Rene R. Colditz

René R. Colditz (M‘08) was born in Jena, Germany, in 1979. He studied geography with minors in geology and computer science at the University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, and the University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA. He received the Diplom (M.Sc.) degree in geography and the Ph.D. degree in geography and remote sensing from the University of Würzburg, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. From 2004 to 2007, he was a Scientific Employee with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, and a member of the Remote Sensing Unit, University of Würzburg. Since 2007, he has been a Senior Scientist with the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Mexico City, Mexico. His main research interests include time-series generation and analysis as well as classification of time series for land-cover update.