Environmental Remote Sensing

Discuss the role of remote sensing in environmental research and nature conservation, get familiar with the concept of the Nature 4.0 project and it’s study area Marburg Open Forest, the forest are of Marburg University which provides an open space for research and education.

Remote Sensing in a Nutshell

Refresh your knowledge on remote sensing focusing on optical sensors and LiDAR examples and set the ground for the upcoming project work by having a closer look on image preprocessing.

Assignments

Design a project aiming in the computation of a comprehensive image (raster data stack) collection for species prediction, and heterogeneity mapping.

Material and References

The references of the course

Spotlights

The spotlights will focus on topics related to the compilation of a comprehensive image dataset suitable to use as a basis for further environmental data analysis.