Treffen des Arbeitskreises Fernerkundung 2026

Vorläufiges Programm

Stand: 08.07.2026

07. bis 08. Oktober – Thünen-Institut, Braunschweig

Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2026
Zeit Programmpunkt
ab 09:00 Registrierung der Teilnehmer/innen Foyer
10:00–12:00 Workshop EnMap-Box Leitung: Andreas Janz, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinSenatssaal
Workshop Cloud-native Remote Sensing Workflows Leitung: Felix Lobert, Thünen-InstitutSenatssaal
12:00–13:15 Mittagessen Kantine
13:15–13:45 Begrüßung / Eröffnung Forum
13:45–15:00 Session 1: EO for Nature based solutions Leitung: Christina Hellmann, Universität Greifswald Forum Christopher Frank, CISS TDI GmbH KIBI: KI-basierte Kartierung geschützter Lebensraumtypen aus Fernerkundungsdaten Frederic Sorbe, Luftbild Umwelt Planung GmbH National Biotope Type Mapping Using Sentinel-1/2 Time Series and Deep Learning Henning Riecken, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR Beyond the Forest Edge: A Land-Cover-Invariant Woody Vegetation Height Model for Bavaria at 1 m Resolution Insa Otte, Universität Würzburg Disentangling ecological signal from sampling bias in species distribution models: a case study for invasion risk mapping of Lantana camara Mirjam Weituschat, Universität Greifswald Evaluating the potential of hyperspectral and multispectral reflectance for the differentiation of Sphagnum species in paludiculture Cody Watzig, Universität Greifswald How to tell your reeds from cattails: Monitoring rewetted fens in North-Eastern Germany from space
15:00–15:30 Pause
15:30–16:45 Session 2: EO for Forest Management and Monitoring Leitung: Lukas Blickensdörfer, Thünen-InstitutForum Felix Wengler, Universität Trier Towards Nationwide Forest Structure Monitoring in Germany: Multitemoral Canopy Height Mapping from Multimodal Earth Observation Data Marvin Müsgen-von den Driesch, Universität Marburg A New Method for Estimating the Relationship Between Vegetation Indices and Tree Growth Using Combined Multispectral and Radar Satellite Data Birgitta Putzenlechner, Universität Göttingen Forest management as a lever for landscape resilience under heat and drought risk Cornelius Senf, Technische Universität München All maps are wrong, but some are useful: Benchmarking European forest disturbance products using a consistent reference database Lisa Mandl, Technische Universität München Mapping Europe’s forest history without data: How Landsat allows for backcasting forest continuity over six decades David Klehr, Universität Trier Hybrid Fusion of Sentinel-2 and Airborne LiDAR Data to Constrain Tree Species Fraction Mapping in Temperate Mixed Forests
16:45–17:00 Pause
17:00–17:30 Session 3: Communication & Dissemination of EO research and products Leitung: Alexander Siegmund, Pädagogische Hochschule HeidelbergForum Christian Plass, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg KI:EO – Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz zur Förderung der Arbeit mit Fernerkundungsdaten im Unterricht Marietheres Hensch, Thünen-Institut Wissenschaft auf LinkedIn – mehr Reichweite für deine Forschung?
17:30–18:30 Postersession Foyer zur Poster-Übersicht
ab 19:00 Abendessen Cafeteria / Foyer / ggf. Kantine



Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2026
Zeit Programmpunkt
9:15–9:45 KeynoteForum Katja Berger, GfZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung Addressing the last mile gap: advanced optical Earth observation for evidence-based policymaking
9:45–10:45 Session 4: EO for a resilient agriculture, part A Leitung: Felix Lobert, Thünen-InstitutForum Jonathan Renkel Universität Halle Assessing the impact of woody landscape elements on crop vitality during extreme drought events in southern Saxony-Anhalt, Central Germany Kevin Fleckenstein, Zentralstelle der Länder für EDV-gestützte Entscheidungshilfen ZEPP Satellitenbasierte Feldfruchtkarten als Modellparameter für operationelle Entscheidungshilfesysteme im Pflanzenschutz Rene Heim, Universität Göttingen Bridging Plant Disease Epidemiology and Earth Observation: Challenges and Opportunities at the Landscape Scale Jonas Schreier, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) Multisensorische Erdbeobachtungsdaten für Resiliente Landwirtschaft: Operationalisierung des Monitoring von Hitze- und Dürrestress in Deutschland und Kenia Abdelaziz Htitiou, Julius Kühn-Institut Assessing Crop Sequence Diversity at Large Scale Using Remote Sensing–Derived Crop Type Maps
10:45–11:15 Pause
11:15–12:15 Session 5: Land use and cover mapping and monitoring Leitung: N. N.Forum Vu Dong Pham, Universität Greifswald Transferring land cover maps to the past using the Landsat archive and image simulation Christobal Tobbin Apedey, Universität Würzburg Enhancing Land Cover Classification in Southern Africa Using Multi-Sensor and Multi-Algorithm Approaches Hauke Itzek, Universität Hildesheim Towards an Independent Regional Validation of Existing Land Use/Land Cover Products in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Preliminary Results from Lower Saxony, Germany Michael Schultz, Universität Tübingen Sentinel‑1 coherence-based damage proxy maps for Ukraine: a support layer for LULUCF and greenhouse-gas accounting in inaccessible territories Tobias Ullmann, Universität Würzburg Comparing the potential of optical and SAR data for flood channel mapping in Northern Oman
12:15–13:30 Mittagessen Kantine
13:30-14:45 Session 6: EO for a resilient agriculture, part B Leitung: N. N.Forum Robert Milewski, GfZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung Regional Multi-Temporal Soil Health Mapping with EnMAP: Large-Scale Soil Property and SOC/Clay Ratio Products for Brandenburg Henrik Bosse, Universität Kassel Forage quantity and quality estimation in alfalfa-grass mixtures using Sentinel-2 data for sustainable feed management Gohar Ghazaryan, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) Building Digital Twins for Agriculture: Opportunities, Challenges and Pathways to Operational Use Swen Meyer, Universität Rostock Multi-Scale Soil Texture Prediction Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data and Machine Learning Anna Köber, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Distinguishing grassland management types based on combined Sentinel-2 and Landsat time series Tom Broeg, Thünen-Institut Monitoring of cropland soil organic carbon changes from space
14:45-15:00 Pause
15:00-16:00 Session 7: EO for planning and monitoring of urban environments Leitung: Jonas Siethoff, Universität BochumForum Agnessa Karapetian, Luftbild Umwelt Planung GmbH EO4Nature: Automated monitoring of urban vegetation, surface sealing and heat stress Rotimi Obateru, Universität Bochum Modelling Urban Landscape Connectivity for Biodiversity Conservation in At-Risk Tropical Cities Shaojuan Xu, Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development Compact or Dispersed? Urban Form Measurement Based on Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data Dennis Sakretz, Universität Halle A remote sensing-based assessment framework for urban green space thermal quality: Combining cooling intensity with a new rural-reference warming metric Valerie Graw, Universität Bochum Tipping Point Detection in Coupled Urban Systems: The Drought–Power Outage Cascade in Ecuador
16:00-16:15 Resumée / Abschluß der Veranstaltung Forum



Poster-Übersicht
Session Poster
Agriculture Johannes Löw, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Cross-scale Crop Phenology Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 Time Series Denis Debroize, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung SatErnte: Intrasaisonale Ertragsprognosen für Winterweizen, Gerste und Raps mittels Ensemble-Learning auf Sentinel-, Boden- und Wetter-Daten Shanmugapriya Selvaraj, Julius Kühn-Institute Leveraging Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical Time Series for Mapping Winter Catch Crops in Germany Tanja Riedel, Julius-Kühn-Institut (JKI), Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung Potential von Sentinel-1 SAR-Zeitreihen zur Ableitung phänologischer Stadien von Wintergetreide
Communication
&
Dissemination
Andreas Janz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin EnMAP-Box: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in QGIS
Forest Lukas Blickensdörfer, Thünen Institut für Betriebswirtschaft Improving Consistency in Multi-Temporal Maps: Tree Species Maps, Hidden Markov Models, and National Forest Inventory Data Jonas Fierke, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Linking vegetation structure, microclimate, and satellite observations across forest–shrub transitions in northern Patagonia Uwe Weinaug, Thünen-Institut Mapping Tree Species Fractions in Germany Using Hyperspectral EnMAP Imagery and Neural Network Regression Jeimy Katherin Feo-Mahecha, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Understanding the wildfire risk landscape: Implications for forest ecosystem conservation in Tolima, Colombia Abhinav Shrestha, Technical University of Munich Characterizing long-term changes in subalpine forests of the Alps using fractional cover data Sören Hese, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Park3D – a LiDAR and Multispectral Monitoring Project for Deciduous Forest Stands in the Park Areas of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg Jonathan Wolf, Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems Validation concept and first results of German-wide forest disturbance maps Alba Viana-Soto, Technical University of Munich Monitoring forest disturbance severity and recovery across Europe using spectral unmixing Katja Kowalski, Technische Universität München Disentangling land use transitions of European forests using Landsat time series
Grassland Daniel Gruschwitz, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Assessing the floristic grassland diversity with stacked species distribution modelling based on environmental and satellite data Lena Krupp, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) Multisource remote sensing for monitoring grassland on peat soils in North-Eastern Germany Lukas Blickensdörfer, Thünen Institut für Betriebswirtschaft Bare soil frequency as a proxy for grassland age: A multidecadal time series approach for temperate agricultural landscapes Tamara Schober, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Streuobstwiesen im Klimawandel: Fernerkundungsbasierte Analyse von Dürreresilienz und Dürresensibilität
LULC Alexander Chuvstvin, University Hildesheim Assessing texture metrics, window size, auxiliary data and machine-learning algorithms for land-cover classification from historical imagery in protected areas Florian Beyer, Landesamt für Geoinformation und Landesvermessung Niedersachsen (LGLN) COP-VED: The Copernicus Change Detection Service for Updating Authortive Geospatial Reference Data in Germany Jonas Siethoff, Ruhr-Universität Bochum High-Temporal-Resolution Segmentation of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining from Sentinel-1: A Machine Learning Benchmark of Temporal-Integration Approaches in the Ecuadorian Amazon Max Zylla, University of Hildsheim, Institute of Geography Anomalies of NDVI as indicator for vegetation changes in the Southeastern Desert Basin of Southern California Farina de Waard, Universität Greifswald Trajectory clustering of annual land cover data from 2000 to 2022 reveals detailed land cover changes on degraded and rewetted peatlands in northern Germany
Nature based
solutions
Sebastian Buchelt, University of Würzburg Data Visualization for climate adaptation within MainPro – Are maps sufficient? Luc Justus Pienkoß, Universität Rostock InSAR-derived mire-breathing indicators constrain degradation-related peatland surface dynamics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Saskia Bacher, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) Object-based mapping of orchard rows and woody vegetation in fruit-growing regions using fused airborne laser scanning and multispectral data Mario Trouillier, Thünen Institute of Farm Economics Annual maps of woody features in the open landscape of Germany based on PlanetScope data Basil Tufail, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Mapping ecosystem sensitivity, climate exposure, resilience, and vulnerability across Germany: a remote-sensing framework
Urban Urs Bösche, rheomi GmbH FLOW-KI: Integrating citizen science, IoT water level sensors and data driven run-off simulation for small-stream monitoring Melanie Stammler, Bundesanstalt für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (BASt) Nationwide, MT-InSAR based Ground Motion Monitoring for Transport Infrastructure in Germany

Wir freuen uns sehr, Sie in Braunschweig begrüßen zu dürfen!

Das Organisationsteam der Jahrestagung 2026 (Stefan Erasmi & Marcel Schwieder)
und das Sprecher-Team des Arbeitskreises Fernerkundung der DGfG

Kontakt: akfe2026@arbeitskreis-fernerkundung.de

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