Geomatics Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Research Projects of the Geomatics Lab

Urban environmental monitoring with high resolution remote sensing data
(Städtisches Umweltmonitoring mit spektral und geometrisch hoch auflösenden Fernerkundungsdaten)

The physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change, also known as urbanization, is one of the most powerful and irreversible processes by which humans modify the Earth's surface. Optical remote sensing is one main source of earth observation products which help to better understand this dynamic process and its consequences on the urban and neighbouring ecosystems.

The scientific focus of this project is to characterize the city of Berlin with imaging spectroscopy data. A special emphasis is put on the spatial distribution and the state of urban vegetation along the urban to peri-urban gradient. Vegetation is a key natural component within the urban ecosystem providing numerous regulating services, e.g., for urban climate. The project aims at developing a methodology to quantify vegetation along with built-up and impervious areas in universal and transferable approaches that will be needed once space-borne data is available. The project is closely linked to the activities of the EnMAP Core Science Team with regard to ecosystem transition and therefore investigates this gradient at various scales.


			Projects
	overview Research Projects of the Geomatics Lab: Data integration and data mining DHAKA-INNOVATE DeSurvey EnMAP-Box EnMAP Core Science Team Environmental justice Graduate School on Urban Ecology Land changes in Albania and Kosovo Linking urban land use characteristics and mental illness Metrik Modeling cropland dynamics in Romania Modeling with domain-specific languages Risk model of Dengue Disease in Malaysia Social and health characteristics in urban areas Urban Environmental Monitoring Urban Environmental Monitoring II Urban growth in Greater Tirana Research Collaborations: ESF Exploratory Workshop: EuCaRe EARSeL workshop Post-USSR land cover Rapid urbanization Other Projects of the Geomatics Lab: Geodateninfrastruktur imageSVM		Research Projects of the Geomatics Lab Urban environmental monitoring with high resolution remote sensing data (Städtisches Umweltmonitoring mit spektral und geometrisch hoch auflösenden Fernerkundungsdaten) The physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change, also known as urbanization, is one of the most powerful and irreversible processes by which humans modify the Earth's surface. Optical remote sensing is one main source of earth observation products which help to better understand this dynamic process and its consequences on the urban and neighbouring ecosystems. The scientific focus of this project is to characterize the city of Berlin with imaging spectroscopy data. A special emphasis is put on the spatial distribution and the state of urban vegetation along the urban to peri-urban gradient. Vegetation is a key natural component within the urban ecosystem providing numerous regulating services, e.g., for urban climate. The project aims at developing a methodology to quantify vegetation along with built-up and impervious areas in universal and transferable approaches that will be needed once space-borne data is available. The project is closely linked to the activities of the EnMAP Core Science Team with regard to ecosystem transition and therefore investigates this gradient at various scales. (c) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Principal Investigator: Patrick Hostert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Project Investigators: Sebastian van der Linden (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Akpona Okujeni (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Maria Cierpinski (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)