Prof. Dr. Natascha Oppelt received her MS in Physical Geography from the University of Munich in 1998, specializing in airborne videography. On graduation, she spent time studying mesoscale soil moisture patterns using radar data. After her PhD in the field of airborne imaging spectroscopy, she worked at the Dept. for Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Munich. During her postdoctoral time, she specialized in multi-angular remote sensing and the combination of physical-based model approaches with remote sensing data. Additionally, she worked as the general manager of a spin-off company of the university. Since 2008, she has been a professor at Kiel University (Germany) and is head of the "Remote Sensing and Environmental Modeling" group. Her main research interests are in the development of methods for process-oriented and spatially differentiated environmental observation with the aid of various measurement techniques to analyze changes in the environment at various scales across the globe.