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Irene Marzolff is Senior Lecturer & Researcher at the Institute of Physical Geography at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. She is a remote sensing/GIS specialist who has worked on high-resolution remote sensing methods for studying land degradation and erosion since 1995, mostly using unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and has co-authored an Elsevier textbook on "Small-format Aerial Photography and UAS Imagery" (2019). She has a strong focus on semi-arid landscapes undergoing land-use changes, such as marginal dry-farming areas in Spain, agro-industrial landscapes and agroforestry systems in Morocco, and smallholder-farming areas with millet and mustard cropping in reclaimed erosional badlands of India (doi:10.1002/esp.4266). Her research within the millet network will focus on UAV and satellite mapping of the crop types and tree populations patterns in West African smallholder agroforestry systems that are currently undergoing a shift from millet staple crops to cash crop cultivation. The aim is to analyse how commercial agriculture expansion impacts on traditional millet and sorghum agroforestry systems and their related ecosystem services.
