Dr. Michael Nolde is a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Department for Geo-Risks and Civil Security. He is focused on the analysis of wildfire events using satellite data. He received his PhD at Kiel University / Germany in 2013, titled “Development of an automated forecasting platform for wildfire danger on the Isle of Sardinia / Italy". Later on, he held a PostDoc position at Centro Euro-Mediteraneo sui Cabiamenti Climatici in Lecce / Italy. At his current position, he is responsible for maintaining and developing automatic processing chains for extracting information from satellite data in the context of crisis information.