J.; Müllerova, J.; Naidu, S. S.; Nardi, D.; Neumeier, P.; Nita, M. D.; Näsi, R.; Oppgenoorth, L.; Orunbaev, S. Z.; Palmer, M. E.; Paul, T.; Pfenning, M.; Potts, A. J.; Prasanna, G. L.; Prober, S. M.; Puliti, S.; Pérez-Luque, A. J.; Pérez-Priego, Ó.; Pérez-Priego, O.; Reudenbach, C.; Revuelto, J.; Rivas-Torres, G.; Roberge, P.; Roggero, P. P.; Rossi, C.; Ruehr, N. K.; Ruiz-Benito, P.; Runge, C. M.; Satta, G. G. A.; Scanu, B.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Schiefer, F.; Schiller, C.; Schiller, C.; Schladebach, J.; Schmehl, M.-T.; Schmid, J.; Schmidt, T. A.; Schwarz, S.; Seidl, R.; Seifert, T.; Barba, A. S.; Shafeian, E.; Shapiro, A. C.; de Simone, L.; Sohrabi, H.; Soltani, S.; Sotomayor, L. N.; Sparrow, B. D.; Sparrow, B.; Steer, B. S. C.; Stenson, M.; Stöckigt, B.; Su, Y.; Suomalainen, J. M.; Tamudo, E.; Barbieri, M. J. T.; Tomelleri, E.; Torresani, M.; Trepekli, K.; Ullah, S.; Ullah, S.; Umlauft, J.; Vargas-Ramírez, N.; Vatandaslar, C.; Visacki, V.; Volpi, M.; Vásquez, V.; Wallis, C. I. B.; Weinstein, B. G.; Weiser, H.; Wich, S.; Ximena, T. C.; Zarco-Tejada, P. J.; Zdunic, K.; Zielewska-Büttner, K.; de Oliveira, R. A.; van Wagtendonk, L.; von Dosky, V.; Kattenborn, T.
2026. Remote Sensing of Environment, 332, 115027. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2025.115027

Unveiling the main drivers of tree decline in Zagros semi-arid forests
Shafeian, E.; Ewald, M.; Latifi, H.; Fassnacht, F. E.
2024. (R. Manso, Hrsg.) Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpae048

Forest practitioners’ requirements for remote sensing-based canopy height, wood-volume, tree species, and disturbance products
Fassnacht, F. E.; Mager, C.; Waser, L. T.; Kanjir, U.; Schäfer, J.; Buhvald, A. P.; Shafeian, E.; Schiefer, F.; Stančič, L.; Immitzer, M.; Dalponte, M.; Stereńczak, K.; Skudnik, M.
2025. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 98 (2), 233–252. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpae021

A novel linear spectral unmixing-based method for tree decline monitoring by fusing UAV-RGB and optical space-borne data
Ghasemi, M.; Latifi, H.; Shafeian, E.; Naghavi, H.; Pourhashemi, M.
2024. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 45 (4), 1079 – 1109. doi:10.1080/01431161.2024.2305630

Multi-scale remote sensing methods for an improved understanding of forest decline in the Zagros Forest area. Dissertation
Shafeian, E.
2024, Januar 15. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000167177

Detecting semi-arid forest decline using time series of Landsat data
Shafeian, E.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Latifi, H.
2023. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 56 (1), Art.-Nr. 2260549. doi:10.1080/22797254.2023.2260549

Mapping fractional woody cover in an extensive semi-arid woodland area at different spatial grains with Sentinel-2 and very high-resolution data
Shafeian, E.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Latifi, H.
2021. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 105, Art.-Nr.: 102621. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2021.102621