Benjamin Brede

Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

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Benjamin Brede is a workgroup lead and remote sensing specialist with a decade of experience applying optical, thermal and lidar sensors to vegetation and forest monitoring—from cloud and thermal camera studies to UAV-borne lidar for explicit tree and biomass modeling. Now leading Integrated Sensing at GFZ, he combines academic rigor from PhD/postdoc work at Wageningen and GFZ with hands-on algorithm and pipeline development (including R-based model work on the MAgPIE agricultural model). He has a strong track record with ESA projects and building reference sites and autonomous sensing systems, and is known for rapidly prototyping practical geospatial tools—once delivering a semi-automated Radarsat-2 processing prototype in weeks. Based in Potsdam, he blends advanced sensor selection, algorithm design, and field deployment to push vegetation monitoring toward higher accuracy and operational readiness.

10 years of coding experience

7 years of employment as a software developer

Master's Degree, Geo-information Science, cum laude, Master's Degree, Geo-information Science, cum laude at Wageningen University

Bachelor's Degree, Geography, Bachelor's Degree, Geography at Philipps-Universität Marburg

German, English, Dutch

Github Skills (11)

integrate10

integrations10

data-integration10

r10

yml-configuration9

system-configuration9

custom-configuration9

configurations9

git9

version-control9

gam8

Programming languages (3)

GAMSRTeX

Github contributions (5)

magpiemodel/magpie

Jan 2017 - Jan 2023

Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment (MAgPIE) - model code

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:149 reviews, 594 commits, 63 PRs in 6 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Benjamin appears to be primarily involved in maintaining and improving the MAgPIE model's codebase. Their commits focus on merging changes, suggesting a role in integrating new features or bug fixes from other developers. They also made changes to configuration and report generation scripts, indicating a role in managing the model's output and settings. The commits involve modifications to R scripts, suggesting use of R as the primary programming language.

gardenmagpiepikagriculturegams

bodirsky/magpie

Oct 2018 - Sep 2019

Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment (MAgPIE) - model code

Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months

magpieagriculturalproduction

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