Getting people working on ecosystem functions connected
There’s news for people working on ecosystem functions and their monitoring: the Ecosystem Function Working Group has been launched by the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), and the group is looking to expanding its membership. You...
The GlobDiversity project has kicked off!
The GlobDiversity project has kicked off! The GlobDiversity project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), supports the efforts of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services...
New Research Topic in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Spatially Explicit Conservation
A new Research Topic "Spatially Explicit Conservation: A Bridge Between Disciplines" has just been published in the Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Open Science journal. Submissions are now open and can be done on the Research Topic website...
Remote Sensing Statistics for Animal Movement Data
Explaining animal movement patterns using remotely sensed environmental information and vice versa is increasingly possible with new remote sensing data sets and improved animal tracking technologies. A great visualization of this has been done within AniMove using...
Ecology and Conservation Session at ISRSE 2017
At the ISRSE conference in Pretoria this year a session on ecology and conservation will take place on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, Amethyst Room. Mr. Matthew Breece: SATELLITE DRIVEN DISTRIBUTION MODELS OF ENDANGERED ATLANTIC STURGEON OCCURRENCE IN THE WESTERN MID-ATLANTIC...
CODE-DE – Sentinel data free of charge for everyone
DLR released the CODE-DE platform which allows easy and free of charge access to Sentinel remote sensing data: CODE-DE makes possible free-of-charge, simple access to data from the Sentinel satellites and to information products from the European Copernicus...
workshop on Remote Sensing of Ecosystem Functioning
On the 30th-31st of March 2017, the Geomatics Lab is hosting the Workshop "Remote Sensing of Ecosystem Functioning" , bringing together a group of researchers from GEO BON (Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network) Ecosystem Function Working Group....
Global Water Dynamics Data
EU-JRC released and published a Global Surface Dynamics data set based on over three million satellite scenes between 1984 and 2015. This global map is available in 30-meter resolution. The maps are available for all users, free of charge. It provides information...
Global Urban Footprint data released by DLR
The Global Urban Footprint by DLR (Thomas Esch) has been released and provides a global coverage of urbanized areas. From the DLR website: Currently, more than half of the world’s population are urban dwellers and this number is still rapidly increasing. Since...
WorldCover 2017 conference
The European Space Agency together with GEO, FAO and EU are organising the WorldCover 2017 Conference to be held at ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, on 14-16 March 2017. The WorldCover 2017 Conference aims to provide scientists and users with the opportunity to present...
Martin Wegmann is based at the remote sensing department of Prof. S. Dech, head of DLR-DFD (German Aerospace Data Center) in Würzburg where he leads the Remote Sensing and Biodiversity research topic. Moreover he is an assistant professor at the Global Change Ecology M.Sc. Program and the point of contact for the CEOS Biodiversity initiative, which aims at coordinating space borne activities for biodiversity and conservation related activities. Moreover he is on the steering committee of the Conservation Remote Sensing group, advisory board of the EU BON project and Implementation Committee in GEO BON.
In his courses the theoretical background as well as the practical implementation of remote sensing for biodiversity research and conservation application are taught. The remote sensing data analysis as well as the integration with biodiversity data and the spatial statistics including spatial modelling are mainly done with OpenSource software such as R and GRASS. The majority of courses are done within the Global Change Ecology MSc. program but other courses have been done in Würzburg as well as in different locations in West Africa.
The added value of spatial and temporal variable environmental data sets for corresponding biodiversity modelling approaches are in the focus of his work. Especially the spatial arrangement of landcover and its implication for spatial biodiversity patterns based on remotely sensed information interests him. Most of his work has been done in Europe and Africa.
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- R since 2002
- GRASS since 2002
- Linux since 2002
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