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2. Charakterisierung der kurzperiodischen Bewegung des Ekström-Eisschelfs im Bereich der Aufsetzzone mit Hilfe von GNSS-Messungen
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Scheinert, Mirko, Fromm, Tanja, Horwath, Martin, Technische Universität Dresden, Heidrich-Meisner, Karl, Scheinert, Mirko, Fromm, Tanja, Horwath, Martin, Technische Universität Dresden, and Heidrich-Meisner, Karl
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Gezeitenbewegungen auf Eisschelfen werden schon seit den 90er-Jahren mit globalen Navigationssatellitensystemen (GNSS) gemessen. Kürzlich wurden an der Neumayer-Station III auf dem Ekström-Eisschelf mit Seismologie und GNSS unerwartet große drittel- und vierteltägige Gezeitensignale in der horizontalen Bewegung beobachtet. Es wurde die Hypothese aufgestellt, dass diese hochfrequenten Gezeitensignale ihren Ursprung an der Aufsetzzone des Ekström-Eisschelfs haben. Deshalb wurden im Laufe der letzten zwei Jahre weitere seismologische und GNSS-Messungen an der Aufsetzzone durchgeführt. Diese Arbeit verfolgt die Forschungsfragen, mit welcher Genauigkeit epochenweise geschätzte Koordinaten der GNSS-Messungen an der Aufsetzzone bestimmt werden können und welche Gezeitensignale signifikant auf geophysikalische oder glaziologische Prozesse zurückzuführen sind. Dafür wurden sowohl mit den Grundgestein verbundene GNSS-Stationen als auch die GNSS-Stationen an der Aufsetzzone mit der Bernese GNSS Software ausgewertet. Die stationären mit dem Grundgestein verbundenen GNSS-Stationen wurden dabei zur Abschätzung der erreichbaren Genauigkeit genutzt und als Referenzstation für die differentielle GNSS-Auswertung verwendet. Die Koordinatenzeitreihen wurden anschließend im Zeit- sowie Frequenzbereich analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass mit differentiellem GNSS kinematische Koordinaten in Nordrichtung auf 6,0 mm, in Ostrichtung auf 5,4 mm und vertikal auf 17,7 mm genau bestimmt werden können. Dabei handelt es sich aber um eine Genauigkeit zu einem zeitlichen Mittel. Die absolute Position wird eventuell weniger genau bestimmt. Die Signifikanz geophysikalischer und glaziologischer Signale ist abhängig vom Messrauschen in den Zeitreihen. Die dadurch entstehenden Unsicherheiten konnten in dieser Arbeit akkurat abgeschätzt werden. Zusätzlich wird die Signifikanz einzelner Signale stark von Artefakten aus den GNSS-Orbits beeinflusst. Konkret betrifft das Frequenzen, die nahe den ganzzahli
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3. Progressive Model-Driven Approach for 3D Modeling of Indoor Spaces
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Abdollahi, Ali, Arefi, Hossein, Malihi, Shirin, and Maboudi, Mehdi
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Veröffentlichung der TU Braunschweig ,ddc:52 ,Publikationsfonds der TU Braunschweig ,3D indoor modeling -- 3D reconstruction -- model-driven -- point cloud -- laser scanning -- BIM ,ddc:526 ,Article ,ddc:5 - Abstract
This paper focuses on the 3D modeling of the interior spaces of buildings. Three-dimensional point clouds from laser scanners can be considered the most widely used data for 3D indoor modeling. Therefore, the walls, ceiling and floor are extracted as the main structural fabric and reconstructed. In this paper, a method is presented to tackle the problems related to the data including obstruction, clutter and noise. This method reconstructs indoor space in a model-driven approach using watertight predefined models. Employing the two-step implementation of this process, the algorithm is able to model non-rectangular spaces with an even number of sides. Afterwards, an “improvement” process increases the level of details by modeling the intrusion and protrusion of the model. The 3D model is formed by extrusion from 2D to 3D. The proposed model-driven algorithm is evaluated with four benchmark real-world datasets. The efficacy of the proposed method is proved by the range of [77%, 95%], [85%, 97%] and [1.7 cm, 2.4 cm] values of completeness, correctness and geometric accuracy, respectively.
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4. Intelligent solutions for supporting decision-making processes in road management: A general framework accounting for environment, road serviceability, and user’s safety
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Fiorentini, Nicholas, Gerke, Markus, and Losa, Massimo
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Geografisches Informationssystem (GIS) ,Unfallvorhersagemodelle ,Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) ,Accident Prediction Models ,Crash Modification Factors ,Road Safety ,Straßenüberwachung und -management ,Road Monitoring and Management ,Unfallveränderungsfaktoren ,doctoral thesis ,Laser Profiler ,Machine Learning Algorithms ,Non-Destructive Techniques (NDTs) ,interferometrisches Radar mit synthetischer Apertur (InSAR) ,ddc:5 ,Fallgewichtsdeflektometer (FWD) ,Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) ,Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) ,Road Monitoring and Management -- Geographic Information System (GIS) -- Non-Destructive Techniques (NDTs) -- Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) -- Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) -- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) -- Laser Profiler -- Road Safety -- Accident Prediction Models -- Crash Modification Factors -- Machine Learning Algorithms -- Statistical Analysis -- Straßenüberwachung und -management -- Geografisches Informationssystem (GIS) -- zerstörungsfreie Techniken (NDTs) -- interferometrisches Radar mit synthetischer Apertur (InSAR) -- Fallgewichtsdeflektometer (FWD) -- bodendurchdringendes Radar (GPR) -- Straßensicherheit -- Unfallvorhersagemodelle -- Unfallveränderungsfaktoren -- Algorithmen für maschinelles Lernen -- statistische Analyse ,Straßensicherheit ,statistische Analyse ,Algorithmen für maschinelles Lernen ,Statistical Analysis ,bodendurchdringendes Radar (GPR) ,ddc:52 ,Geographic Information System (GIS) ,zerstörungsfreie Techniken (NDTs) ,ddc:526 - Abstract
This Ph.D. dissertation focuses on optimizing automated decision-making processes involving critical aspects of road management tasks. Specifically, the research aims to define and implement specific strategies for supplying support to decision-makers considering two leading elements: road maintenance and road safety. We propose some novel applications based on the integrated use of high-performance Non-Destructive Techniques (NDTs) and Geographical Information Systems (GISs) in order to obtain a “fully sensed” infrastructure, creating a multi-scale database concerning structural, geometrical, functional, social, and environmental characteristics. The environmental aspect is essential since climate change phenomena and extreme natural events are increasingly linked with infrastructure damage and serviceability; nonetheless, current Pavement Management Systems (PMSs) commonly rely solely on road pavement structural characteristics and surface functional performance. The high amount of collected data serves as input for calibrating different data-driven approaches, such as Machine Learning Algorithms (MLAs) and statistical regressions. Considering the aspect of road monitoring and maintenance, such models allow identifying the environmental factors that have the most significant impact on road damage and serviceability, as well as recognizing road sites with critical health conditions that need to be restored. Moreover, the calibrated MLAs enable decision-makers to determine the road maintenance interventions with higher priority. Considering road safety, the calibrated MLAs allow identifying the sites where serious road crashes can be triggered and estimating the crash count in a specified time frame. Moreover, it is possible to recognize infrastructure-related factors that significantly impact crash likelihood. Road authorities may consider the outcomes of the dissertation as a novel approach for drafting appropriate guidelines and defining more objective management programs., Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit der Optimierung von automatisierten Entscheidungsprozessen, die kritische Aspekte von Straßenmanagementaufgaben betreffen. Konkret zielt die Forschung darauf ab, spezifische Strategien zur Unterstützung von Entscheidungsträgern zu definieren und zu implementieren, wobei zwei wichtige Elemente berücksichtigt werden: Straßenerhaltung und Straßensicherheit. Wir schlagen einige neuartige Anwendungen vor, die auf dem integrierten Einsatz von leistungsstarken zerstörungsfreien Techniken (NDT) und Geografischen Informationssystemen (GIS) basieren, um eine vollständig erfasste Infrastruktur zu erhalten und eine mehrstufige Datenbank mit strukturellen, geometrischen, funktionalen, sozialen und umweltbezogenen Merkmalen zu erstellen. Der Umweltaspekt ist von entscheidender Bedeutung, da Phänomene des Klimawandels und extreme Naturereignisse zunehmend mit Schäden an der Infrastruktur und deren Gebrauchstauglichkeit in Verbindung gebracht werden; dennoch stützen sich die derzeitigen Systeme zum Management des Straßenbelags (PMS) in der Regel nur auf die strukturellen Merkmale des Straßenbelags und die funktionale Leistung der Oberfläche. Die große Menge an gesammelten Daten dient als Eingabe für die Kalibrierung verschiedener datengetriebener Ansätze, wie z. B. Algorithmen für maschinelles Lernen (MLA) und statistische Regressionen. Unter dem Aspekt der Straßenüberwachung und -instandhaltung ermöglichen solche Modelle die Identifizierung der Umweltfaktoren, die sich am stärksten auf die Straßenschäden und die Gebrauchstauglichkeit auswirken, sowie die Erkennung von Straßenstandorten mit kritischem Zustand, die saniert werden müssen. Darüber hinaus ermöglichen die kalibrierten MLAs den Entscheidungsträgern, die Straßeninstandhaltungsmaßnahmen mit höherer Priorität zu bestimmen. Im Hinblick auf die Straßenverkehrssicherheit ermöglichen die kalibrierten MLAs die Identifizierung von Stellen, an denen es zu schweren Verkehrsunfällen kommen kann. Darüber hinaus ist es möglich, infrastrukturbezogene Faktoren zu erkennen, die die Unfallwahrscheinlichkeit erheblich beeinflussen. Straßenverkehrsbehörden können die Ergebnisse der Dissertation als neuen Ansatz für die Ausarbeitung geeigneter Richtlinien und die Definition objektiverer Managementprogramme betrachten.
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5. Integrating random forest and crop modeling improves the crop yield prediction of winter wheat and oil seed rape
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Maninder Singh Dhillon, Thorsten Dahms, Carina Kuebert-Flock, Thomas Rummler, Joel Arnault, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, and Tobias Ullmann
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The fast and accurate yield estimates with the increasing availability and variety of global satellite products and the rapid development of new algorithms remain a goal for precision agriculture and food security. However, the consistency and reliability of suitable methodologies that provide accurate crop yield outcomes still need to be explored. The study investigates the coupling of crop modeling and machine learning (ML) to improve the yield prediction of winter wheat (WW) and oil seed rape (OSR) and provides examples for the Free State of Bavaria (70,550 km2), Germany, in 2019. The main objectives are to find whether a coupling approach [Light Use Efficiency (LUE) + Random Forest (RF)] would result in better and more accurate yield predictions compared to results provided with other models not using the LUE. Four different RF models [RF1 (input: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)), RF2 (input: climate variables), RF3 (input: NDVI + climate variables), RF4 (input: LUE generated biomass + climate variables)], and one semi-empiric LUE model were designed with different input requirements to find the best predictors of crop monitoring. The results indicate that the individual use of the NDVI (in RF1) and the climate variables (in RF2) could not be the most accurate, reliable, and precise solution for crop monitoring; however, their combined use (in RF3) resulted in higher accuracies. Notably, the study suggested the coupling of the LUE model variables to the RF4 model can reduce the relative root mean square error (RRMSE) from −8% (WW) and −1.6% (OSR) and increase the R2 by 14.3% (for both WW and OSR), compared to results just relying on LUE. Moreover, the research compares models yield outputs by inputting three different spatial inputs: Sentinel-2(S)-MOD13Q1 (10 m), Landsat (L)-MOD13Q1 (30 m), and MOD13Q1 (MODIS) (250 m). The S-MOD13Q1 data has relatively improved the performance of models with higher mean R2 [0.80 (WW), 0.69 (OSR)], and lower RRMSE (%) (9.18, 10.21) compared to L-MOD13Q1 (30 m) and MOD13Q1 (250 m). Satellite-based crop biomass, solar radiation, and temperature are found to be the most influential variables in the yield prediction of both crops.
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6. Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry
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Balidakis, Kyriakos, Sulzbach, Roman, Shihora, Linus, Dahle, Christoph, Dill, Robert, Dobslaw, Henryk, and 1 Department 1: Geodesy GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam Germany
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Global and Planetary Change ,de‐aliasing ,ocean tides ,atmospheric forcing ,de-aliasing ,ddc:526 ,atmospheric tides ,500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental Chemistry ,ERA5 ,GRACE-FO ,GRACE‐FO - Abstract
To mitigate temporal aliasing effects in monthly mean global gravity fields from the GRACE and GRACE‐FO satellite tandem missions, both tidal and non‐tidal background models describing high‐frequency mass variability in atmosphere and oceans are needed. To quantify tides in the atmosphere, we exploit the higher spatial (31 km) and temporal (1 hr) resolution provided by the latest atmospheric ECMWF reanalysis, ERA5. The oceanic response to atmospheric tides is subsequently modeled with the general ocean circulation model MPIOM (in a recently revised TP10L40 configuration that includes the feedback of self‐attraction and loading to the momentum equations and has an improved bathymetry around Antarctica) as well as the shallow water model TiME (employing a much higher spatial resolution and more elaborate tidal dissipation than MPIOM). Both ocean models consider jointly the effects of atmospheric pressure variations and surface wind stress. We present the characteristics of 16 waves beating at frequencies in the 1–6 cpd band and find that TiME typically outperforms the corresponding results from MPIOM and also FES2014b as measured from comparisons with tide gauge data. Moreover, we note improvements in GRACE‐FO laser ranging interferometer range‐acceleration pre‐fit residuals when employing the ocean tide solutions from TiME, in particular, for the S1 spectral line with most notable improvements around Australia, India, and the northern part of South America., Plain Language Summary: In addition to many rather slow processes such as the melting of glaciers, rapid mass redistribution related to the weather also measurably affect the Earth's gravity field. The ability of monitoring liquid freshwater changes within the Earth system from the satellite gravity missions GRACE (2002–2017) and GRACE‐FO (since 2018) relies on accurate background models of mass variability in atmosphere and oceans for both tidal and non‐tidal processes. Atmospheric tides are primarily excited in the middle atmosphere by solar energy absorption at periods of 24 hr and its overtones. We find additional tidal signatures in the atmosphere excited by periodic deformations of both crust and sea‐surface of the Earth. We thus introduce here a new data set for the atmospheric tides and their corresponding oceanic response that features both more waves and higher accuracy than other background models previously used for the processing of GRACE and GRACE‐FO satellite gravimetry data., Key Points: Sixteen relevant tidal lines identified in hourly data from ERA5 atmospheric reanalysis. Dedicated simulations with a high‐resolution global hydrodynamic model to simulate ocean tides with atmospheric influence. New tidal models reduce pre‐fit residuals in GRACE‐FO Laser Ranging Interferometer data., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, https://pypi.org/project/cdsapi/, https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/models/mpi-esm/mpiom, https://doi.org/10.5067/graod-1bg06
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7. Modelling Railways in the Context of Interoperable Geospatial Data
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Corongiu, Manuela, Gerke, Markus, and Tucci, Grazia
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doctoral thesis ,Geospatial, Information, Database, Railways, Interoperability, 3D, BIM, GIS, Multisource, Multiresolution ,ddc:6 ,ddc:52 ,ddc:62 ,ddc:526 ,ddc:625 ,ddc:5 - Abstract
In geospatial information, the interoperability term must be defined at different levels to fully consider the design of complex spatial infrastructures: sematic, schematic, syntax, and, above all, on processes and steps required to be shared in a common framework. The interoperability issue is the keystone of the research topic and is analysed through different aspects and points of view, with a focus on three relevant aspects. First of all, the 3D information: from the cartographic point of view (2.5D) to fully 3D models. Then, the link between reference geoinformation and geospatial thematic applications applied in the context of railway infrastructures. Finally, multi-source information in an integrated spatial database is analysed in management, validation, and update over time. The proposed approach starts from the reference data based on 3D geotopographic information. The research aims to devise a prototype process of a 3D data model able to describe firstly geospatial databases derived from cartography maps, then a spatial model shareable among different territorial applications and analysis. 3D city models and Building Information Model (BIM) connection has been considered. The case study refers to railway infrastructure contents. Consequently, the research objectives touch the following aspects: the evolution of base cartography toward spatial databases, the connection between a 3D geospatial database and a 3D city modelling, the connection between 3D city modelling and BIM, the connection between geo- reference and geo-thematic applications in the context of railways, the role of point clouds data within spatial databases, and the multi-source geospatial information management. To summarise, the thesis focuses on outlining a road map to keep interoperability using geographical standards and formal steps. Each step runs as a liaison point between different spatial data applications. Independence from technological platforms or application formats has been one of the mandatory requirements., Bei Geoinformationen muss der Interoperabilitätsbegriff auf verschiedenen Ebenen definiert werden, um die Gestaltung komplexer räumlicher Infrastrukturen umfassend zu berücksichtigen: sematisch, schematisch, Syntax und vor allem über Prozesse und Schritte, die in einem gemeinsamen Rahmen geteilt werden müssen. Die Interoperabilitätsfrage ist der Grundpfeiler des Forschungsthemas und wird unter verschiedenen Aspekten und Sichtweisen analysiert, wobei der Fokus auf drei relevanten Aspekten liegt. Zunächst die 3D-Informationen: aus kartografischer Sicht (2,5D) bis hin zu vollständigen 3D-Modellen. Dann die Verbindung zwischen Referenzgeoinformationen und raumbezogenen thematischen Anwendungen, die im Kontext von Eisenbahninfrastrukturen angewendet werden. Schließlich werden Informationen aus mehreren Quellen in einer integrierten räumlichen Datenbank bei der Verwaltung, Validierung und Aktualisierung im Laufe der Zeit analysiert. Der vorgeschlagene Ansatz geht von den Referenzdaten aus, die auf geotopographischen 3D-Informationen basieren. Die Forschung zielt darauf ab, einen prototypischen Prozess eines 3D-Datenmodells zu entwickeln, das in der Lage ist, zunächst aus kartografischen Karten abgeleitete Geodatenbanken und dann ein räumliches Modell zu beschreiben, das von verschiedenen territorialen Anwendungen und Analysen geteilt werden kann. 3D-Stadtmodelle und die Anbindung von Building Information Models (BIM) wurden in Betracht gezogen. Die Fallstudie bezieht sich auf die Inhalte der Eisenbahninfrastruktur. Die Forschungsziele berühren daher folgende Aspekte: die Entwicklung der Basiskartographie hin zu räumlichen Datenbanken, die Verbindung zwischen einer 3D-Geodatendatenbank und einer 3D-Stadtmodellierung, die Verbindung zwischen 3D-Stadtmodellierung und BIM, die Verbindung zwischen Georeferenz und Geo- thematische Anwendungen im Eisenbahnkontext, die Rolle von Punktwolkendaten in räumlichen Datenbanken und das Multi-Source Geoinformationsmanagement. Zusammenfassend konzentriert sich die Dissertation darauf, eine Roadmap zu skizzieren, um die Interoperabilität mit geografischen Standards und formalen Schritten aufrechtzuerhalten. Jeder Schritt wird als Verbindungspunkt zwischen verschiedenen Geodatenanwendungen ausgeführt. Die Unabhängigkeit von technologischen Plattformen oder Anwendungsformaten war eine der zwingenden Anforderungen.
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8. Preface: Special issue 'Geoarchaeology of the Nile Delta'
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Meister, Julia, Lange-Athinodorou, Eva, and Ullmann, Tobias
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No abstract available.
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- 2021
9. Evaluierung der Einsatzfähigkeit einer neuartigen Lotstocktechnologie
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Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Eder, Rafael, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, and Eder, Rafael
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Diese Diplomarbeit behandelt die neuartige Lotstocktechnologie AP20 der Firma Leica Geosystems AG. Es geht um die Evaluierung dieses Produkts und die Fragestellung, inwiefern sich die Arbeitsweise und Produktivität in der Vermessungspraxis verändert. So erfolgt zuerst eine Literaturrecherche und Zusammenstellung des aktuellen Stands der Technik. Anschließend werden die Daten und Fakten des AP20 genannt und die Methodik zur Überprüfung erläutert. Die Evaluierung dieser Technologie erfolgt anhand eines fiktiven Kundenauftrages, welcher klassische Vermessungsaufgaben widerspiegelt. Ob die Erfüllung dieses Auftrages gelingt und wie sich die benötigte Zeit für diese Vermessungsaufgaben mit Hilfe des AP20 verändert wird im Zuge dieser Arbeit beantwortet., This thesis deals with the novel AP20 pole technology from Leica Geosystems AG. It is about the evaluation of this product and the question of how the working method and productivity in surveying practice are changing. The first step is a literature search and a compilation of the current state of the art. Then the data and facts of the AP20 are mentioned and the methodology for the review is explained. This technology is evaluated on the basis of a fictitious customer order, which reflects classic surveying tasks. Whether the fulfillment of this order is successful and how the time required for these surveying tasks changes with the help of the AP20 will be answered in the course of this work.
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10. Validierung einer spezialisierten Studiendatenanalyse für Mobilitätsindikatoren durch Desktop-GIS
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Schwarzbach, Ines, Spang, Robert P., Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Tümmler, Bartholomeus, Schwarzbach, Ines, Spang, Robert P., Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, and Tümmler, Bartholomeus
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In dieser Arbeit wurde eine Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin zur Analyse von menschlichen Bewegungsdaten der Studie Mobil im Havelland der Charité Berlin anhand von Mobilitätsindikatoren auf Grundlage von zwei Testdatensätzen mithilfe der Desktop-GIS ArcGIS Pro und QGIS validiert. Des Weiteren wurde in dieser Arbeit anhand der Auswertungsergebnisse der Desktop-GIS ArcGIS Pro und QGIS diskutiert, inwieweit sich Analysen von Bewegungsdaten anhand von Mobilitätsindikatoren auch unter einem preissensiblen Anspruch mit einem Open-Source-System wie QGIS off the shelf durchführen lassen. Die Validierung hat ergeben, dass die Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin im Vergleich mit den Desktop-GIS gleichwertige und zum Teil sogar höherwertigere Ergebnisse generieren konnte. Vor allem der auf neuartige Verfahren aufbauende Stop & Go Classifier der Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin konnte mit seiner Performance bei der Detektion von Verweilorten überzeugen. Somit kann der Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin ohne Einschränkungen eine Eignung für die Auswertung der Bewegungsdaten der Studie Mobil im Havelland bescheinigt werden. In Bezug auf den Vergleich der Desktop-GIS kann festgehalten werden, dass solche Analysen mit QGIS möglich sind. Eine Umsetzung mit off the shelf Verfahren ist aber vor allem in Bezug auf den zentralen Aspekt der Detektion von Verweilorten bis dato mit QGIS nicht gewährleistet. Hier muss auf externe Python-Bibliotheken wie MovingPandas oder Scikit-mobility zurückgegriffen werden., In this paper, a study data analysis of the TU Berlin for the analysis of human movement data of the study Mobil im Havelland based on mobility indicators is validated on the basis of two test data sets using the desktop GIS ArcGIS Pro and QGIS. Furthermore, this paper uses the evaluation results of the desktop GIS ArcGIS Pro and QGIS to discuss the extent to which analyses of movement data using mobility indicators can also be carried out off the shelf with an OSS such as QGIS under a price-sensitive claim. The validation showed that the TU Berlin's study data analysis was able to generate equivalent and in some cases even higher quality results compared to desktop GIS. The performance of the TU Berlin's Stop & Go Classifier, which is based on innovative procedures, was particularly convincing. Thus, the study data analysis of the TU Berlin can be certified without restrictions as suitable for the evaluation of the movement data of the study Mobile in Havelland. With regard to the comparison of desktop GIS, it can be stated that such analyses are possible with QGIS. However, an implementation with off-the-shelf methods is not yet guaranteed with QGIS, especially with regard to the central aspect of the detection of dwelling places. However, external Python libraries such as MovingPandas or scikit-mobility can be used here.
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11. Mapping urban surface materials using imaging spectroscopy data
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Lakes, Tobia, Feilhauer, Hannes, Lausch, Angela, van der Linden, Sebastian, Ji, Chaonan, Lakes, Tobia, Feilhauer, Hannes, Lausch, Angela, van der Linden, Sebastian, and Ji, Chaonan
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In reference to IEEE copyrighted material which is used with permission in this thesis, the IEEE does not endorse any of Humboldt University of Berlin's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. If interested in reprinting/republishing IEEE copyrighted material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution, please go to http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/rights_link.html to learn how to obtain a License from RightsLink., Die Kartierung der städtische Oberflächenmaterialien ist aufgrund der komplexen räumlichen Muster eine Herausforderung. Daten von bildgebenden Spektrometern können hierbei durch die feine und kontinuierliche Abtastung des elektromagnetischen Spektrums detaillierte spektrale Merkmale von Oberflächenmaterialien erkennen, was mit multispektralen oder RGB-Bildern nicht mit der gleichen Genauigkeit erreicht werden kann. Bislang wurden in zahlreichen Studien zur Kartierung von städtischen Oberflächenmaterialien Daten von flugzeuggestützten abbildenden Spektrometern mit hoher räumlicher Auflösung verwendet, die ihr Potenzial unter Beweis stellen und gute Ergebnisse liefern. Im Vergleich zu diesen Sensoren haben weltraumgestützte abbildende Spektrometer eine regionale oder globale Abdeckung, eine hohe Wiederholbarkeit und vermeiden teure, zeit- und arbeitsaufwändige Flugkampagnen. Allerdings liegt die räumliche Auflösung der aktuellen weltraumgestützten abbildenden Spektroskopiedaten bei etwa 30 m, was zu einem Mischpixelproblem führt, welches mit herkömmlichen Kartierungsansätzen nur schwer zu bewältigen ist. Das Hauptziel dieser Studie ist die Kartierung städtischer Materialien mit bildgebenden Spektroskopiedaten in verschiedenen Maßstäben und die gleichzeitige Nutzung des Informationsgehalts dieser Daten, um die chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften von Oberflächenmaterialien zu erfassen sowie das Mischpixelproblem zu berücksichtigen. Konkret zielt diese Arbeit darauf ab, (1) photovoltaische Solarmodule mit Hilfe von luftgestützten bildgebenden Spektroskopiedaten auf der Grundlage ihrer spektralen Merkmale zu kartieren; (2) die Robustheit der Stichprobe von städtischen Materialgradienten zu untersuchen; (3) die Übertragbarkeit von städtischen Materialgradienten auf andere Gebiete zu analysieren., Mapping urban surface materials is challenging due to the complex spatial patterns. Data from imaging spectrometers can identify detailed spectral features of surface materials through the fine and continuous sampling of the electromagnetic spectrum, which cannot be achieved with the same accuracy using multispectral or RGB images. To date, numerous studies in urban surface material mapping have been using data from airborne imaging spectrometers with high spatial resolution, demonstrating the potential and providing good results. Compared to these sensors, spaceborne imaging spectrometers have regional or global coverage, high repeatability, and avoid expensive, time-consuming, and labor-intensive flight campaigns. However, the spatial resolution of current spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data (also known as hyperspectral data) is about 30 m, resulting in a mixed pixel problem that is challenging to handle with conventional mapping approaches. The main objective of this study is to perform urban surface material mapping with imaging spectroscopy data at different spatial scales, simultaneously explore the information content of these data to detect the chemical and physical properties of surface materials, and take the mixed-pixel problem into account. Specifically, this thesis aims to (1) map solar photovoltaic modules using airborne imaging spectroscopy data based on their spectral features; (2) investigate the sampling robustness of urban material gradients; (3) analyze the area transferability of urban material gradients.
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12. Mapping urban surface materials using imaging spectroscopy data
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Ji, Chaonan, Lakes, Tobia, Feilhauer, Hannes, Lausch, Angela, and van der Linden, Sebastian
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Urban Environment ,RB 10627 ,Gradient analysis ,526 Mathematische Geografie ,urban materials ,Bildgebende Spektroskopie ,Imaging spectroscopy ,HySpex ,Fernerkundung ,550 Geowissenschaften ,photovoltaic ,Remote Sensing ,hyperspectral ,Gradientenanalyse ,Photovoltaic Solar Energy ,ddc:550 ,Städtische Umwelt ,AR 27300 ,Imaging Spectroscopy ,RB 10232 ,Photovoltaische Solarenergie ,urban ,ddc:526 - Abstract
Die Kartierung der städtische Oberflächenmaterialien ist aufgrund der komplexen räumlichen Muster eine Herausforderung. Daten von bildgebenden Spektrometern können hierbei durch die feine und kontinuierliche Abtastung des elektromagnetischen Spektrums detaillierte spektrale Merkmale von Oberflächenmaterialien erkennen, was mit multispektralen oder RGB-Bildern nicht mit der gleichen Genauigkeit erreicht werden kann. Bislang wurden in zahlreichen Studien zur Kartierung von städtischen Oberflächenmaterialien Daten von flugzeuggestützten abbildenden Spektrometern mit hoher räumlicher Auflösung verwendet, die ihr Potenzial unter Beweis stellen und gute Ergebnisse liefern. Im Vergleich zu diesen Sensoren haben weltraumgestützte abbildende Spektrometer eine regionale oder globale Abdeckung, eine hohe Wiederholbarkeit und vermeiden teure, zeit- und arbeitsaufwändige Flugkampagnen. Allerdings liegt die räumliche Auflösung der aktuellen weltraumgestützten abbildenden Spektroskopiedaten bei etwa 30 m, was zu einem Mischpixelproblem führt, welches mit herkömmlichen Kartierungsansätzen nur schwer zu bewältigen ist. Das Hauptziel dieser Studie ist die Kartierung städtischer Materialien mit bildgebenden Spektroskopiedaten in verschiedenen Maßstäben und die gleichzeitige Nutzung des Informationsgehalts dieser Daten, um die chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften von Oberflächenmaterialien zu erfassen sowie das Mischpixelproblem zu berücksichtigen. Konkret zielt diese Arbeit darauf ab, (1) photovoltaische Solarmodule mit Hilfe von luftgestützten bildgebenden Spektroskopiedaten auf der Grundlage ihrer spektralen Merkmale zu kartieren; (2) die Robustheit der Stichprobe von städtischen Materialgradienten zu untersuchen; (3) die Übertragbarkeit von städtischen Materialgradienten auf andere Gebiete zu analysieren. Mapping urban surface materials is challenging due to the complex spatial patterns. Data from imaging spectrometers can identify detailed spectral features of surface materials through the fine and continuous sampling of the electromagnetic spectrum, which cannot be achieved with the same accuracy using multispectral or RGB images. To date, numerous studies in urban surface material mapping have been using data from airborne imaging spectrometers with high spatial resolution, demonstrating the potential and providing good results. Compared to these sensors, spaceborne imaging spectrometers have regional or global coverage, high repeatability, and avoid expensive, time-consuming, and labor-intensive flight campaigns. However, the spatial resolution of current spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data (also known as hyperspectral data) is about 30 m, resulting in a mixed pixel problem that is challenging to handle with conventional mapping approaches. The main objective of this study is to perform urban surface material mapping with imaging spectroscopy data at different spatial scales, simultaneously explore the information content of these data to detect the chemical and physical properties of surface materials, and take the mixed-pixel problem into account. Specifically, this thesis aims to (1) map solar photovoltaic modules using airborne imaging spectroscopy data based on their spectral features; (2) investigate the sampling robustness of urban material gradients; (3) analyze the area transferability of urban material gradients.
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13. Remote Sensing of Surface Water Dynamics in the Context of Global Change - A Review
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Sogno, Patrick, Klein, Igor, and Kuenzer, Claudia
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remote sensing ,biosphere ,anthroposphere ,ddc:550 ,review ,surface water ,hydrology ,dynamics ,earth observation ,ddc:526 ,global change - Abstract
Inland surface water is often the most accessible freshwater source. As opposed to groundwater, surface water is replenished in a comparatively quick cycle, which makes this vital resource — if not overexploited — sustainable. From a global perspective, freshwater is plentiful. Still, depending on the region, surface water availability is severely limited. Additionally, climate change and human interventions act as large-scale drivers and cause dramatic changes in established surface water dynamics. Actions have to be taken to secure sustainable water availability and usage. This requires informed decision making based on reliable environmental data. Monitoring inland surface water dynamics is therefore more important than ever. Remote sensing is able to delineate surface water in a number of ways by using optical as well as active and passive microwave sensors. In this review, we look at the proceedings within this discipline by reviewing 233 scientific works. We provide an extensive overview of used sensors, the spatial and temporal resolution of studies, their thematic foci, and their spatial distribution. We observe that a wide array of available sensors and datasets, along with increasing computing capacities, have shaped the field over the last years. Multiple global analysis-ready products are available for investigating surface water area dynamics, but so far none offer high spatial and temporal resolution.
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14. State of the Vietnamese Coast—Assessing Three Decades (1986 to 2021) of Coastline Dynamics Using the Landsat Archive
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Lappe, Ronja, Ullmann, Tobias, and Bachofer, Felix
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Vietnam's 3260 km coastline is densely populated, experiences rapid urban and economic growth, and faces at the same time a high risk of coastal hazards. Satellite archives provide a free and powerful opportunity for long-term area-wide monitoring of the coastal zone. This paper presents an automated analysis of coastline dynamics from 1986 to 2021 for Vietnam's entire coastal zone using the Landsat archive. The proposed method is implemented within the cloud-computing platform Google Earth Engine to only involve publicly and globally available datasets and tools. We generated annual coastline composites representing the mean-high water level and extracted sub-pixel coastlines. We further quantified coastline change rates along shore-perpendicular transects, revealing that half of Vietnam's coast did not experience significant change, while the remaining half is classified as erosional (27.7%) and accretional (27.1%). A hotspot analysis shows that coastal segments with the highest change rates are concentrated in the low-lying deltas of the Mekong River in the south and the Red River in the north. Hotspots with the highest accretion rates of up to +47 m/year are mainly associated with the construction of artificial coastlines, while hotspots with the highest erosion rates of −28 m/year may be related to natural sediment redistribution and human activity.
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15. A Review on Viewpoints and Path-planning for UAV-based 3D Reconstruction
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Mehdi Maboudi, MohammadReza Homaei, Soohwan Song, Shirin Malihi, Mohammad Saadatseresht, and Markus Gerke
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Atmospheric Science ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) ,Aircraft navigation path planning -- autonomous aerial vehicles -- image reconstruction -- motion planning -- remotely guided vehicles -- surface reconstruction -- 3-D displays -- viewpoints planning ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Article ,Graphics (cs.GR) ,Computer Science - Robotics ,Computer Science - Graphics ,Veröffentlichung der TU Braunschweig ,ddc:52 ,Publikationsfonds der TU Braunschweig ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,Robotics (cs.RO) ,ddc:526 ,ddc:5 - Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used platforms to carry data capturing sensors for various applications. The reason for this success can be found in many aspects: the high maneuverability of the UAVs, the capability of performing autonomous data acquisition, flying at different heights, and the possibility to reach almost any vantage point. The selection of appropriate viewpoints and planning the optimum trajectories of UAVs is an emerging topic that aims at increasing the automation, efficiency and reliability of the data capturing process to achieve a dataset with desired quality. On the other hand, 3D reconstruction using the data captured by UAVs is also attracting attention in research and industry. This review paper investigates a wide range of model-free and model-based algorithms for viewpoint and path planning for 3D reconstruction of large-scale objects. The analyzed approaches are limited to those that employ a single-UAV as a data capturing platform for outdoor 3D reconstruction purposes. In addition to discussing the evaluation strategies, this paper also highlights the innovations and limitations of the investigated approaches. It concludes with a critical analysis of the existing challenges and future research perspectives., 33 page- 177 references
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16. High-quality uav-based orthophotos for cadastral mapping
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Francesco Nex, Claudia Stöcker, Markus Gerke, Mila Koeva, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management, UT-I-ITC-PLUS, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Department of Earth Observation Science, and UT-I-ITC-ACQUAL
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Geospatial analysis ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Computer science ,Cadastre ,Science ,Ground control points ,Impact assessment ,UAV ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Flight plan ,Context (language use) ,02 engineering and technology ,Land cover ,computer.software_genre ,01 natural sciences ,Article ,Veröffentlichung der TU Braunschweig ,Cadastral mapping ,021101 geological & geomatics engineering ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,ddc:5 ,Orthophoto ,Data quality ,15. Life on land ,Geometric accuracy ,ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,cadastral mapping ,data quality ,geometric accuracy ,impact assessment ,ground control points ,feature extraction ,flight plan ,Feature extraction ,Data mining ,ddc:52 ,ITC-GOLD ,computer ,ddc:526 - Abstract
During the past years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) gained importance as a tool to quickly collect high-resolution imagery as base data for cadastral mapping. However, the fact that UAV-derived geospatial information supports decision-making processes involving people’s land rights ultimately raises questions about data quality and accuracy. In this vein, this paper investigates different flight configurations to give guidance for efficient and reliable UAV data acquisition. Imagery from six study areas across Europe and Africa provide the basis for an integrated quality assessment including three main aspects: (1) the impact of land cover on the number of tie-points as an indication on how well bundle block adjustment can be performed, (2) the impact of the number of ground control points (GCPs) on the final geometric accuracy, and (3) the impact of different flight plans on the extractability of cadastral features. The results suggest that scene context, flight configuration, and GCP setup significantly impact the final data quality and subsequent automatic delineation of visual cadastral boundaries. Moreover, even though the root mean square error of checkpoint residuals as a commonly accepted error measure is within a range of few centimeters in all datasets, this study reveals large discrepancies of the accuracy and the completeness of automatically detected cadastral features for orthophotos generated from different flight plans. With its unique combination of methods and integration of various study sites, the results and recommendations presented in this paper can help land professionals and bottom-up initiatives alike to optimize existing and future UAV data collection workflows.
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17. Forward Gravity Modelling to Augment High-Resolution Combined Gravity Field Models
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Ince, E. Sinem, Abrykosov, Oleh, Förste, Christoph, Flechtner, Frank, Department 1: Geodesy, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, SpaceTech GmbH Immenstaad, Immenstaad, Germany, and Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Physics ,Gravity (chemistry) ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Mass distribution ,Spherical harmonics ,Geometry ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,ddc:526 ,01 natural sciences ,Ellipsoid ,ellipsoidal topographic potential ,Momentum ,gravity forward modelling ,Geophysics ,Gravitational field ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,Geoid ,500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften ,augmented gravity field models ,multi-layer forward modelling ,new-generation gravity field model ,Spectral method ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
During the last few years, the determination of high-resolution global gravity field has gained momentum due to high-accuracy satellite-derived observations and development of forward gravity modelling. Forward modelling computes the global gravitational field from mass distribution sources instead of actual gravity measurements and helps improving and complementing the medium to high-frequency components of the global gravity field models. In this study, we approximate the global gravity potential of the Earth’s upper crust based on ellipsoidal approximation and a mass layer concept. Such an approach has an advantage of spectral methods and also avoids possible instabilities due to the use of a sequence of thin ellipsoidal shells. Lateral density within these volumetric shells bounded by confocal lower and upper shell ellipsoids is used in the computation of the ellipsoidal harmonic coefficients which are then transformed into spherical harmonic coefficients on the Earth’s surface in the final step. The main outcome of this research is a spectral representation of the gravitatioal potential of the Earth’s upper crust, computed up to degree and order 3660 in terms of spherical harmonic coefficients (ROLI_EllApprox_SphN_3660). We evaluate our methodology by comparing this model with other similar forward models in the literature which show sub-cm agreement in terms of geoid undulations. Finally, EIGEN-6C4 is augmented by ROLI_EllApprox_SphN_3660 and the gravity field functionals computed from the expanded model which has about 5 km half-wavelength spatial resolution are compared w.r.t. ground-truth data in different regions worldwide. Our investigations show that the contribution of the topographic model increases the agreement up to ~ 20% in the gravity value comparisons.
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18. Sidescan sonar meets airborne and satellite remote sensing: challenges of a multi-device seafloor classification in extreme shallow water intertidal environments
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Capperucci, R. M., Kubicki, A., Holler, P., Bartholomä, A., Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and Geo Ingenieurservice Nord-West GmbH & Co. KG, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,sidescan sonar ,Intertidal zone ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology ,Oceanography ,ddc:526 ,01 natural sciences ,Sonar ,remote sensing ,Waves and shallow water ,Lidar ,Remote sensing (archaeology) ,Hydroacoustics ,seafloor classification ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Satellite ,Bathymetry ,Geology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Remote sensing - Abstract
Tidal ecosystems like the Wadden Sea are particularly valuable for their ecological and economic importance. Here, the natural dynamics of the abiotic and biotic processes is threatened by the human pressure, and great efforts are made on mapping and monitoring programs. Remote sensing techniques (e.g., satellite and airborne sources) are commonly used on land and intertidal areas, whereas hydroacoustic devices are deployed in the subtidal zones. The overlap of hydroacoustics (sidescan sonar) and airborne Lidar data in such sensitive transitional zone (inter- to subtidal) is rather uncommon. In order to test the limitations of both techniques in extremely shallow waters (0.7 m min, water depth) and to find the most efficient methods for the spatial classification of intertidal areas, a portion of the backbarrier tidal flat of Norderney was investigated. Lidar bathymetric data were used for extracting high resolution morphological information. Sidescan sonar mosaics were collected in two following years under contrasting weather conditions. An expert classification based on sidescan sonar backscatter intensity, seafloor texture, morphology, and surface sediment data subdivided the research area into 10 classes. The outcomes were compared with an existing RapidEye-based classification. The tested methods showed both advantages and limitations, which were discussed based on statistical analyses. Satellite and Lidar approaches were most suitable for mapping biogenic features (e.g., shellfish beds) over large areas, whereas sidescan sonar was superior for detail detection and discrimination of morpho-sedimentary regions. As an outlook, it is postulated to perform ground-truthed hydroacoustic mapping on small testing areas, and to use the obtained classification for training satellite-based classification algorithms., Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) (3507)
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19. Detection of grassland mowing events for Germany by combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series
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Reinermann, Sophie, Gessner, Ursula, Asam, Sarah, Ullmann, Tobias, Schucknecht, Anne, and Kuenzer, Claudia
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PolSAR ,earth observation ,harvests ,pasture ,InSAR ,Earth sciences ,remote sensing ,ddc:550 ,optical ,ddc:630 ,meadow ,grazing ,cutting events ,ddc:526 ,SAR - Abstract
Grasslands cover one-third of the agricultural area in Germany and play an important economic role by providing fodder for livestock. In addition, they fulfill important ecosystem services, such as carbon storage, water purification, and the provision of habitats. These ecosystem services usually depend on the grassland management. In central Europe, grasslands are grazed and/or mown, whereby the management type and intensity vary in space and time. Spatial information on the mowing timing and frequency on larger scales are usually not available but would be required in order to assess the ecosystem services, species composition, and grassland yields. Time series of high-resolution satellite remote sensing data can be used to analyze the temporal and spatial dynamics of grasslands. Within this study, we aim to overcome the drawbacks identified by previous studies, such as optical data availability and the lack of comprehensive reference data, by testing the time series of various Sentinel-2 (S2) and Sentinal-1 (S1) parameters and combinations of them in order to detect mowing events in Germany in 2019. We developed a threshold-based algorithm by using information from a comprehensive reference dataset of heterogeneously managed grassland parcels in Germany, obtained by RGB cameras. The developed approach using the enhanced vegetation index (EVI) derived from S2 led to a successful mowing event detection in Germany (60.3% of mowing events detected, F1-Score = 0.64). However, events shortly before, during, or shortly after cloud gaps were missed and in regions with lower S2 orbit coverage fewer mowing events were detected. Therefore, S1-based backscatter, InSAR, and PolSAR features were investigated during S2 data gaps. From these, the PolSAR entropy detected mowing events most reliably. For a focus region, we tested an integrated approach by combining S2 and S1 parameters. This approach detected additional mowing events, but also led to many false positive events, resulting in a reduction in the F1-Score (from 0.65 of S2 to 0.61 of S2 + S1 for the focus region). According to our analysis, a majority of grasslands in Germany are only mown zero to two times (around 84%) and are probably additionally used for grazing. A small proportion is mown more often than four times (3%). Regions with a generally higher grassland mowing frequency are located in southern, south-eastern, and northern Germany.
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20. Potential of airborne LiDAR derived vegetation structure for the prediction of animal species richness at Mount Kilimanjaro
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Alice Ziegler, Hanna Meyer, Insa Otte, Marcell K. Peters, Tim Appelhans, Christina Behler, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Alice Classen, Florian Detsch, Jürgen Deckert, Connal D. Eardley, Stefan W. Ferger, Markus Fischer, Friederike Gebert, Michael Haas, Maria Helbig-Bonitz, Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp, Victor Kakengi, Antonia V. Mayr, Christine Ngereza, Christoph Reudenbach, Juliane Röder, Gemma Rutten, David Schellenberger Costa, Matthias Schleuning, Axel Ssymank, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Joseph Tardanico, Marco Tschapka, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Stephan Wöllauer, Jie Zhang, Roland Brandl, and Thomas Nauss
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LiDAR ,elevation ,Science ,Geografie, Reisen ,Biodiversity ,arthropods ,580 Plants (Botany) ,species richness ,biodiversity ,predictive modeling ,partial least square regression ,bats ,birds ,Geography & travel ,Predictive modeling ,Birds ,ddc:590 ,Bats ,Elevation ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Arthropods ,ddc:526 ,Partial least square regression ,Species richness ,ddc:910 - Abstract
The monitoring of species and functional diversity is of increasing relevance for the development of strategies for the conservation and management of biodiversity. Therefore, reliable estimates of the performance of monitoring techniques across taxa become important. Using a unique dataset, this study investigates the potential of airborne LiDAR-derived variables characterizing vegetation structure as predictors for animal species richness at the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. To disentangle the structural LiDAR information from co-factors related to elevational vegetation zones, LiDAR-based models were compared to the predictive power of elevation models. 17 taxa and 4 feeding guilds were modeled and the standardized study design allowed for a comparison across the assemblages. Results show that most taxa (14) and feeding guilds (3) can be predicted best by elevation with normalized RMSE values but only for three of those taxa and two of those feeding guilds the difference to other models is significant. Generally, modeling performances between different models vary only slightly for each assemblage. For the remaining, structural information at most showed little additional contribution to the performance. In summary, LiDAR observations can be used for animal species prediction. However, the effort and cost of aerial surveys are not always in proportion with the prediction quality, especially when the species distribution follows zonal patterns, and elevation information yields similar results.
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21. Mapping crop types of Germany by combining temporal statistical metrics of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series with LPIS data
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Asam, Sarah, Gessner, Ursula, Almengor González, Roger, Wenzl, Martina, Kriese, Jennifer, and Kuenzer, Claudia
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temporal statistics ,random forest classification ,spectral statistics ,IACS ,radar data ,ddc:630 ,multispectral data ,ddc:526 ,agriculture - Abstract
Nationwide and consistent information on agricultural land use forms an important basis for sustainable land management maintaining food security, (agro)biodiversity, and soil fertility, especially as German agriculture has shown high vulnerability to climate change. Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite data of the Copernicus program offer time series with temporal, spatial, radiometric, and spectral characteristics that have great potential for mapping and monitoring agricultural crops. This paper presents an approach which synergistically uses these multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) time series for the classification of 17 crop classes at 10 m spatial resolution for Germany in the year 2018. Input data for the Random Forest (RF) classification are monthly statistics of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series. This approach reduces the amount of input data and pre-processing steps while retaining phenological information, which is crucial for crop type discrimination. For training and validation, Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) data were available covering 15 of the 16 German Federal States. An overall map accuracy of 75.5% was achieved, with class-specific F1-scores above 80% for winter wheat, maize, sugar beet, and rapeseed. By combining optical and SAR data, overall accuracies could be increased by 6% and 9%, respectively, compared to single sensor approaches. While no increase in overall accuracy could be achieved by stratifying the classification in natural landscape regions, the class-wise accuracies for all but the cereal classes could be improved, on average, by 7%. In comparison to census data, the crop areas could be approximated well with, on average, only 1% of deviation in class-specific acreages. Using this streamlined approach, similar accuracies for the most widespread crop types as well as for smaller permanent crop classes were reached as in other Germany-wide crop type studies, indicating its potential for repeated nationwide crop type mapping.
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22. Detecting moving trucks on roads using Sentinel-2 data
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Fisser, Henrik, Khorsandi, Ehsan, Wegmann, Martin, and Baier, Frank
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In most countries, freight is predominantly transported by road cargo trucks. We present a new satellite remote sensing method for detecting moving trucks on roads using Sentinel-2 data. The method exploits a temporal sensing offset of the Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument, causing spatially and spectrally distorted signatures of moving objects. A random forest classifier was trained (overall accuracy: 84%) on visual-near-infrared-spectra of 2500 globally labelled targets. Based on the classification, the target objects were extracted using a developed recursive neighbourhood search. The speed and the heading of the objects were approximated. Detections were validated by employing 350 globally labelled target boxes (mean F\(_1\) score: 0.74). The lowest F\(_1\) score was achieved in Kenya (0.36), the highest in Poland (0.88). Furthermore, validated at 26 traffic count stations in Germany on in sum 390 dates, the truck detections correlate spatio-temporally with station figures (Pearson r-value: 0.82, RMSE: 43.7). Absolute counts were underestimated on 81% of the dates. The detection performance may differ by season and road condition. Hence, the method is only suitable for approximating the relative truck traffic abundance rather than providing accurate absolute counts. However, existing road cargo monitoring methods that rely on traffic count stations or very high resolution remote sensing data have limited global availability. The proposed moving truck detection method could fill this gap, particularly where other information on road cargo traffic are sparse by employing globally and freely available Sentinel-2 data. It is inferior to the accuracy and the temporal detail of station counts, but superior in terms of spatial coverage.
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23. A spectral mixture analysis and landscape metrics based framework for monitoring spatiotemporal forest cover changes: a case study in Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Halbgewachs, Magdalena Felicitas, Wegmann, Martin, and Da Ponte, Emmanuel
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An increasing amount of Brazilian rainforest is being lost or degraded for various reasons, both anthropogenic and natural, leading to a loss of biodiversity and further global consequences. Especially in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, soy production and large-scale cattle farms led to extensive losses of rainforest in recent years. We used a spectral mixture approach followed by a decision tree classification based on more than 30 years of Landsat data to quantify these losses. Research has shown that current methods for assessing forest degradation are lacking accuracy. Therefore, we generated classifications to determine land cover changes for each year, focusing on both cleared and degraded forest land. The analyses showed a decrease in forest area in Mato Grosso by 28.8% between 1986 and 2020. In order to measure changed forest structures for the selected period, fragmentation analyses based on diverse landscape metrics were carried out for the municipality of Colniza in Mato Grosso. It was found that forest areas experienced also a high degree of fragmentation over the study period, with an increase of 83.3% of the number of patches and a decrease of the mean patch area of 86.1% for the selected time period, resulting in altered habitats for flora and fauna.
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24. Validierung einer spezialisierten Studiendatenanalyse für Mobilitätsindikatoren durch Desktop-GIS
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Tümmler, Bartholomeus, Schwarzbach, Ines, Spang, Robert P., and Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
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movement data, mobility indicators, ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, MovingPandas, scikit-mobility, Stop-Detection, Stop & Go Classifier, GPS, GNSS, Mobil im Havelland ,Bewegungsdaten, Mobilitätsindikatoren, ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, MovingPandas, scikit-mobility, Stop-Detection, Stop & Go Classifier, GPS, GNSS, Mobil im Havelland ,ddc:526 - Abstract
In dieser Arbeit wurde eine Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin zur Analyse von menschlichen Bewegungsdaten der Studie Mobil im Havelland der Charité Berlin anhand von Mobilitätsindikatoren auf Grundlage von zwei Testdatensätzen mithilfe der Desktop-GIS ArcGIS Pro und QGIS validiert. Des Weiteren wurde in dieser Arbeit anhand der Auswertungsergebnisse der Desktop-GIS ArcGIS Pro und QGIS diskutiert, inwieweit sich Analysen von Bewegungsdaten anhand von Mobilitätsindikatoren auch unter einem preissensiblen Anspruch mit einem Open-Source-System wie QGIS off the shelf durchführen lassen. Die Validierung hat ergeben, dass die Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin im Vergleich mit den Desktop-GIS gleichwertige und zum Teil sogar höherwertigere Ergebnisse generieren konnte. Vor allem der auf neuartige Verfahren aufbauende Stop & Go Classifier der Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin konnte mit seiner Performance bei der Detektion von Verweilorten überzeugen. Somit kann der Studiendatenanalyse der TU Berlin ohne Einschränkungen eine Eignung für die Auswertung der Bewegungsdaten der Studie Mobil im Havelland bescheinigt werden. In Bezug auf den Vergleich der Desktop-GIS kann festgehalten werden, dass solche Analysen mit QGIS möglich sind. Eine Umsetzung mit off the shelf Verfahren ist aber vor allem in Bezug auf den zentralen Aspekt der Detektion von Verweilorten bis dato mit QGIS nicht gewährleistet. Hier muss auf externe Python-Bibliotheken wie MovingPandas oder Scikit-mobility zurückgegriffen werden. In this paper, a study data analysis of the TU Berlin for the analysis of human movement data of the study Mobil im Havelland based on mobility indicators is validated on the basis of two test data sets using the desktop GIS ArcGIS Pro and QGIS. Furthermore, this paper uses the evaluation results of the desktop GIS ArcGIS Pro and QGIS to discuss the extent to which analyses of movement data using mobility indicators can also be carried out off the shelf with an OSS such as QGIS under a price-sensitive claim. The validation showed that the TU Berlin's study data analysis was able to generate equivalent and in some cases even higher quality results compared to desktop GIS. The performance of the TU Berlin's Stop & Go Classifier, which is based on innovative procedures, was particularly convincing. Thus, the study data analysis of the TU Berlin can be certified without restrictions as suitable for the evaluation of the movement data of the study Mobile in Havelland. With regard to the comparison of desktop GIS, it can be stated that such analyses are possible with QGIS. However, an implementation with off-the-shelf methods is not yet guaranteed with QGIS, especially with regard to the central aspect of the detection of dwelling places. However, external Python libraries such as MovingPandas or scikit-mobility can be used here.
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25. Changes of SOC content in China's Shendong coal mining area during 1990–2020 investigated using remote sensing techniques
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Xuting Yang, Wanqiang Yao, Pengfei Li, Jinfei Hu, Hooman Latifi, Li Kang, Ningjing Wang, and Dingming Zhang
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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Geography, Planning and Development ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,ddc:550 ,Building and Construction ,sense organs ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,loess plateau ,coal mining area ,SOC content prediction ,human disturbance ,vegetation restoration ,climate change ,ddc:526 - Abstract
Coal mining, an important human activity, disturbs soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation and decomposition, eventually affecting terrestrial carbon cycling and the sustainability of human society. However, changes of SOC content and their relation with influential factors in coal mining areas remained unclear. In the study, predictive models of SOC content were developed based on field sampling and Landsat images for different land-use types (grassland, forest, farmland, and bare land) of the largest coal mining area in China (i.e., Shendong). The established models were employed to estimate SOC content across the Shendong mining area during 1990–2020, followed by an investigation into the impacts of climate change and human disturbance on SOC content by a Geo-detector. Results showed that the models produced satisfactory results (R2 > 0.69, p < 0.05), demonstrating that SOC content over a large coal mining area can be effectively assessed using remote sensing techniques. Results revealed that average SOC content in the study area rose from 5.67 gC·kg−1 in 1990 to 9.23 gC·kg−1 in 2010 and then declined to 5.31 gC·Kg−1 in 2020. This could be attributed to the interaction between the disturbance of soil caused by coal mining and the improvement of eco-environment by land reclamation. Spatially, the SOC content of farmland was the highest, followed by grassland, and that of bare land was the lowest. SOC accumulation was inhibited by coal mining activities, with the effect of high-intensity mining being lower than that of moderate- and low-intensity mining activities. Land use was found to be the strongest individual influencing factor for SOC content changes, while the interaction between vegetation coverage and precipitation exerted the most significant influence on the variability of SOC content. Furthermore, the influence of mining intensity combined with precipitation was 10 times higher than that of mining intensity alone.
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26. Detailed mapping of lava and ash deposits at Indonesian volcanoes by means of VHR PlanetScope change detection
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Rösch, Moritz and Plank, Simon
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Mapping of lava flows in unvegetated areas of active volcanoes using optical satellite data is challenging due to spectral similarities of volcanic deposits and the surrounding background. Using very high-resolution PlanetScope data, this study introduces a novel object-oriented classification approach for mapping lava flows in both vegetated and unvegetated areas during several eruptive phases of three Indonesian volcanoes (Karangetang 2018/2019, Agung 2017, Krakatau 2018/2019). For this, change detection analysis based on PlanetScope imagery for mapping loss of vegetation due to volcanic activity (e.g., lava flows) is combined with the analysis of changes in texture and brightness, with hydrological runoff modelling and with analysis of thermal anomalies derived from Sentinel-2 or Landsat-8. Qualitative comparison of the mapped lava flows showed good agreement with multispectral false color time series (Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8). Reports of the Global Volcanism Program support the findings, indicating the developed lava mapping approach produces valuable results for monitoring volcanic hazards. Despite the lack of bands in infrared wavelengths, PlanetScope proves beneficial for the assessment of risk and near-real-time monitoring of active volcanoes due to its high spatial (3 m) and temporal resolution (mapping of all subaerial volcanoes on a daily basis).
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27. Evaluierung der Einsatzfähigkeit einer neuartigen Lotstocktechnologie
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Eder, Rafael and Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
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Vermessung, Lotstock, AP20, Tachymeter, Zielhöhe, Neigung, geneigt ,ddc:526 ,Leica Geosystems, TargetID, AutoPole, PoleHeight, Tilt, Tilted, Total Station - Abstract
Diese Diplomarbeit behandelt die neuartige Lotstocktechnologie AP20 der Firma Leica Geosystems AG. Es geht um die Evaluierung dieses Produkts und die Fragestellung, inwiefern sich die Arbeitsweise und Produktivität in der Vermessungspraxis verändert. So erfolgt zuerst eine Literaturrecherche und Zusammenstellung des aktuellen Stands der Technik. Anschließend werden die Daten und Fakten des AP20 genannt und die Methodik zur Überprüfung erläutert. Die Evaluierung dieser Technologie erfolgt anhand eines fiktiven Kundenauftrages, welcher klassische Vermessungsaufgaben widerspiegelt. Ob die Erfüllung dieses Auftrages gelingt und wie sich die benötigte Zeit für diese Vermessungsaufgaben mit Hilfe des AP20 verändert wird im Zuge dieser Arbeit beantwortet. This thesis deals with the novel AP20 pole technology from Leica Geosystems AG. It is about the evaluation of this product and the question of how the working method and productivity in surveying practice are changing. The first step is a literature search and a compilation of the current state of the art. Then the data and facts of the AP20 are mentioned and the methodology for the review is explained. This technology is evaluated on the basis of a fictitious customer order, which reflects classic surveying tasks. Whether the fulfillment of this order is successful and how the time required for these surveying tasks changes with the help of the AP20 will be answered in the course of this work.
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28. A framework for multivariate analysis of land surface dynamics and driving variables — a case study for Indo-Gangetic river basins
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Uereyen, Soner, Bachofer, Felix, and Kuenzer, Claudia
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trends ,surface water area ,Himalaya Karakoram ,seasonality ,NDVI ,Science ,causal networks ,partial correlation ,time series analysis ,ddc:550 ,snow cover area ,Indus-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna ,ddc:526 - Abstract
The analysis of the Earth system and interactions among its spheres is increasingly important to improve the understanding of global environmental change. In this regard, Earth observation (EO) is a valuable tool for monitoring of long term changes over the land surface and its features. Although investigations commonly study environmental change by means of a single EO-based land surface variable, a joint exploitation of multivariate land surface variables covering several spheres is still rarely performed. In this regard, we present a novel methodological framework for both, the automated processing of multisource time series to generate a unified multivariate feature space, as well as the application of statistical time series analysis techniques to quantify land surface change and driving variables. In particular, we unify multivariate time series over the last two decades including vegetation greenness, surface water area, snow cover area, and climatic, as well as hydrological variables. Furthermore, the statistical time series analyses include quantification of trends, changes in seasonality, and evaluation of drivers using the recently proposed causal discovery algorithm Peter and Clark Momentary Conditional Independence (PCMCI). We demonstrate the functionality of our methodological framework using Indo-Gangetic river basins in South Asia as a case study. The time series analyses reveal increasing trends in vegetation greenness being largely dependent on water availability, decreasing trends in snow cover area being mostly negatively coupled to temperature, and trends of surface water area to be spatially heterogeneous and linked to various driving variables. Overall, the obtained results highlight the value and suitability of this methodological framework with respect to global climate change research, enabling multivariate time series preparation, derivation of detailed information on significant trends and seasonality, as well as detection of causal links with minimal user intervention. This study is the first to use multivariate time series including several EO-based variables to analyze land surface dynamics over the last two decades using the causal discovery algorithm PCMCI.
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29. Comparing PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 imagery for mapping mountain pines in the Sarntal Alps, Italy
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Moritz Rösch, Ruth Sonnenschein, Sebastian Buchelt, and Tobias Ullmann
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mountain pines ,PlanetScope ,Sentinel-2 ,gray level co-occurrence matrix ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,ddc:526 - Abstract
The mountain pine (Pinus mugo ssp. Mugo Turra) is an important component of the alpine treeline ecotone and fulfills numerous ecosystem functions. To understand and quantify the impacts of increasing logging activities and climatic changes in the European Alps, accurate information on the occurrence and distribution of mountain pine stands is needed. While Earth observation provides up-to-date information on land cover, space-borne mapping of mountain pines is challenging as different coniferous species are spectrally similar, and small-structured patches may remain undetected due to the sensor’s spatial resolution. This study uses multi-temporal optical imagery from PlanetScope (3 m) and Sentinel-2 (10 m) and combines them with additional features (e.g., textural statistics (homogeneity, contrast, entropy, spatial mean and spatial variance) from gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), topographic features (elevation, slope and aspect) and canopy height information) to overcome the present challenges in mapping mountain pine stands. Specifically, we assessed the influence of spatial resolution and feature space composition including the GLCM window size for textural features. The study site is covering the Sarntal Alps, Italy, a region known for large stands of mountain pine. Our results show that mountain pines can be accurately mapped (PlanetScope (90.96%) and Sentinel-2 (90.65%)) by combining all features. In general, Sentinel-2 can achieve comparable results to PlanetScope independent of the feature set composition, despite the lower spatial resolution. In particular, the inclusion of textural features improved the accuracy by +8% (PlanetScope) and +3% (Sentinel-2), whereas accuracy improvements of topographic features and canopy height were low. The derived map of mountain pines in the Sarntal Alps supports local forest management to monitor and assess recent and ongoing anthropogenic and climatic changes at the treeline. Furthermore, our study highlights the importance of freely available Sentinel-2 data and image-derived textural features to accurately map mountain pines in Alpine environments.
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30. Satellite Gravimetry: A Review of Its Realization
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Flechtner, Frank, Reigber, Christoph, Rummel, Reiner, Balmino, Georges, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Geosciences, University Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technical University Munich, München, Germany, and OMP (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées), Toulouse, France
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Gravity (chemistry) ,Satellite geodesy ,GRACE FO ,Climate change ,Satellite gradiometry ,Kepler ,ddc:526 ,Article ,Space Age ,Physics::Geophysics ,Gravitational field ,GRACE ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,Mass changes ,500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften ,Satellite orbits ,Gravity field models ,Satellite altimetry ,Satellite gravimetry ,Laser interferometer ,Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics ,GOCE ,Satellite design ,Mission objectives ,Geodesy ,ddc ,Geophysics ,Orbital motion ,Gravitational field missions ,CHAMP ,Physics::Space Physics ,Satellite ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
Since Kepler, Newton and Huygens in the seventeenth century, geodesy has been concerned with determining the figure, orientation and gravitational field of the Earth. With the beginning of the space age in 1957, a new branch of geodesy was created, satellite geodesy. Only with satellites did geodesy become truly global. Oceans were no longer obstacles and the Earth as a whole could be observed and measured in consistent series of measurements. Of particular interest is the determination of the spatial structures and finally the temporal changes of the Earth's gravitational field. The knowledge of the gravitational field represents the natural bridge to the study of the physics of the Earth's interior, the circulation of our oceans and, more recently, the climate. Today, key findings on climate change are derived from the temporal changes in the gravitational field: on ice mass loss in Greenland and Antarctica, sea level rise and generally on changes in the global water cycle. This has only become possible with dedicated gravity satellite missions opening a method known as satellite gravimetry. In the first forty years of space age, satellite gravimetry was based on the analysis of the orbital motion of satellites. Due to the uneven distribution of observatories over the globe, the initially inaccurate measuring methods and the inadequacies of the evaluation models, the reconstruction of global models of the Earth's gravitational field was a great challenge. The transition from passive satellites for gravity field determination to satellites equipped with special sensor technology, which was initiated in the last decade of the twentieth century, brought decisive progress. In the chronological sequence of the launch of such new satellites, the history, mission objectives and measuring principles of the missions CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE flown since 2000 are outlined and essential scientific results of the individual missions are highlighted. The special features of the GRACE Follow-On Mission, which was launched in 2018, and the plans for a next generation of gravity field missions are also discussed., Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum - GFZ (4217)
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31. Vegetation Growth Analysis of UNESCO World Heritage Hyrcanian Forests Using Multi-Sensor Optical Remote Sensing Data
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Hooman Latifi, Siddhartha Khare, and Suyash Khare
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World Heritage Sites ,NDVI ,Phenology ,Range (biology) ,TNPI ,Science ,Elevation ,Vegetation ,Unesco world heritage ,phenology ,Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ,ddc:580 ,Hyrcanian forest ,Remote sensing (archaeology) ,Sentinel-2 ,Google Earth Engine ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental science ,Physical geography ,Precipitation ,ddc:526 - Abstract
Freely available satellite data at Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform enables vegetation phenology analysis across different scales very efficiently. We evaluated seasonal and annual phenology of the old-growth Hyrcanian forests (HF) of northern Iran covering an area of ca. 1.9 million ha, and also focused on 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We extracted bi-weekly MODIS-NDVI between 2017 and 2020 in GEE, which was used to identify the range of NDVI between two temporal stages. Then, changes in phenology and growth were analyzed by Sentinel 2-derived Temporal Normalized Phenology Index. We modelled between seasonal phenology and growth by additionally considering elevation, surface temperature, and monthly precipitation. Results indicated considerable difference in onset of forests along the longitudinal gradient of the HF. Faster growth was observed in low- and uplands of the western zone, whereas it was lower in both the mid-elevations and the western outskirts. Longitudinal range was a major driver of vegetation growth, to which environmental factors also differently but significantly contributed (p < 0.0001) along the west-east gradient. Our study developed at GEE provides a benchmark to examine the effects of environmental parameters on the vegetation growth of HF, which cover mountainous areas with partly no or limited accessibility.
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32. A Training Sample Migration Method for Wetland Mapping and Monitoring Using Sentinel Data in Google Earth Engine
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Erfan Fekri, Meisam Amani, Abdolkarim Zobeidinezhad, and Hooman Latifi
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training sample migration ,Science ,Google Earth Engine (GEE) ,Sample (statistics) ,Spectral bands ,Wetland classification ,Standard deviation ,Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ,wetland ,Random forest ,Euclidean distance ,sentinel ,Statistics ,ddc:550 ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental science ,ddc:526 ,Change detection - Abstract
Wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems due to their critical services to both humans and the environment. Therefore, wetland mapping and monitoring are essential for their conservation. In this regard, remote sensing offers efficient solutions due to the availability of cost-efficient archived images over different spatial scales. However, a lack of sufficient consistent training samples at different times is a significant limitation of multi-temporal wetland monitoring. In this study, a new training sample migration method was developed to identify unchanged training samples to be used in wetland classification and change analyses over the International Shadegan Wetland (ISW) areas of southwestern Iran. To this end, we first produced the wetland map of a reference year (2020), for which we had training samples, by combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images and the Random Forest (RF) classifier in Google Earth Engine (GEE). The Overall Accuracy (OA) and Kappa coefficient (KC) of this reference map were 97.93% and 0.97, respectively. Then, an automatic change detection method was developed to migrate unchanged training samples from the reference year to the target years of 2018, 2019, and 2021. Within the proposed method, three indices of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), and the mean Standard Deviation (SD) of the spectral bands, along with two similarity measures of the Euclidean Distance (ED) and Spectral Angle Distance (SAD), were computed for each pair of reference–target years. The optimum threshold for unchanged samples was also derived using a histogram thresholding approach, which led to selecting the samples that were most likely unchanged based on the highest OA and KC for classifying the test dataset. The proposed migration sample method resulted in high OAs of 95.89%, 96.83%, and 97.06% and KCs of 0.95, 0.96, and 0.96 for the target years of 2018, 2019, and 2021, respectively. Finally, the migrated samples were used to generate the wetland map for the target years. Overall, our proposed method showed high potential for wetland mapping and monitoring when no training samples existed for a target year.
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33. A Consumer Grade UAV-Based Framework to Estimate Structural Attributes of Coppice and High Oak Forest Stands in Semi-Arid Regions
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Hooman Latifi and Seyed Arvin Fakhri
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Biomass (ecology) ,biology ,biomass ,Zagros Forests ,DBH ,Science ,Diameter at breast height ,Tree allometry ,Forestry ,biology.organism_classification ,Arid ,Random forest ,Coppicing ,Tree structure ,Q. brantii ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental science ,Quercus brantii ,tree structure ,ddc:526 - Abstract
Semi-arid tree covers, in both high and coppice growth forms, play an essential role in protecting water and soil resources and provides multiple ecosystem services across fragile ecosystems. Thus, they require continuous inventories. Quantification of forest structure in these tree covers provides important measures for their management and biodiversity conservation. We present a framework, based on consumer-grade UAV photogrammetry, to separately estimate primary variables of tree height (H) and crown area (A) across diverse coppice and high stands dominated by Quercus brantii Lindl. along the latitudinal gradient of Zagros mountains of western Iran. Then, multivariate linear regressions were parametrized with H and A to estimate the diameter at breast height (DBH) of high trees because of its importance to accelerate the existing practical DBH inventories across Zagros Forests. The estimated variables were finally applied to a model tree aboveground biomass (AGB) for both vegetative growth forms by local allometric equations and Random Forest models. In each step, the estimated variables were evaluated against the field reference values, indicating practically high accuracies reaching root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.68 m and 4.74 cm for H and DBH, as well as relative RMSE < 10% for AGB estimates. The results generally suggest an effective framework for single tree-based attribute estimation over mountainous, semi-arid coppice, and high stands.
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34. Nutzung von GNSS-Messungen für die Analyse geodynamischer Prozesse in der Antarktis
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Horwath, Martin, Wanninger, Lambert, Dach, Rolf, Technische Universität Dresden, Busch, Peter, Horwath, Martin, Wanninger, Lambert, Dach, Rolf, Technische Universität Dresden, and Busch, Peter
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Die Antarktis ist eine Schlüsselregion für die Entwicklung des Klimageschehens auf der Erde. Globale Satellitennavigationssysteme (GNSS) helfen dabei, die damit verbundenen geodynamischen Prozesse besser zu verstehen, indem mit wiederholten oder kontinuierlichen Messungen präzise Deformationsraten der festen Erde abgeleitet werden. Neben der Bestimmung von plattentektonischen Bewegungen zählt in den Polargebieten insbesondere die Erfassung des glazial-isostatischen Ausgleichs (GIA) zu den wichtigsten Anwendungsbereichen von GNSS. GIA beschreibt die Reaktion der festen Erde auf sich verändernde Eisauflasten und äußert sich in einer an der Erdoberfläche messbaren Deformation, welche größtenteils durch Umverteilungen des zähflüssigen Mantelmaterials innerhalb der Erde verursacht wird. Die mittels Satellitengravimetrie bestimmten Eismassenbilanzen, welche etwa bei Klimamodellierungen verwendet werden können, weisen große Fehlereinflüsse durch die Unsicherheiten der GIA-bedingten Massenumverlagerungen auf. Deshalb sind die GNSS-Ergebnisse für die Validierung der GIA-Modelle und darauf basierende Untersuchungen von großer Bedeutung. In der hier vorliegenden Arbeit wurde eine konsistente Prozessierung von allen verfügbaren, in der Antarktis auf Fels gemessenen GNSS-Daten durchgeführt. Die Daten wurden im Rahmen der internationalen Kooperation GIANT-REGAIN (Geodynamics In ANTarctica based on REprocessing GNSS dAta INitiative) zur Verfügung gestellt und die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit stellen zugleich einen Beitrag dazu dar. Ein großes Problem der bisherigen GNSS-Untersuchungen der Antarktis war der beschränkte Umfang, sei es in Folge einer regionalen Analyse oder durch eine eingeschränkte Auswahl an GNSS-Stationen bei Auswertungen im kontinentalen oder globalen Maßstab. Einige wichtige Regionen wurden zudem nur sehr selten berücksichtigt, etwa die durch extreme Eismassenverluste gekennzeichnete Amundsensee-Region. Die verschiedenen GNSS-Untersuchungen verwendeten unterschiedli, Antarctica is a key region for the development of the climate on Earth. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) help to better understand the associated geodynamic processes by deriving precise deformation rates of the solid Earth using repeated or continuous measurements. Besides the determination of plate tectonic movements, the determination of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) is one of the most important applications of GNSS in polar regions. GIA describes the response of the solid Earth to changing ice-loads. It manifests itself in a deformation measurable at the Earth's surface, which is mainly caused by redistributions of the viscous mantle material within the Earth. The ice-mass balances determined by satellite gravimetry, which serves as an input variable for climate modelling, are largely affected by errors due to the uncertainties of the GIA-induced mass redistributions. Therefore, GNSS results are very important for the validation of GIA models and studies based on them. In this thesis a consistent processing of all GNSS data was performed which were measured on bedrock in Antarctica. The data were made available within the international cooperation GIANT-REGAIN (Geodynamics In ANTarctica based on REprocessing GNSS dAta INitiative). In turn, the results of this work are a contribution to this project as well. A major problem of previous GNSS studies in Antarctica has been the limited coverage, resulting from either a regional analysis or a limited selection of GNSS sites for investigations on a continental or global scale. Moreover, some important regions were only very rarely considered, such as the Amundsen Sea embayment which is characterized by an extreme ice-mass loss. Various GNSS studies accomplished so far used different processing strategies, input models and reference frames, so that inferred rates cannot be compared directly. Therefore, in most cases a validation of the GIA models is only possible to a limited extent. Now, with the joint
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35. Wenn Karten reden könnten: Ein kulturhistorischer Blick auf alte Karten und Pläne Hoyerswerdas und der Lausitz
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Schloss und Stadtmuseum Hoyerswerda, Steller, Marcel, Flöter, Sandra, Tesselaar, Nienke, Schaffer, Magdalena, Friedek, Lena, Schloss und Stadtmuseum Hoyerswerda, Steller, Marcel, Flöter, Sandra, Tesselaar, Nienke, Schaffer, Magdalena, and Friedek, Lena
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Wie sah Hoyerswerda während der Industrialisierung aus? Welche Veränderungen hat die Lausitz in den letzten 300 Jahren erlebt? Alte Karten faszinieren nicht nur viele Menschen – sie sind auch immer öfter ganz einfach digital zugänglich. Was oft fehlt, um eine Karte wirklich zu verstehen, ist der so wichtige Kontext. Um die vielen alten Karten und Pläne der Region verstehen zu können, bietet diese Publikation nicht nur eine große Zahl von Hinweisen, sondern liefert auch sozial- und kulturgeschichtliche Hintergründe, die in vielen verschiedenen Ansätzen gemeinsam mit Studentinnen interdisziplinär erarbeitet wurden.:Einleitung Marcel Steller: Woher kommen Karten? Seite 5 Sandra Flöter: Historischer Abriss der Landesaufnahme, Seite 8 Teil I: Karten und Bedeutung Marcel Steller: Kartosemiotik, Seite 10 Marcel Steller: Niederländer in Hoyerswerda – die Schule der Kartographen, Seite 13 Marcel Steller: Hoyerswerda in der DDR – der ideologische Plan, Seite 16 Marcel Steller: Die Stadt im Netz – das Erbe Harry Becks, Seite 18 Magdalena Schaffer: Damerau und die archäologische Kartierung – Spurensuche auf Karten der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Seite 20 Lena Friedek: Nomen est Omen – Von der Bezeichnung unserer Ortschaften, Seite 24 Teil II: Karten und Umgebung Sandra Flöter: Die Region und ihre Identitäten, Seite 27 Nienke Tesselaar: Die Fischteiche der Lausitz, Seite 29 Marcel Steller: Immer auf Achse: Reisen und Verkehrskarten, Seite 32 Marcel Steller: Der Fluchtlinienplan von 1892, Seite 38 Marcel Steller: Der Bebauungsplan von 1907, Seite 40 Sandra Flöter: Wirtschafts- und Landschaftsveränderung in der Region, Seite 44 Teil III: Karten und Vergleich 115 Jahre – ein Vergleich, Seite 46 Die Guteborner Heide, Seite 48 Der Flächennutzungsplan von 1952, Seite 50 Literaturverzeichnis, Seite 52 Abbildungs- und Inventarverzeichnis, Seite 55, What did Hoyerswerda look like during industrialisation? What changes has Lusatia experienced over the last 300 years? Old maps do fascinate many people - they are also increasingly easy accessible digitally. What is often missing to really understand a map is the all-important context. In order to understand the many old maps and plans of the Lusatia region, this publication not only offers a large number of references. It also provides background information on social and cultural history of the region. This research work was compiled in an interdisciplinary framework with many different approaches together with students.:Einleitung Marcel Steller: Woher kommen Karten? Seite 5 Sandra Flöter: Historischer Abriss der Landesaufnahme, Seite 8 Teil I: Karten und Bedeutung Marcel Steller: Kartosemiotik, Seite 10 Marcel Steller: Niederländer in Hoyerswerda – die Schule der Kartographen, Seite 13 Marcel Steller: Hoyerswerda in der DDR – der ideologische Plan, Seite 16 Marcel Steller: Die Stadt im Netz – das Erbe Harry Becks, Seite 18 Magdalena Schaffer: Damerau und die archäologische Kartierung – Spurensuche auf Karten der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Seite 20 Lena Friedek: Nomen est Omen – Von der Bezeichnung unserer Ortschaften, Seite 24 Teil II: Karten und Umgebung Sandra Flöter: Die Region und ihre Identitäten, Seite 27 Nienke Tesselaar: Die Fischteiche der Lausitz, Seite 29 Marcel Steller: Immer auf Achse: Reisen und Verkehrskarten, Seite 32 Marcel Steller: Der Fluchtlinienplan von 1892, Seite 38 Marcel Steller: Der Bebauungsplan von 1907, Seite 40 Sandra Flöter: Wirtschafts- und Landschaftsveränderung in der Region, Seite 44 Teil III: Karten und Vergleich 115 Jahre – ein Vergleich, Seite 46 Die Guteborner Heide, Seite 48 Der Flächennutzungsplan von 1952, Seite 50 Literaturverzeichnis, Seite 52 Abbildungs- und Inventarverzeichnis, Seite 55
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36. Quo vadis - Europäische (theoretische) Kartographie und Karto/ Atlassemiotik?
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Wolodtschenko, Alexander and Wolodtschenko, Alexander
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Das Buch beschreibt die Entwicklung der (theoretischen) Kartographie und Kartosemiotik in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts und im 21. Jahrhundert, die Evolutionsprozesse der Karto/ Atlassemiotik, die Bildung einer neuen interdisziplinären Richtung das Atlassing und neuen semiotisch-epistemologischen Disziplinen wie Atlas- und Bildatlassemiotik, Atlasgraphie, Bildatlasgraphie und Bildatlaskunde.:Einführung 1. Kartographie als Wissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert 2. Kartosemiotik und Suche nach einer Alternative 3. Atlanten und Atlaskartographie 4. Semiotik-bezogenes Atlassing und Bildatlassing 5. Zur Karto/Atlasgraphie im 21. Jahrhundert
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37. Potential and Challenges of Harmonizing 40 Years of AVHRR Data: The TIMELINE Experience
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Dech, Stefan, Holzwarth, Stefanie, Asam, Sarah, Andresen, Thorsten, Bachmann, Martin, Boettcher, Martin, Dietz, Andreas, Eisfelder, Christina, Frey, Corinne, Gesell, Gerhard, Gessner, Ursula, Hirner, Andreas, Hofmann, Mathias, Kirches, Grit, Klein, Doris, Klein, Igor, Kraus, Tanja, Krause, Detmar, Plank, Simon Manuel, Popp, Thomas, Reinermann, Sophie, Reiners, Philipp, Rößler, Sebastian, Ruppert, Thomas, Scherbachenko, Alexander, Vignesh, Ranjitha, Wolfmüller, Meinhard, Zwenzner, Hendrik, and Künzer, Claudia
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Europe ,AVHRR ,TIMELINE ,harmonization ,time series analysis ,Science ,ddc:550 ,Earth Observation ,climate related trends ,automatic processing ,ddc:526 - Abstract
Earth Observation satellite data allows for the monitoring of the surface of our planet at predefined intervals covering large areas. However, there is only one medium resolution sensor family in orbit that enables an observation time span of 40 and more years at a daily repeat interval. This is the AVHRR sensor family. If we want to investigate the long-term impacts of climate change on our environment, we can only do so based on data that remains available for several decades. If we then want to investigate processes with respect to climate change, we need very high temporal resolution enabling the generation of long-term time series and the derivation of related statistical parameters such as mean, variability, anomalies, and trends. The challenges to generating a well calibrated and harmonized 40-year-long time series based on AVHRR sensor data flown on 14 different platforms are enormous. However, only extremely thorough pre-processing and harmonization ensures that trends found in the data are real trends and not sensor-related (or other) artefacts. The generation of European-wide time series as a basis for the derivation of a multitude of parameters is therefore an extremely challenging task, the details of which are presented in this paper.
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38. Validation of AVHRR Land Surface Temperature with MODIS and In Situ LST—A TIMELINE Thematic Processor
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Reiners, Philipp, Asam, Sarah, Frey, Corinne, Holzwarth, Stefanie, Bachmann, Martin, Sobrino, Jose, Göttsche, Frank-Michael, Bendix, Jörg, and Kuenzer, Claudia
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AVHRR ,Europe ,validation ,Earth sciences ,MODIS ,TIMELINE ,Science ,ddc:550 ,time series ,Land Surface Temperature ,ddc:526 ,ddc:559 - Abstract
Land Surface Temperature (LST) is an important parameter for tracing the impact of changing climatic conditions on our environment. Describing the interface between long- and shortwave radiation fluxes, as well as between turbulent heat fluxes and the ground heat flux, LST plays a crucial role in the global heat balance. Satellite-derived LST is an indispensable tool for monitoring these changes consistently over large areas and for long time periods. Data from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer) sensors have been available since the early 1980s. In the TIMELINE project, LST is derived for the entire operating period of AVHRR sensors over Europe at a 1 km spatial resolution. In this study, we present the validation results for the TIMELINE AVHRR daytime LST. The validation approach consists of an assessment of the temporal consistency of the AVHRR LST time series, an inter-comparison between AVHRR LST and in situ LST, and a comparison of the AVHRR LST product with concurrent MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) LST. The results indicate the successful derivation of stable LST time series from multi-decadal AVHRR data. The validation results were investigated regarding different LST, TCWV and VA, as well as land cover classes. The comparisons between the TIMELINE LST product and the reference datasets show seasonal and land cover-related patterns. The LST level was found to be the most determinative factor of the error. On average, an absolute deviation of the AVHRR LST by 1.83 K from in situ LST, as well as a difference of 2.34 K from the MODIS product, was observed.
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39. Development of a methodology for real-time retrieving and viewing of spatial data in emergency scenarios
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Alamouri, Ahmed, Hassan, Mohammad, Gerke, Markus, Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, and Lebara KSA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Service (systems architecture) ,Emergency management ,Process (engineering) ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Geography, Planning and Development ,computer.file_format ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,Data science ,ddc:526 ,Task (project management) ,Database ,Synchronization (computer science) ,Emergency ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Key (cryptography) ,Exploration ,Raster graphics ,Client interface ,business ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Spatial analysis ,computer ,Data retrieval - Abstract
Quick response in emergency situations is crucial, because any delay can result in dramatic consequences and potentially human losses. Therefore, many institutions/authorities are relying on development of strategies for emergency management, specially to have a quick response process using modern technologies like unmanned aerial vehicles. A key factor affecting this process is to have a quick geo-situation report of the emergency in real time, which reflects the current emergency situation and supports in right decision-making. Providing such geo-reports is still not an easy task because—in most cases—a priori known spatial data like map data (raster/vector) or geodatabases are outdated, and anyway would not provide an overview on the current situation. Therefore, this paper introduces a management methodology of spatial data focusing on enabling a free access and viewing the data of interest in real time and in situ to support emergency managers. The results of this work are twofold: on the one hand, an automated mechanism for spatial data synchronization and streaming was developed and on the other hand, a spatial data sharing concept was realized using web map tile service. For results assessment, an experimental framework through the joint research project ANKommEn (English acronym: Automated Navigation and Communication for Exploration) was implemented. The assessment procedure was achieved based on specific evaluation criteria like time consumption and performance and showed that the developed methodology can help in overcoming some of existing challenges and addressing the practically relevant questions concerning on the complexity in spatial data sharing and retrieval., Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006360, Technische Universität Braunschweig (1042)
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- 2021
40. A partition-enhanced least-squares collocation approach (PE-LSC)
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Zingerle, P., Pail, R., Willberg, M., Scheinert, M., Institute of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, and Institut Für Planetare Geodäsie, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Covariance function ,Computer science ,Computation ,Minor (linear algebra) ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Collocation (remote sensing) ,ddc:526 ,01 natural sciences ,Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,Gravity field ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Data combination ,Spherical harmonics ,Chain rule ,Covariance ,Least squares collocation (LSC) ,ddc ,Geophysics ,Original Article ,Prediction ,Antarctica ,Algorithm ,Interpolation - Abstract
We present a partition-enhanced least-squares collocation (PE-LSC) which comprises several modifications to the classical LSC method. It is our goal to circumvent various problems of the practical application of LSC. While these investigations are focused on the modeling of the exterior gravity field the elaborated methods can also be used in other applications. One of the main drawbacks and current limitations of LSC is its high computational cost which grows cubically with the number of observation points. A common way to mitigate this problem is to tile the target area into sub-regions and solve each tile individually. This procedure assumes a certain locality of the LSC kernel functions which is generally not given and, therefore, results in fringe effects. To avoid this, it is proposed to localize the LSC kernels such that locality is preserved, and the estimated variances are not notably increased in comparison with the classical LSC method. Using global covariance models involves the calculation of a large number of Legendre polynomials which is usually a time-consuming task. Hence, to accelerate the creation of the covariance matrices, as an intermediate step we pre-calculate the covariance function on a two-dimensional grid of isotropic coordinates. Based on this grid, and under the assumption that the covariances are sufficiently smooth, the final covariance matrices are then obtained by a simple and fast interpolation algorithm. Applying the generalized multi-variate chain rule, also cross-covariance matrices among arbitrary linear spherical harmonic functionals can be obtained by this technique. Together with some further minor alterations these modifications are implemented in the PE-LSC method. The new PE-LSC is tested using selected data sets in Antarctica where altogether more than 800,000 observations are available for processing. In this case, PE-LSC yields a speed-up of computation time by a factor of about 55 (i.e., the computation needs only hours instead of weeks) in comparison with the classical unpartitioned LSC. Likewise, the memory requirement is reduced by a factor of about 360 (i.e., allocating memory in the order of GB instead of TB)., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, Technische Universität München (1025)
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41. Comparisons of CODE and CNES/CLS GPS satellite bias products and applications in Sentinel-3 satellite precise orbit determination
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Duan, Bingbing, Hugentobler, Urs, and Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Sentinel-3A/B ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Undifferenced ambiguity resolution ,Satellite laser ranging ,CODE ,Bias comparison ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,ddc:526 ,Standard deviation ,ddc ,CNES/CLS ,GNSS applications ,Orbit (dynamics) ,Global Positioning System ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Satellite ,Linear combination ,business ,Orbit determination ,Original Article ,Satellite Orbit Determination ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Remote sensing - Abstract
To resolve undifferenced GNSS phase ambiguities, dedicated satellite products are needed, such as satellite orbits, clock offsets and biases. The International GNSS Service CNES/CLS analysis center provides satellite (HMW) Hatch-Melbourne-Wübbena bias and dedicated satellite clock products (including satellite phase bias), while the CODE analysis center provides satellite OSB (observable-specific-bias) and integer clock products. The CNES/CLS GPS satellite HMW bias products are determined by the Hatch-Melbourne-Wübbena (HMW) linear combination and aggregate both code (C1W, C2W) and phase (L1W, L2W) biases. By forming the HMW linear combination of CODE OSB corrections on the same signals, we compare CODE satellite HMW biases to those from CNES/CLS. The fractional part of GPS satellite HMW biases from both analysis centers are very close to each other, with a mean Root-Mean-Square (RMS) of differences of 0.01 wide-lane cycles. A direct comparison of satellite narrow-lane biases is not easily possible since satellite narrow-lane biases are correlated with satellite orbit and clock products, as well as with integer wide-lane ambiguities. Moreover, CNES/CLS provides no satellite narrow-lane biases but incorporates them into satellite clock offsets. Therefore, we compute differences of GPS satellite orbits, clock offsets, integer wide-lane ambiguities and narrow-lane biases (only for CODE products) between CODE and CNES/CLS products. The total difference of these terms for each satellite represents the difference of the narrow-lane bias by subtracting certain integer narrow-lane cycles. We call this total difference “narrow-lane” bias difference. We find that 3% of the narrow-lane biases from these two analysis centers during the experimental time period have differences larger than 0.05 narrow-lane cycles. In fact, this is mainly caused by one Block IIA satellite since satellite clock offsets of the IIA satellite cannot be well determined during eclipsing seasons. To show the application of both types of GPS products, we apply them for Sentinel-3 satellite orbit determination. The wide-lane fixing rates using both products are more than 98%, while the narrow-lane fixing rates are more than 95%. Ambiguity-fixed Sentinel-3 satellite orbits show clear improvement over float solutions. RMS of 6-h orbit overlaps improves by about a factor of two. Also, we observe similar improvements by comparing our Sentinel-3 orbit solutions to the external combined products. Standard deviation value of Satellite Laser Ranging residuals is reduced by more than 10% for Sentinel-3A and more than 15% for Sentinel-3B satellite by fixing ambiguities to integer values., Technische Universität München (1025)
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- 2021
42. Systematic Water Fraction Estimation for a Global and Daily Surface Water Time-Series
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Mayr, Stefan, Klein, Igor, Rutzinger, Martin, and Kuenzer, Claudia
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remote sensing ,MODIS ,landsat ,Science ,probability ,water ,ddc:550 ,subpixel ,earth observation ,Sentinel-2 ,ddc:526 - Abstract
Fresh water is a vital natural resource. Earth observation time-series are well suited to monitor corresponding surface dynamics. The DLR-DFD Global WaterPack (GWP) provides daily information on globally distributed inland surface water based on MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) images at 250 m spatial resolution. Operating on this spatiotemporal level comes with the drawback of moderate spatial resolution, only coarse pixel-based surface water quantification is possible. To enhance the quantitative capabilities of this dataset, we systematically access subpixel information on fractional water coverage. For this, a linear mixture model is employed, using classification probability and pure pixel reference information. Classification probability is derived from relative datapoint (pixel) locations in feature space. Pure water and non-water reference pixels are located by combining spatial and temporal information inherent to the time-series. Subsequently, the model is evaluated for different input sets to determine the optimal configuration for global processing and pixel coverage types. The performance of resulting water fraction estimates is evaluated on the pixel level in 32 regions of interest across the globe, by comparison to higher resolution reference data (Sentinel-2, Landsat 8). Results show that water fraction information is able to improve the product’s performance regarding mixed water/non-water pixels by an average of 11.6% (RMSE). With a Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency of 0.61, the model shows good overall performance. The approach enables the systematic provision of water fraction estimates on a global and daily scale, using only the reflectance and temporal information contained in the input time-series.
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- 2021
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43. Galileo precise orbit determination with optical two-way links (OTWL): a continuous wave laser ranging and time transfer concept
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Marz, Stefan, Schlicht, Anja, Hugentobler, Urs, and Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Original Article ,Galileo ,POD ,Optical two-way link ,Inter-satellite link ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Computer science ,Satellite system ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,ddc:526 ,01 natural sciences ,Clock synchronization ,symbols.namesake ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,Galileo (satellite navigation) ,Time transfer ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Remote sensing ,Ranging ,ddc ,Geophysics ,GNSS applications ,symbols ,Satellite ,Orbit determination - Abstract
In this simulation study we analyze the benefit of ground-space optical two-way links (OTWL) for Galileo precise orbit determination (POD). OTWL is a concept based on continuous wave laser ranging and time transfer with modulated signals from and to ground stations. The measurements are in addition to Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations. We simulate the measurements with regard to 16 Galileo Sensor Stations. In the simulation study we assume that the whole Galileo satellite constellation is equipped with terminals for OTWL. Using OTWL together with Galileo L-band, in comparison with an orbit solution calculated with L-band-only, demonstrates the advantage of combining two ranging techniques with different influences of systematic errors. The two-way link allows a station and satellite clock synchronization. Furthermore, we compare the ground-space concept with the satellite-to-satellite counterpart known as optical two-way inter-satellite links (OISL). The advantage of OTWL is the connection between the satellite system and the solid Earth as well as the possibility to synchronize the satellite clocks and the ground station clocks. The full network, using all three observation types in combination is simulated as well. The possibility to estimate additional solar radiation pressure (SRP) parameters within these combinations is a clear benefit of these additional links. We paid great attention to simulate systematic effects of all observation techniques as realistically as possible. For L-band these are measurement noise, tropospheric delays, phase center variation of receiver and transmitter antennas, constant and variable biases as well as multipath. For optical links we simulated colored and distance-dependent noise, offsets due to the link repeatability and offsets related to the equipment calibration quality. In addition, we added a troposphere error for the OTWL measurements. We discuss the influence on the formal orbit uncertainties and the effects of the systematic errors. Restrictions due to weather conditions are addressed as well. OTWL is synergetic with the other measurement techniques like OISL and can be used for data transfer and communication, respectively., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, Technische Universität München (1025)
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44. Statistical Exploration of SENTINEL-1 Data, Terrain Parameters, and in-situ Data for Estimating the Near-Surface Soil Moisture in a Mediterranean Agroecosystem
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Schönbrodt-Stitt, Sarah, Ahmadian, Nima, Conrad, Christopher, Kurtenbach, Markus, Romano, Nunzio, Bogena, Heye, Vereecken, Harry, Nasta, Paolo, Schönbrodt-Stitt, Sarah, Ahmadian, Nima, Kurtenbach, Marku, Conrad, Christopher, Romano, Nunzio, Bogena, Heye R., Vereecken, Harry, and Nasta, Paolo
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terrain parameters ,Sentinel-1 single-look complex data ,near-surface soil moisture ,Alento hydrological observatory ,Mediterranean environment ,ddc:333.7 ,near-surface soil moisture, Sentinel-1 single-look complex data, SAR backscatters, terrain parameters, Alento hydrological observatory, Mediterranean environment ,SAR backscatters ,Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering ,ddc:526 ,TD1-1066 - Abstract
Reliable near-surface soil moisture (θ) information is crucial for supporting risk assessment of future water usage, particularly considering the vulnerability of agroforestry systems of Mediterranean environments to climate change. We propose a simple empirical model by integrating dual-polarimetric Sentinel-1 (S1) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) C-band single-look complex data and topographic information together with in-situ measurements of θ into a random forest (RF) regression approach (10-fold cross-validation). Firstly, we compare two RF models' estimation performances using either 43 SAR parameters (θNov\(^{SAR}\)) or the combination of 43 SAR and 10 terrain parameters (θNov\(^{SAR+Terrain}\)). Secondly, we analyze the essential parameters in estimating and mapping θ for S1 overpasses twice a day (at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.) in a high spatiotemporal (17 × 17 m; 6 days) resolution. The developed site-specific calibration-dependent model was tested for a short period in November 2018 in a field-scale agroforestry environment belonging to the “Alento” hydrological observatory in southern Italy. Our results show that the combined SAR + terrain model slightly outperforms the SAR-based model (θNov\(^{SAR+Terrain}\) with 0.025 and 0.020 m3 m\(^{−3}\), and 89% compared to θNov\(^{SAR}\) with 0.028 and 0.022 m\(^3\) m\(^{−3}\, and 86% in terms of RMSE, MAE, and R2). The higher explanatory power for θNov\(^{SAR+Terrain}\) is assessed with time-variant SAR phase information-dependent elements of the C2 covariance and Kennaugh matrix (i.e., K1, K6, and K1S) and with local (e.g., altitude above channel network) and compound topographic attributes (e.g., wetness index). Our proposed methodological approach constitutes a simple empirical model aiming at estimating θ for rapid surveys with high accuracy. It emphasizes potentials for further improvement (e.g., higher spatiotemporal coverage of ground-truthing) by identifying differences of SAR measurements between S1 overpasses in the morning and afternoon.
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45. Automated Extraction of Annual Erosion Rates for Arctic Permafrost Coasts Using Sentinel-1, Deep Learning, and Change Vector Analysis
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Marius Philipp, Andreas Dietz, Tobias Ullmann, and Claudia Kuenzer
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change vector analysis ,deep learning ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,synthetic aperture RADAR ,Google Earth Engine ,ddc:526 ,permafrost ,coastal erosion - Abstract
Arctic permafrost coasts become increasingly vulnerable due to environmental drivers such as the reduced sea-ice extent and duration as well as the thawing of permafrost itself. A continuous quantification of the erosion process on large to circum-Arctic scales is required to fully assess the extent and understand the consequences of eroding permafrost coastlines. This study presents a novel approach to quantify annual Arctic coastal erosion and build-up rates based on Sentinel-1 (S1) Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) backscatter data, in combination with Deep Learning (DL) and Change Vector Analysis (CVA). The methodology includes the generation of a high-quality Arctic coastline product via DL, which acted as a reference for quantifying coastal erosion and build-up rates from annual median and standard deviation (sd) backscatter images via CVA. The analysis was applied on ten test sites distributed across the Arctic and covering about 1038 km of coastline. Results revealed maximum erosion rates of up to 160 m for some areas and an average erosion rate of 4.37 m across all test sites within a three-year temporal window from 2017 to 2020. The observed erosion rates within the framework of this study agree with findings published in the previous literature. The proposed methods and data can be applied on large scales and, prospectively, even for the entire Arctic. The generated products may be used for quantifying the loss of frozen ground, estimating the release of stored organic material, and can act as a basis for further related studies in Arctic coastal environments.
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46. Calibrating receiver-type-dependent wide-lane uncalibrated phase delay biases for PPP integer ambiguity resolution
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Cui, Bobin, Li, Pan, Wang, Jungang, Ge, Maorong, Schuh, Harald, and Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Precise point positioning ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Precise Point Positioning ,ddc:526 ,01 natural sciences ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,ddc:550 ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Group delay and phase delay ,media_common ,Ambiguity resolution ,Receiver-type-dependent bias ,business.industry ,Uncalibrated phase delay ,Pseudorange ,Ambiguity ,Noise ,Geophysics ,GNSS applications ,Global Positioning System ,business ,Algorithm - Abstract
Wide-lane (WL) uncalibrated phase delay (UPD) is usually derived from Melbourne–Wübbena (MW) linear combination and is a prerequisite in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) precise point positioning (PPP) ambiguity resolution (AR). MW is a linear combination of pseudorange and phase, and the accuracy is limited by the larger pseudorange noise which is about one hundred times of the carrier phase noise. However, there exist inconsistent pseudorange biases which may have detrimental effect on the WL UPD estimation, and further degrade user-side ambiguity fixing. Currently, only the large part of pseudorange biases, e.g., the differential code bias (DCB), are available and corrected in PPP-AR, while the receiver-type-dependent biases have not yet been considered. Ignoring such kind of bias, which could be up to 20 cm, will cause the ambiguity fixing failure, or even worse, the incorrect ambiguity fixing. In this study, we demonstrate the receiver-type-dependent WL UPD biases and investigate their temporal and spatial stability, and further propose the method to precisely estimate these biases and apply the corrections to improve the user-side PPP-AR. Using a large data set of 1560 GNSS stations during a 30-day period, we demonstrate that the WL UPD deviations among different types of receivers can reach ± 0.3 cycles. It is also shown that such kind of deviations can be calibrated with a precision of about 0.03 cycles for all Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. On the user side, ignoring the receiver-dependent UPD deviation can cause significant positioning error up to 10 cm. By correcting the deviations, the positioning performance can be improved by up to 50%, and the fixing rate can also be improved by 10%. This study demonstrates that for the precise and reliable PPP-AR, the receiver-dependent UPD deviations cannot be ignored and have to be handled., China Scholarship Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004543, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum - GFZ (4217), ftp://geodesy.noaa.gov/cors/rinex/, ftp://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/GNSS/products/mgex/, ftp://ftp.aiub.unibe.ch/CODE/
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- 2021
47. Estimation of absolute GNSS satellite antenna group delay variations based on those of absolute receiver antenna group delays
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Beer, Susanne, Wanninger, Lambert, Heßelbarth, Anja, and Geodätisches Institut, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Quasi-Zenith Satellite System ,Galileo ,business.industry ,Computer science ,GPS ,Pseudorange ,Code-minus-carrier combination ,QZSS ,ddc:526 ,Absolute group delay variations ,GLONASS ,GNSS applications ,Global Positioning System ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Satellite ,Phase center ,BeiDou ,Antenna (radio) ,business ,Remote sensing - Abstract
GNSS satellite and receiving antennas exhibit group delay variations (GDV), which affect code pseudorange measurements. Like antenna phase center variations, which affect phase measurements, they are frequency-dependent and vary with the direction of the transmitted and received signal. GNSS code observations contain the combined contributions of satellite and receiver antennas. If absolute GDV are available for the receiver antennas, absolute satellite GDV can be determined. In 2019, an extensive set of absolute receiver antenna GDV was published and, thus, it became feasible to estimate absolute satellite antenna GDV based on terrestrial observations. We used the absolute GDV of four selected receiver antenna types and observation data of globally distributed reference stations that employ these antenna types to determine absolute GDV for the GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, and QZSS satellite antennas. Besides BeiDou-2 satellites whose GDV are known to reach up to 1.5 m peak-to-peak, the GPS satellites show the largest GDV at frequencies L1 and L5 with up to 0.3 and 0.4 m peak-to-peak, respectively. They also show the largest satellite-to-satellite variations within a constellation. The GDV of GLONASS-M satellites reach up to 25 cm at frequency G1; Galileo satellites exhibit the largest GDV at frequency E6 with up to 20 cm; BeiDou-3 satellites show the largest GDV of around 15 cm at frequencies B1-2 and B3. Frequencies L2 of GPS IIIA, E1 of Galileo FOC, and B2a/B2b of BeiDou-3 satellites are the least affected. Their variations are below 10 cm., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, Technische Universität Dresden (1019)
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48. Quantifying the Response of German Forests to Drought Events via Satellite Imagery
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Philipp, Marius, Wegmann, Martin, and Kübert-Flock, Carina
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vegetation response ,z-score ,time-series ,Science ,harmonic analysis ,drought ,ddc:526 ,scPDSI - Abstract
Forest systems provide crucial ecosystem functions to our environment, such as balancing carbon stocks and influencing the local, regional and global climate. A trend towards an increasing frequency of climate change induced extreme weather events, including drought, is hereby a major challenge for forest management. Within this context, the application of remote sensing data provides a powerful means for fast, operational and inexpensive investigations over large spatial scales and time. This study was dedicated to explore the potential of satellite data in combination with harmonic analyses for quantifying the vegetation response to drought events in German forests. The harmonic modelling method was compared with a z-score standardization approach and correlated against both, meteorological and topographical data. Optical satellite imagery from Landsat and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was used in combination with three commonly applied vegetation indices. Highest correlation scores based on the harmonic modelling technique were computed for the 6th harmonic degree. MODIS imagery in combination with the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) generated hereby best results for measuring spectral response to drought conditions. Strongest correlation between remote sensing data and meteorological measures were observed for soil moisture and the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI). Furthermore, forests regions over sandy soils with pine as the dominant tree type were identified to be particularly vulnerable to drought. In addition, topographical analyses suggested mitigated drought affects along hill slopes. While the proposed approaches provide valuable information about vegetation dynamics as a response to meteorological weather conditions, standardized in-situ measurements over larger spatial scales and related to drought quantification are required for further in-depth quality assessment of the used methods and data.
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49. Erstellung einer interaktiven Kartenapplikation zur Ausstellung „Tabakstadt Dresden“ unter Verwendung historischer Karten
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Burghardt, Dirk, Gröbe, Mathias, Technische Universität Dresden, Figgemeier, Heiko, Burghardt, Dirk, Gröbe, Mathias, Technische Universität Dresden, and Figgemeier, Heiko
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Diese Masterthesis behandelt den Entwicklungsprozess einer interaktiven Kartenapplikation, deren Bereitstellung und Nutzung als Teil einer Museumsausstellung im Stadtmuseum Dresden zum Thema Tabak erfolgt. Der Prozess beinhaltet die Aufbereitung und Geokodierung von historischen Standortdaten, die Georeferenzierung und das Kacheln einer historischen Hintergrundkarte sowie eine detaillierte Gegenüberstellung verschiedener Mapping-Bibliotheken. Als Kernbestandteil der Arbeit folgt schließlich die Beschreibung des Implementierungsprozesses mit Mapbox GL JS und aller wichtigen Bestandteile der Karte. Die gesamte Anwendung wird mit HTML, CSS und JavaScript entwickelt. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, welche Elemente für eine intuitive Bedienung der Benutzeroberfläche durch eine heterogene Personengruppe notwendig sind und wie sich eine Touch-Benutzeroberfläche von einer klassischen Desktopanwendung unterscheidet. Die Einschätzung der zumutbaren Interaktionstiefe ergab, dass das Interaktionslevel auf einem geringen Niveau gehalten werden muss, um eine einfache Bedienbarkeit zu ermöglichen. Die Applikation wurde nach der Entwicklung von einer kleinen Personengruppe evaluiert, wobei eine Beantwortung verschiedener Aufgaben mithilfe der Anwendung und eine Einstufung anhand ihrer Schwierigkeit erfolgte. Dabei ergab sich bei der Mehrheit der Aufgabestellungen eine fast ausschließlich problemlose Bedienbarkeit der Anwendung durch Nutzer aller Altersklassen mit Ausnahme der Altersklasse 70+. Die Evaluation zeigte jedoch Differenzen bei der Interaktion durch Menschen mit unterschiedlichem Vorwissen in Bezug auf interaktive Karten. Die Gegenüberstellung der JavaScript-Bibliotheken Leaflet, Mapbox GL JS und OpenLayers ergab projektbezogen für die Kriterien Visualisierung und Performance ein sehr gutes Abschneiden von Mapbox GL JS. Hier wird eine einfache Programmierung der Karteninhalte und eine ansprechende Darstellung der Kartenelemente ermöglicht.
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50. On the use of smartphones as novel photogrammetric water gauging instruments: Developing tools for crowdsourcing water levels
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Maas, Hans-Gerd, Kersten, Thomas P., Lindenbergh, Roderik C., Technische Universität Dresden, Elias, Melanie, Maas, Hans-Gerd, Kersten, Thomas P., Lindenbergh, Roderik C., Technische Universität Dresden, and Elias, Melanie
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The term global climate change is omnipresent since the beginning of the last decade. Changes in the global climate are associated with an increase in heavy rainfalls that can cause nearly unpredictable flash floods. Consequently, spatio-temporally high-resolution monitoring of rivers becomes increasingly important. Water gauging stations continuously and precisely measure water levels. However, they are rather expensive in purchase and maintenance and are preferably installed at water bodies relevant for water management. Small-scale catchments remain often ungauged. In order to increase the data density of hydrometric monitoring networks and thus to improve the prediction quality of flood events, new, flexible and cost-effective water level measurement technologies are required. They should be oriented towards the accuracy requirements of conventional measurement systems and facilitate the observation of water levels at virtually any time, even at the smallest rivers. A possible solution is the development of a photogrammetric smartphone application (app) for crowdsourcing water levels, which merely requires voluntary users to take pictures of a river section to determine the water level. Today’s smartphones integrate high-resolution cameras, a variety of sensors, powerful processors, and mass storage. However, they are designed for the mass market and use low-cost hardware that cannot comply with the quality of geodetic measurement technology. In order to investigate the potential for mobile measurement applications, research was conducted on the smartphone as a photogrammetric measurement instrument as part of the doctoral project. The studies deal with the geometric stability of smartphone cameras regarding device-internal temperature changes and with the accuracy potential of rotation parameters measured with smartphone sensors. The results show a high, temperature-related variability of the interior orientation parameters, which is why the calibration of the, Der Begriff des globalen Klimawandels ist seit Beginn des letzten Jahrzehnts allgegenwärtig. Die Veränderung des Weltklimas ist mit einer Zunahme von Starkregenereignissen verbunden, die nahezu unvorhersehbare Sturzfluten verursachen können. Folglich gewinnt die raumzeitlich hochaufgelöste Überwachung von Fließgewässern zunehmend an Bedeutung. Pegelmessstationen erfassen kontinuierlich und präzise Wasserstände, sind jedoch in Anschaffung und Wartung sehr teuer und werden vorzugsweise an wasserwirtschaftlich-relevanten Gewässern installiert. Kleinere Gewässer bleiben häufig unbeobachtet. Um die Datendichte hydrometrischer Messnetze zu erhöhen und somit die Vorhersagequalität von Hochwasserereignissen zu verbessern, sind neue, kostengünstige und flexibel einsetzbare Wasserstandsmesstechnologien erforderlich. Diese sollten sich an den Genauigkeitsanforderungen konventioneller Messsysteme orientieren und die Beobachtung von Wasserständen zu praktisch jedem Zeitpunkt, selbst an den kleinsten Flüssen, ermöglichen. Ein Lösungsvorschlag ist die Entwicklung einer photogrammetrischen Smartphone-Anwendung (App) zum Crowdsourcing von Wasserständen mit welcher freiwillige Nutzer lediglich Bilder eines Flussabschnitts aufnehmen müssen, um daraus den Wasserstand zu bestimmen. Heutige Smartphones integrieren hochauflösende Kameras, eine Vielzahl von Sensoren, leistungsfähige Prozessoren und Massenspeicher. Sie sind jedoch für den Massenmarkt konzipiert und verwenden kostengünstige Hardware, die nicht der Qualität geodätischer Messtechnik entsprechen kann. Um das Einsatzpotential in mobilen Messanwendungen zu eruieren, sind Untersuchungen zum Smartphone als photogrammetrisches Messinstrument im Rahmen des Promotionsprojekts durchgeführt worden. Die Studien befassen sich mit der geometrischen Stabilität von Smartphone-Kameras bezüglich geräteinterner Temperaturänderungen und mit dem Genauigkeitspotential von mit Smartphone-Sensoren gemessenen Rotationsparametern. Die Ergebnisse zeige
- Published
- 2020
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