UPDATE 12.12.2020: Beech Tree Damage Analysis in the Historical Parks – South-West of Berlin

UPDATE 12.12.2020: First classification within the SPSG park regions of four different damage categories was done in December 2020 using the TensorFlow CNN implementation. The first test area is the landscape park area “Glienicke” in the south-west of Berlin. The area shows a severe degradation of beech trees on some locations and is as of now not open for the...

PD Dr. S. Hese on a temporary Professorship @Martin-Luther- University Halle-Wittenberg

Since first of April I am working on a temporary Professorship position @Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg leading the section “Digital Geography” at the Institute of Geoscience and Geography. At Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena I am right now on a leave and will likely be back for the MSc Geoinformatics courses in Summer 2021 @FSU Jena. This has no direct impact on my research projects...

Phantom 4 Multispectral (RTK)

DJI did it again – the leading manufacturer of compact “of the shelve” drone solutions modified the Phantom 4 RTK and added a fully integrated multispectral camera. Those that are working with these (micro)multispectral camera systems on small UAV platforms couldnt really believe this news. DJI modified the Phantom 4 RTK (that turned out to be a game changer in...

SARS-CoV-2 Cartograms

Update 4.4.2020 Cartogram reprojection using county based shapes and recent data from RKI. These maps are quantile classified – not equal interval classified. This clearly changes somehow the color distribution since the local maxima are not visible anymore. Overall this visualization is graphically very appealing – however it needs more attention for the legend to understand the distribution of values....

Buchen in Not

A short article about our work in the Hainich National Park area on the beech degradation analysis appeared in the Journal of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena “Lichtgedanken” in Edition 7. You can read the PDF version here: http://www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/magazinmedia/Aktuelle+Ausgabe/Lichtgedanken+07+%E2%80%93+Zukunft+ohne+Wachstum-download-1.pdf or the HTML version here: https://www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/Ausgabe_07_Buchen_in_Not-path-140,5.html There will be also an english language version soon.