Insa Otte

Dr. Insa Otte is a Research Fellow at the University of Würzburg, affiliated with the Institute of Geography and Geology under the Faculty of Philosophy. Her work focuses on datacubes, climate change, and spatio-temporal analysis in alpine and tropical ecosystems.

• PhD: 2017, University of Marburg — "Global Climate Change vs. Local Land-Use Change and its Impact on Atmospheric Water Input at Mt. Kilimanjaro"
• Diploma: 2012, University of Marburg — "Nutrient Input in South Ecuadorian Rainforests"

Her research spans East and Southern Africa, analyzing precipitation isotopes, extreme weather, and ecosystem responses through GIS and remote sensing. She contributes to agricultural decision support systems and invasive species modeling like Lantana camara in savannahs.

Current projects integrate Earth observation datacubes for climate adaptation in West Africa. Her work combines satellite data (Landsat, Sentinel) with ground observations to study vegetation dynamics and land degradation in tropical mountains and savannahs.