Humboldt University Remote Sensing Laboratory

Research Projects of the Geomatics Lab

Spatio-temporal monitoring and modeling of land changes in Albania and Kosovo

(German: Raum-zeitliche Erfassung und Modellierung von Landveränderungen in Albanien und Kosovo)

Albania and Kosovo face large and broad-scale changes in land use following the collapse of the socialist system. Little is known about the spatial patterns, the underlying causes and the impacts on the human environment system. This research in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) focuses on land change processes in Albania and Kosovo on a regional scale. Land cover changes were derived from multitemporal remote-sensing analyses of Landsat data by means of support vector machines. Additional geodata is used to analyse the dynamics in land cover and land use. Different spatio-temporal modeling techniques are applied to explore the underlying determinants of past land changes and to assess the effects of likely future pathways. Besides country-wide analyses, one focus is on the rapidly developing metropolitan region of Tirana, Albania.

Principal Investigators:
Tobia Lakes (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Daniel Müller (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO))


			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 Spatio-temporal monitoring and modeling of land changes in Albania and Kosovo (German: Raum-zeitliche Erfassung und Modellierung von Landveränderungen in Albanien und Kosovo) Albania and Kosovo face large and broad-scale changes in land use following the collapse of the socialist system. Little is known about the spatial patterns, the underlying causes and the impacts on the human environment system. This research in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) focuses on land change processes in Albania and Kosovo on a regional scale. Land cover changes were derived from multitemporal remote-sensing analyses of Landsat data by means of support vector machines. Additional geodata is used to analyse the dynamics in land cover and land use. Different spatio-temporal modeling techniques are applied to explore the underlying determinants of past land changes and to assess the effects of likely future pathways. Besides country-wide analyses, one focus is on the rapidly developing metropolitan region of Tirana, Albania. Principal Investigators: Tobia Lakes (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Daniel Müller (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO))