Johannes is Associate Professor 'radar remote sensing' at the Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University. He obtained his PhD (2015) from Wageningen University and his MSc (2011) from the University of Jena. 

He utilizes radar remote sensing to unravel human activities in and dynamics of forest ecosystems at regional to global scales, with a strong focus on multi-sensor methods and near real-time change monitoring. He leads the radar remote sensing group and teaches radar remote sensing in the Master Geo-Information Science. A list of publications can be found via Google Scholar or ResearchGate.

Radar remote sensing group: http://radar-rs.wur.nl

RADD forest disturbance alert: http://radd-alert.wur.nl

• Forest-Carbon-Crime: Mapping mapping near-future illegal forest activities and carbon loss (NWO, 2023 - 2026)
• Forwards: European observatory of climate change impacts and demonstration network of climate smart restoration pilots (HEurope, 2023 - 2027)
• Open-Earth-Monitor: Building an open-source cyber-infrastructure to accelerate the uptake of environmental information and help build user communities at European and global levels (HEurope, 2022 - 2027)
• WWF Forest Foresight: Early Warning System for avoiding deforestation (WWF-WUR, 2022 - 2024)
• MINERVA: Building a dutch knowledge network on MIcrowaves for a New Era of Remote sensing of Vegetation for Agricultural monitoring (NWO PIPP 2021 - 2025)
• RADD tropics: Radar-based assessment of tropical forest change dynamics (WRI-Global Forest Watch project funded by NICFI and SilvaCarbon, 2020 - 2023)
• Big-EO-Analytics: Increasing capacity to combine optical and RADAR Sentinel satellite data for rapid change detection (NWO-STW project, 2018 - 2022)
• [completed] Mooc4Land: Developing the massive open online course 'Land in Focus - Basics of Remote Sensing' (ESA project, 2019 - 2022)
• [completed] RADD palm oil: Sentinel-1-based radar deforestation alerts for Indonesia and Malaysia, including a land-scape initiative with the ten major oil palm producers (WRI-Global Forest Watch project, 2019 - 2021)
• [completed] openEO: A Common, Open Source Interface between Earth Observation Data Infrastructures and Front-End Applications (H2020 project, 2017 - 2020) 
• [completed] BACI: Towards a biosphere atmosphere change index (H2020 project, 2015 - 2019)
• [completed] ReCover: Science based remote sensing services to support REDD and sustainable forest management in tropical region (FP7 project, 2010 - 2013)

• GRS-20306 Remote Sensing: Lecturer - Radar remote sensing
• GRS-32306 Advanced Earth Observation: Course coordinator; Lecturer - Radar remote sensing of forest dynamics
• GRS704XX Internship: Course coordinator