: Geography Department

Earth Observation Lab

Geography Department
Earth Observation Lab

"We advance terrestrial
Earth observation
from space"

Our focus is on developing and applying remote sensing methods to better understand global change related to land systems, adhering to FAIR principles and adopting an open data philosophy. We concentrate on mapping land cover, land use and related spatio-temporal change patterns. Applications extend from agriculture (both cropland and grassland), over forest ecosystems to urban areas. The analysis of long and dense time series from Landsat and Sentinel data is core for our research - from landscape to continental scales. Hyperspectral image analysis is a second cornerstone of the Earth Observation Lab.

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Earth Observation Lab

Earth Observation Lab | Field trip to Northern Mato Grosso

Field trip to Northern Mato Grosso

Impressions from the most recent field trip to Northern Mato Grosso, Brazil

Oct 03, 2014

Impressions from the most recent field trip to Northern Mato Grosso, Brazil. The map shows a recent acquisition by Landsat-8 (July 3rd 2014, false color composite RGB=5,6,4).
Image-01 (preview) shows typical land cover types for the area, from left to right, tall primary rainforest, lower secondary forest dominated by palm trees, and pasture in the foreground. Image-02 (preview) shows a logging deck where the timber extracted from a selective logging site (north of point#2 in the map) is stored. Image-03 (preview) shows some degraded primary forest likely due to selective logging activities. For more information see SenseCarbon & Carbiocial projects.

Find more information on our SenseCarbon website.