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You plan to focus on Earth Observation?
You plan to focus on Earth Observation?Here you find all information needed to structure your studies with a focus on Earth Observation: course descriptions, and good practice examples of theses or MAPs from previous courses.
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Brazilian Amazon - alarming deforestation and fires escalation
Brazilian Amazon - alarming deforestation and fires escalationA new study conducted in Pará sheds light on the alarming escalation of deforestation and fires in the Brazilian Amazon between 2014 and 2020. Employing quasi-experimental methods, the research examined the effects of Presidents Rousseff, Temer, and Bolsonaro on these environmental changes across various land-tenure and farm systems. The findings reveal a nearly fourfold increase in deforestation, particularly during Bolsonaro's term in undesignated areas, conservation units, and medium-sized farms. Burning expanded across all tenure types, with the most significant rise observed in agrarian settlements, conservation units, and medium to large farms. Find more out in our publication.
Drought monitoring of Central European grasslands
Drought monitoring of Central European grasslandsWe developed a generalized approach for monitoring drought impacts on grasslands with Sentinel-2 time series and regression-based unmixing models. We found severe and long-lasting drought impacts between 2017 and 2021. Drought effects on the vegetation followed general meteorological patterns but also varied with environmental and land management characteristics of grasslands. Find out more in our publication.
Updated Science Plan for EnMap online
Updated Science Plan for EnMap onlineThe Science Plan describes the scientific background, applications, and activities of the Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) imaging spectroscopy mission. The update reflects the excellent science happened since the publication of the last Science Plan in 2016. Discover the content of the Science Plan 2022 online here.
High-resolution mapping of material stocks
High-resolution mapping of material stocksA new Earth Observation Lab study maps the accumulation of human-made material stock in buildings and infrastructure over the last 33 years in Germany at high spatial resolution with present-day stock maps and remote sensing data from the Landsat Archive. We find an overall growth of stock of 13% and monitor stock growth with population decline in former East-Germany after 1990. Read the article here.
Tree species mapped with Sentinel-2 time series
Tree species mapped with Sentinel-2 time seriesWe used Sentinel-2 time series and forest inventory data to map 17 tree species in Brandenburg state, Germany. You can find out more about our approach and how environmental factors and texture metrics influence map accuracy in our paper here.