Does distance bring clarity? – Remotely sensing cities
Event details
| Date | 24.09.2013 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:15 |
| Speaker | Dr Hannes Taubenbock, Earth Observation Center, German Remote Sensing Data Center, Geo-Risks and Civil Security, German Aerospace Center DLR, Wessling (DE) |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
Our world is transforming rapidly into a global urban society. We are facing a multitude of challenges due to the fact that the entire global future population growth will virtually be absorbed by cities. While we are aware of this development, we only know little on the spatial dimensions of urbanization. Earth observation provides us with new spatial data to measure and analyze these ongoing dramatic changes of the urban landscape. Against this background, this seminar will discuss the capabilities and limitations of urban remote sensing to address the pestering challenges of this aspect of global change. The presentation will give an overview from mapping settlement patterns at global to local scales to monitoring of spatial urban growth, analysis of structural urban types and their spatial arrangement in cities to multi-disciplinary studies such as population assessment or risk assessment based on Earth observation data. This presentation aims to start discussions or find innovative ideas on new collaborative capabilities with Earth observation for multi-disciplinary scientific value adding.
Dr Hannes Taubenböck received his diploma degree in geography from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany) in 2004. He joined the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 2005. After receiving the Ph.D. from the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2008, his research activities as post-doc at the University of Würzburg (2007–2010) concentrated on the development of algorithms for information extraction from multi-sensoral remotely sensed data. He is lecturing at the University of Würzburg since 2009. In 2010 he returned as scientific employee to DLR-DFD. Today he heads the team "Modeling and geostatistic methods" in the department Georisks & Civil Security of DLR focusing on the topics ‘urbanization’ and ‘risk’.
Our world is transforming rapidly into a global urban society. We are facing a multitude of challenges due to the fact that the entire global future population growth will virtually be absorbed by cities. While we are aware of this development, we only know little on the spatial dimensions of urbanization. Earth observation provides us with new spatial data to measure and analyze these ongoing dramatic changes of the urban landscape. Against this background, this seminar will discuss the capabilities and limitations of urban remote sensing to address the pestering challenges of this aspect of global change. The presentation will give an overview from mapping settlement patterns at global to local scales to monitoring of spatial urban growth, analysis of structural urban types and their spatial arrangement in cities to multi-disciplinary studies such as population assessment or risk assessment based on Earth observation data. This presentation aims to start discussions or find innovative ideas on new collaborative capabilities with Earth observation for multi-disciplinary scientific value adding.
Dr Hannes Taubenböck received his diploma degree in geography from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany) in 2004. He joined the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 2005. After receiving the Ph.D. from the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2008, his research activities as post-doc at the University of Würzburg (2007–2010) concentrated on the development of algorithms for information extraction from multi-sensoral remotely sensed data. He is lecturing at the University of Würzburg since 2009. In 2010 he returned as scientific employee to DLR-DFD. Today he heads the team "Modeling and geostatistic methods" in the department Georisks & Civil Security of DLR focusing on the topics ‘urbanization’ and ‘risk’.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EESS - IIE
Contact
- Dr Tuia Devis & Prof. François Golay, LASIG