New publication: Influential factors on the quality of LiDAR-based Digital Terrain Models across temperate forest sites
A recently published paper featuring Hooman Latifi from Dept. of Remote Sensing presents a method...
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Remote Sensing and animal movement course: AniMove
Our colleagues Benjamin Leutner and Martin Wegmann (edt. of “Remote Sensing and GIS for...
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New publication: vegetation response to environmental variables in the mountainous forests of Western Himalaya
A recently published paper featuring Hooman Latifi and Thorsten Dahms from Dept. of Remote Sensing...
Read MoreNew publication: Towards an all-in-one sensor for forestry applications?
A recent paper published by Forestry and featuring Dr. Hooman Latifi from Dept. of Remote Sensing presents novel results of estimating most relevant forest inventory attributes from very high resolution stereoscopic satellite...
Read Moreunsupervised classification with R
Here we see three simple ways to perform an unsupervised classification on a raster dataset in R. I will show these approaches, but first we need to load the relevant packages and the actual data. You could use the Landsat data...
Read Moreupdated RStoolbox version
The RStoolbox R package has been updated after some testing in courses and by colleagues. Please update your package using update.packages() or install the RStoolbox again. New functions are: new function `validateMap()` for...
Read MoreChange Vector Analysis explained graphically
We explained in our book “Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists – Using Open Source Software” among other change detection methods also the change vector analysis practically using the rasterCVA() command in...
Read MoreCourse on remote sensing in ecology
The remote sensing course in the Global Change Ecology MSc program started again with the new students. It is again very interesting how spatial data, spectral information and its corresponding techniques are perceived. Highly...
Read MoreUpdate: R spatial handling cheatsheet
We updated our cheatsheet on spatial data handling in R. Beside some minor changes of common raster commands we also added now some of the new RStoolbox commands within a Remote Sensing operations section such as the command for...
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New R package: RStoolbox: Tools for Remote Sensing Data Analysis
We are happy to announce the initial release of our *RStoolbox* package. The package has been...
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