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"
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).