Projects

PD Dr. Sören Hese
  • environMENTAL ProjectExterner Link 2022-2027: Reducing the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health , 10 Mio Euro EU project under lead of Charite Berlin.
  • 3D-Park Project: since 2020 - monitoring deciduous tree degradation in the historic park regions in Berlin/Potsdam using multitemporal and -spectral UAV Data.   
  • Wild Boar Maize Field Damage Mapping in Thueringia using precision mapping with Phantom 4 RTK multitemporal height data (2019).   
  • Forest Cover Change Mapping in Thueringia using Sentinel-2 L2A Data - a project in cooperation with "Thüringen Forst" (2019 & 2020)
  • Hainich National Park Beech Tree Decline Monitoring: multitemporal UAV point cloud and multispectral data capture, Sentinel-2 change detection and CIR airborne damage assessment in the Hainich National Park beech forests (2019-2022) 
  • JCL (Jena Copter Laboratories) - research and education with microcopter fligh planning and automatic workflow development.

Finished Projects

  • SIBERIA-II: (Multisensor Concepts for Greenhouse Gas Accounting in Northern Eurasia)(2002-2004), international project consortium co-financed by EU FP5.
  • CARBON-3D: (national EO mission concept) for global 3-dimensional mapping of biomass in cooperation with Jena Optronik, University of Wales (UK), University of Maryland (California)(2004)
  • NORTH: (FP6 proposal) observatories of change in northern Eurasia and Northern America (2005),
  • OSCaR (OilSpill Contamination Mapping in Russia)  (OBIA 2006 Poster) 2006,
  • FIRESCAR (high resolution firescar object mapping in Siberia) 2007,
  • SIB-ESS-C (Siberian Earth System Science Cluster) (since 2006),
  • AGRISAR HyMAP field campaign (2006),
  • ENVILAND-2: Synergistic usage of SAR and optical data , in cooperation with University Bonn, Jena Optronik, TU Ilmenau et al. (2008-2010)
  • Bark Beetle Forest Damage Mapping, spectral analysis and hyperspectral mapping: n cooperation with "Thüringer Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Naturschutz und Umwelt" as part of the airborne HyMAP HyEurope 2008 campaign.
  • ESAs Data User Element Permafrost (DUE-PF): panarctic vegetation and thermokarst lake change mapping with VHR data (2009-2011), in cooperation with AWI Potsdam, IPF University Wien, GAMMA Remote Sensing (Switzerland) and University of Waterloo (Canada) - financed by ESA.
  • RESA Rapideye Science Archive Project for the DUE PF Project: Project 275 "High Resolution Water Body and Vegetation Mapping for Permafrost Degradation Modelling as Part of ESAs DUE Permafrost Project" (2009-2011).
  • Urban Growth Modelling in Brasilia using the SLEUTH cellular growth model: in cooperation with UFZ Leipzig (2009).
  • Jena Earth science Spectrometer Laboratory project and spectra database setup with SPECCIO (2010).
  • Post-Graduate Programme "Image Analysis, Interpretation and Recognition" - co-funded by the  Thuringian "ProExzellenz" Initiative in cooperation with TU Ilmenau, and Fraunhofer IOF Jena (2009-2013). Mapping of urban landuse structure in multisensor high resolution Earth observation data.
  • GIONET (2011 - 2014 ) PhD Fellows in Earth Observation to the Marie Curie Initial Training Network "GMES Initial Operations - Network for EO Research Training"
  • Habilitation - (german post doctoral lecturer qualification):  "Spatial High Resolution Earth Observation Data for Land Surface Monitoring - Object-based Concepts and Methods"Externer Link
  • RESA Rapideye Science Archive ProjectExterner Link OILSPILL: Project No. 472 - multitemporal large scale oilspill mapping in West Siberia (2011 - 2013).
  • RESA Rapideye Science Archive ProjectExterner Link SENDAI: Project No. 483 - Change Signature Analysis for Rapid Mapping Concepts of Tsunami Flooded Coastal Areas (2011 - 2015).
  • KULUNDA - How to prevent the next "Global Dust Bowl" - Ecological and Economic Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the Russian Steppes - A Potential Solution to Climate Change. SP5: KULUNDA Geodatabase, Landuse Change and Land Degradation Classification (BMBF) (2011 - 2016).