Archive
New website - interviews with members and alumni of the Geography Department....
Geoland
Watch the 2-minute feature at rbb on our involvement in Copernicus...
German Geography Congress (DKG), 1-6 Oct. 2015, attracted over 2,200 participants
Lecture by Curtis Woodcock from Boston University
Cornelius Senf on forest disturbance regimes by insects in Remote Sensing of Environment
The EnMAP Science Advisory Group meeting took place at Humboldt-University on 8-9 Oct 2015.
Three new papers related to the EnMAP mission...
All papers are published in a special issue of Remote Sensing on "The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) Mission: Preparing for Its Scientific Exploitation".
Paper on "Long-term deforestation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon—Uncovering historic frontier development along the Cuiabá–Santarém highway"
Hannes Müller (Doctoral researcher), Patrick Griffiths (Postdoc) and Patrick Hostert (Chair of the Geomatics Lab) have used image compositing to detect annual deforestation information from 1985-2012 along the BR-163 highway in the Brazilian Amazon. For the first time, they show historic deforestation processes in this highly dynamic deforestation frontier and discuss their findings in context of a complex socio-economic and political framework.
Paper on mapping beta-diversity from space by Pedro J. Leitão et.al. just published online...
in Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Early View): The publishers used Sparse Generalised Dissimilarity Modelling (SGDM) for analysing high-dimensional data to map beta divesity from space.
Paper on land use intensity trajectories on Amazonian pastures published by four of our lab members...
Philippe Rufin, Hannes Müller, Dirk Pflugmacher and Patrick Hostert have published their research on land use intensity in the pastoral land use systems of the Amazon in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
Paper regarding feature clustering of high dimensional feature spaces and subsequent ranking of the features published...
New paper in Remote Sensing of Environment by Akpona Okujeni et al.
on "Extending the vegetation–impervious–soil model using simulated EnMAP data and machine learning".
New paper by Schierhorn, F. et al.
The paper is written together with our guest scientist PD Dr. Daniel Müller and other authors. It will be published in Global Food Security (in press).
Congratulations to two doctoral researchers of the lab
The papers' of Cornelius Senf and Hannes Müller have been accepted for publication with Remote Sensing of Environment.
Field trip to Northern Mato Grosso
Impressions from the most recent field trip to Northern Mato Grosso, Brazil
New paper in Remote Sensing by doctoral researcher Akpona Okujeni
We evaluate the use of five different advanced regression techniques for quantitative mapping of urban land cover from HyMap data at 3.6 and 9 m...
New paper in Remote Sensing of Environment
This paper provides background on Landsat 8 capabilities and the Landsat Science Team research priorities...
New paper published in Remote Sensing on "Estimating Fractional Shrub Cover Using Simulated EnMAP Data: a Comparison of Three Machine Learning Regression Techniques" by Marcel Schwieder et. al.
In this research we used simulated hyperspectral EnMAP data for sub-pixel mapping of shrub cover in southern Portugal. Therefore, we compared the prediction performance of Support Vector Regression, Random Forest Regression and Partial Least Squares Regression...
New paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Environment
In this review paper, it is emphasized how the open Landsat archive and time series analyses based on fine-scale satellite data will improve addressing ecological core concepts...
Review of an extensive scientific exchange...
156 researchers from 32 countries and all continents discussed upcoming opportunities and challenges at the beginning of this new remote sensing era during the 5th workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Land Use and Land Cover. The workshop was jointly organized between the EARSeL SIG and NASA’s LCLUC Science Team at the Department of Geography of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, on March 17-18, 2014.