Sabine Chabrillat

Prof. Dr. Sabine Chabrillat serves as Professor for "Digital Soil Mapping" at Leibniz University Hannover and the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. She leads the Applied Hyperspectral Remote Sensing working group at GFZ and is the scientific principal investigator for the German EnMAP hyperspectral satellite mission.

• Academic affiliation: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Soil Science
• Research focus: Hyperspectral remote sensing, soil spectroscopy, soil erosion/degradation, polar ecosystems, and arid region monitoring

Her work spans multiscale analyses from laboratory measurements to satellite-based systems, with projects in Southern Africa, Brazil, the Mediterranean, and Antarctica. Recent studies include:

• EnMAP satellite validation for soil/mineral mapping
• Thermal hyperspectral analysis of heatwave impacts
• Global soil spectral grid development
• Polar snow reflectance modeling

Scientific awards include the GFZ Prize (2019), Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), and WHISPERS Best Paper (2018). She has authored >220 publications and co-chaired the IEEE P4005 working group on soil spectroscopy standards since 2020.

As a dedicated educator, she lectures in remote sensing at Leibniz University Hannover, University of Potsdam, and Free University Berlin, and mentors PhD/MSc students in soil and environmental sciences.