Research Interests
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
- Soil Erosion
- UAV Surveying
- Precision Agriculture
- Spectroscopy
- Soil Moisture Modeling
Short CV
- August 2023 - to present: Postdoc, University of Tübingen
- 2023 - 2026: PhD Student, Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Thesis: “Soil erosion in agricultural landscapes in the context of dynamic changes of land use patterns and structures (DYLAMUST)”
- March 2023 - August 2023: Visiting Student, Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
- 2017 - 2019: M.Sc., Department of Water Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran.
- 2013 - 2016: B.Sc., Department of Water Science and Engineering, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Iran.
Selected Publications
- Seufferheld, K. D., Batista, P. V., Shokati, H., Scholten, T., & Fiener, P. (2026). A GLUE-based assessment of WaTEM/SEDEM for simulating soil erosion, transport, and deposition in soil conservation optimised agricultural watersheds.Soil,12(1), 301-319. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-12-301-2026
- Shokati, H., Seufferheld, K. D., Fiener, P., & Scholten, T. (2026). Rapid flood mapping from aerial imagery using fine-tuned SAM and ResNet-backboned U-Net. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,30 (3), 743-756. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-743-2026
- Khosravani, P., Kebonye, N. M., Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Shokati, H., Hu, L., & Scholten, T. (2026). Soil pH and latitude as a major predictor of C: N: P stoichiometry in Germany. Catena, 264, 109785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.109785
- Shokati, H., Mashal, M., Noroozi, A., Mirzaei, S., Mohammadi-Doqozloo, Z., Nabiollahi, K., Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Khosravani, P., Adhikari, R., Hu, L., and Scholten, T. (2025). Comparing UAV-Based Hyperspectral and Satellite-Based Multispectral Data for Soil Moisture Estimation Using Machine Learning. Water, 17, 1715. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17111715
- Shokati, H., Engelhardt, A., Seufferheld, K., Taghizadeh, R., Fiener, P., Lensch, H., and Scholten, T. (2025). Erosion-SAM: Semantic segmentation of soil erosion by water. CATENA, 254, 108954. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2025.108954.
- Hu, L., Hochschild, V., Neidhardt, H., Schultz, M., Khosravani, P., and Shokati, H. (2024). BIPE: A Bi-Layer Predictive Ensemble Framework for Forest Fire Susceptibility Mapping in Germany. Remote Sensing, 17(1), 7. doi: 10.3390/rs17010007.
- Nabiollahi, K., Kebonye, N. M., Molani, F., Tahari-Mehrjardi, M. H., Taghizadeh, R., Shokati, H. and Scholten, T. (2024). Assessment of Land Suitability Potential Using Ensemble Approaches of Advanced Multi-Criteria Decision Models and Machine Learning for Wheat Cultivation. Remote Sensing, 16(14), 2566. p. doi: 10.3390/rs16142566
- Khosravani, P., Baghernejad, M., Taghizadeh, R., Mousavi, S. R., Moosavi, A. A., Fallah Shamsi, S. R., Shokati, H., Kebonye, N. M. and Scholten, T. (2024). Assessing the Role of Environmental Covariates and Pixel Size in Soil Property Prediction: A Comparative Study of Various Areas in Southwest Iran. Land, 13(8), 1309. p. doi: 10.3390/land13081309
- Shokati, H., Mashal, M., Noroozi, A., Abkar, A.A., Mirzaei, S., Mohammadi-Doqozloo, Z., Taghizadeh, R., Khosravani, P., Nabiollahi, K., Scholten, T. (2024). Random Forest-Based Soil Moisture Estimation Using Sentinel-2, Landsat-8/9, and UAV-Based Hyperspectral Data. Remote Sensing. 16(11):1962. doi: 10.3390/rs16111962
- Shokati, H., Kouchakzadeh, M. and Fashi, F.H., 2020. Assessing reliability of rainwater harvesting systems for meeting water demands in different climatic zones of Iran. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 6(1), pp.109-114. doi: 10.1007/s40808-019-00662-3
- Shokati, H., Mashal, M., Noroozi, A.A. and Mirzaei, S., 2023. Evaluating the Accuracy of Precipitation Products Over Utah, United States, Using the Google Earth Engine Platform. Desert, 28(1), pp.145-162. doi: 10.22059/jdesert.2023.93548
- Shokati, H., Mashal, M., Noroozi, A., Mirzaei, S. and Mohammadi-Doqozloo, Z., 2023. Assessing soil moisture levels using visible UAV imagery and machine learning models. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 32, p.101076. doi: 10.1016/j.rsase.2023.101076
- Shokati, H., Kouchakzadeh, M. and Noroozi, A., 2021. Designing of Rainwater Harvesting Systems Using Drone Images. Engineering Journal, 14(48), pp.73-85. (In Persian). doi: 10.30495/wej.2021.4590
- Shokati, H., Kouchakzadeh, M. and Noroozi, A., 2021. Reliability, Optimization and Economic Analysis of the Rainwater Harvesting System from the Rooftop. Iranian Journal of Irrigation and Water Engineering. (In Persian).
- Shokati, H., Kouchakzadeh, M. and Noroozi, A.A., 2019. Urban runoff management in sustainable development and the environment. Journal of Environmental Science Studies, 4(1), pp.1100-1107. (In Persian). www.jess.ir/article_87096.html
- Sojoodi, Z., Shokati, H. and Mashal, M., 2022. Estimation of Evapotranspiration in Landscape by WUCOLS, PF and IPOS Methods. Journal of Water and Soil. (In Persian). doi: 10.22067/JSW.2022.73984.1119
- Shokati, H., Sojoodi, Z. and Mashal, M., 2022. Optimization and Feasibility Study of using Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Ardabil. Journal of Water and Soil. (In Persian). doi: 10.22067/JSW.2022.73460.1111
Conference Contributions
- Shokati, H., Seufferheld, K. D., Fiener, P., & Scholten, T. (2026). Long-Term Trends in Rainfall Erosivity Derived from a Deep Learning Reconstruction Framework (No. EGU26-1408). Copernicus Meetings.
- Seufferheld, K. D., Chalaux-Clergue, T., Woldemariam, A. D., Shokati, H., Scholten, T., & Fiener, P. (2026). Evaluating the Spatial Performance of WaTEM/SEDEM Using Multi-Source Datasets Across Scales (No. EGU26-1640). Copernicus Meetings.
- Shokati, H., Seufferheld, K. D., Fiener, P., & Scholten, T. (2025). Fine-tuning the Segment Anything Model for Automated Flood Detection in Aerial Imagery. DBG Conference, Tübingen, Germany.
- Shokati, H., Engelhardt, A., Seufferheld, K., Taghizadeh, R., Fiener, P., and Scholten, T. (2025): Automated high-resolution detection of soil erosion and deposition features in agricultural fields using the fine-tuned Segment Anything Model, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-827, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-827.
- Seufferheld, K. D., Batista, P. V. G., Shokati, H., Scholten, T., and Fiener, P. (2025): WaTEM/SEDEM’s capability in simulating watershed-scale soil conservation: Using the GLUE approach to analyse the representation of in-field processes and connectivity features along thalwegs, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-1799, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-1799.
- Shokati, H., Mashal, M., Noroozi, A., Abkar, A.A. and Scholten, T. (2024). Comparison Of Hyperspectral And Multispectral Remote Sensing For Improved Surface Soil Moisture Estimation. 13th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy, València, Spain.
- Nabiollahi, K., Molani, F., Taghizadeh, R., Tahari-Mehrjardi, M. H., Shokati, H., Khosravani, P., Kebonye, N. M and Scholten, T. (2024). Comparison of advanced multicriteria decision and FAO models for land suitability assessment. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria.
- Shokati, H., Kouchakzadeh, M. and Noroozi, A.A., 2019. Determining the Number and Location of Tanks for Rainwater Harvesting Systems using Drone Images. 9th National Conference on Watershed and Management of Water and Soil Resources.
- Shokati, H., Kouchakzadeh, M. and Noroozi, A.A., 2019. Design and Optimization of Rainwater Harvesting Systems. 9th National Conference on Watershed and Management of Water and Soil Resources.
- Shokati, H., Kouchakzadeh, M., Noroozi, A.A. and Osouli, S., 2019. Assessing performance of rainwater harvesting systems in Karaj. 7th National Conference on rainwater catchment systems.