Dr. Michael Thiel

Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung
+49 (0)931 31-84690
+49 (0)931 31-846900
michael.thiel@uni-wuerzburg.de
Institut für Geographie und Geologie
Oswald-Külpe-Weg 86
97074 Würzburg
Campus Hubland Nord
Gebäude 86
Zimmer 02.005
nach Vereinbarung
seit 09/2012
Mensch-Umland-Beziehungen im Kontext des Klimawandels in Westafrikas
2016 – 2017
Produktionsänderungen in ackerbaulich genutzten Flächen in Zentralasien
2007 - 2013
Promotion im Rahmen des BMWi Finanzierten Projektes „TerraSAR-X urban“. Titel der Dissertation: „Nutzung von Texturinformationen hochaufgelöster SAR-Daten zur Beschreibung von Siedlungsflächen“
2007 - 2013
Klassifikation einfach polarisierter SAR-Daten anhand Texturmaßen
2006 - 2011
Erfassung der Flächenversiegelung für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus Fernerkundungsdaten
seit 2012
Projektleitung für den Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung in den Projekten „WASCAL“, „TelePAtH“ und „WASCAL-DE-Coop"
2016 - 2017
Koordination des von der VolkswagenStiftung finanzierten Verbundprojektes „LaVaCCA“
03/2007 – 07/2011
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung, Universität Würzburg
Mitarbeit in den Projekten „TerraSAR-X urban“ und „Versiegelung2006“
11/2006 - 02/2007
Mitarbeit an der Studie "Satellitengestützte Erfassung der Bodenversiegelung in Bayern" im Auftrag des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Umwelt, Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz (StMUGV) und des Landesamtes für Umwelt
10/1998 - 08/2006
Studium der Angewandten Umweltwissenschaften an der Universität Trier
Hauptfächer: Fernerkundung, Klimatologie
Nebenfächer: Hydrologie, Bodenkunde
GGW
Geographische Gesellschaft Würzburg e.V.
VAD
Verein für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland
Review-Tätigkeiten
Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science, Sensors, Ecological Indicators
AWARD - One Planet Fellowship
Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats "AWARD - One Planet Fellowship"
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Intensity Analysis for Urban Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics Characterization of Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso. In: Land, 12 (1063), 20.. (2023):
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Scientific Evidence from Space — A Review of Spaceborne Remote Sensing Applications at the Science–Policy Interface. In: Remote Sensing, 2023 (15), 940.. (2023):
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Estimation of Aboveground Biomass in Agroforestry Systems over Three Climatic Regions in West Africa Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, ALOS, and GEDI Data. In: Sensors, 23 (349), 18.. (2022):
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Pathways to using remote sensing in crop cultivation and management - the German digital test field AgriSens DEMMIN 4.0. (2022):
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SAR phenology across major West-African land cover types. (2022):
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Environmental Contamination of a Biodiversity Hotspot — Action Needed for Nature Conservation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. In: Sustainability, 14 (14256), 21.. (2022):
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Modelling the spatial distribution of the classification error of remote sensing data in cocoa agroforestry systems. In: Agroforestry Systems, 11.. (2022):
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Water use with cloud computing: prospective for food and water security in smallholder irrigation schemes. (2022):
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Status-quo of selected nationally determined contributions using spaceborne remote sensing – the case of West Africa. (2022):
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Afrikanische Schutzgebiete – Nutzungskonflikte und Gefährdungen. In: Geographische Rundschau, 3, 16-20.. (2022):
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Deforestation in Continental Ecuador with a Focus on Protected Areas. In: Land, 11 (268), 26.. (2022):
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Monitoring von Freiflächeninanspruchnahme und -versiegelung für eine nachhaltige Raumentwicklung in Bayern. In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung - Spatial Research and Planning, 29.. (2021):
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Estimating maize lethal necrosis (MLN) severity in Kenya using multispectral high-resolution data. In: Applied Geomatics. (2021):
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Detecting cocoa plantations in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and their implications on protected areas. In: Ecological Indicators, 129, 13.. (2021):
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Relationship between soil sealing and local to regional climate in Germany. In: Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 10.. (2021):
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Coverage and Rainfall Response of Biological Soil Crusts Using Multi‐Temporal Sentinel‐2 Data in a Central European Temperate Dry Acid Grassland. In: Remote Sensing, 13 (3093), 26.. (2021):
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Africa’s Protected Natural Assets: The importance of conservation areas for prosperous and resilient societies in Africa.. (2021):
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Investigation of Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) severity and cropping systems mapping in agro-ecological maize systems in Bomet, Kenya utilizing RapidEye and Landsat-8 Imagery. In: Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes, 16.. (2020):
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Usage of MODIS NDVI to evaluate the effect of soil and water conservation measures on vegetation in Burkina Faso. In: Land Degradation and Development, 1-13.. (2020):
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Monitoring of the irrigated rice production dynamic in the Kazalinsk region, Kazakhstan, from 1984-2017. In: Central Asian Journal of Water Research, 5 (2), 20-43.. (2019):
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Evaluation of gap-filling methods for Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-Off image for LULC classification in a heterogeneous landscape of West Africa. In: International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21.. (2019):
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Tapping the potential of Landsat archives for the monitoring of irrigated land use development in the lower Syr Darya catchment, Kazakhstan, 1984-2016.. (2018):
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Remote sensing of soil salinity levels in irrigated cotton production systems in the Aral Sea Basin. (2018):
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Soil and Water Conservation in Burkina Faso, West Africa. In: Sustainability, 10 (9), 1-24.. (2018):
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MODIS NDVI trends and fractional land cover change for improved assessments of vegetation degradation in Burkina Faso, West Africa. In: Journal of Arid Enviroments, 153, 66-75.. (2018):
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Monitoring biophysical parameters of irrigated rice production in the lowlands of the Aral Sea Basin from space. (2018):
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Multiscale Remote Sensing to Map the Spatial Distribution and Extent of Cropland in the Sudanian Savanna of West Africa. In: Remote Sensing, 9 (8). (2017):
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Maize Cropping Systems Mapping Using RapidEye Observations in Agro-Ecological Landscapes in Kenya. In: Sensor, 17 (11). (2017):
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Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Land Abandonment in the Lower Region of Amu Darya River. In: Tropentag 2017. (2017):
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High Resolution Mapping of Soil Properties Using Remote Sensing Variables in South-Western Burkina Faso: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Multiple Linear Regression Models. In: Plos one, 12 (1), 1-21.. (2017):
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Peri-urban land use pattern and its relation to land use planning in Ghana, West Africa. In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 165, 280-94.. (2017):
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The use of RapidEye observations to map cropping systems in highly fragmented agro-ecological landscapes in Africa. In: 36th EARSeL Symposium. (2016):
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Analysis of Settlement Expansion and Urban Growth Modelling Using Geoinformation for Assessing Potential Impacts of Urbanization on Climate in Abuja City, Nigeria. In: Remote Sensing, 8 (3), 220.. (2016):
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Maize pest and diseas mapping using RapidEye-based vegetation indices and machine learning methods. In: Aarse 2016. (2016):
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Identification of crop rotation systems in the Sudanian Savanna Zone in West Africa utilizing a multisensor approach. In: SPIE Remote Sensing. (2016):
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Flood risk assessment and mapping in Abidjan district using multi-criteria analysis ({AHP}) model and geoinformation techniques, (cote d’ivoire). In: Geoenvironmental Disasters, 3 (1). (2016):
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Agricultural Land Use and Water Management in Central Asia - Insights into the projects CAWa and LaVaCCA. In: Drylands in Central Asia and Beyond: Insights and Innovations / Central Asian Seminar. Institutre for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. (2016):
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Multi-Temporal Landsat Images and Ancillary Data for Land Use/Cover Change (LULCC) Detection in the Southwest of Burkina Faso, West Africa. In: Remote Sensing, 7 (9), 12076.. (2015):
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Evaluating the sequential masking classification approach for improving crop discrimination in the Sudanian Savanna of West Africa. In: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 118, 380-89.. (2015):
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Regional differentiation in land use patterns and ist implication fo integrated land use planning in Ghana. In: IUFROLE WG Conference. (2015):
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Measuring rural settlement expansion in Uzbekistan using remote sensing to support spatial planning. In: Applied Geography, 62, 29-43.. (2015):
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Land Use/Cover Response to Rainfall Variability: A Comparing Analysis between NDVI and EVI in the Southwest of Burkina Faso. In: Climate, 3 (1), 63-77.. (2014):
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From High Resolution Remote Sensing Classification to Land-scape and Ecosystem Services Modeling in Northern Ghana. In: EARSeL SIG LULC. (2014):
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Integration of Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery for Improving Crop Mapping in Northwestern Benin, West Africa. In: Remote Sensing, 6 (7), 6472-99.. (2014):
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High resolution tree cover mapping in the West Sudanian Savanna based on multi-temporal Landsat data. In: 10th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment. (2014):
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Comparison of Remote Sensing derived LULC in two rural test sites in the Sudanian Savanna Zone. In: Aarse 2014. (2014):
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Nutzung von Texturinformationen hochaufgelöster SAR-Daten zur Beschreibung von Siedlungsflächen. (unpublished PhD dissertation 2013):
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Mapping tree cover change and the forcing drivers in West Africa. In: Global Geospatial Conference / AfricaGIS. (2013):
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Improving Crop Area Estimation in West Africa Using Multiresolution Satellite Data. In: AfricaGIS - Global Geospatial Conference 2013. (2013):
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Improving agricultural land use mapping in West Africa using multi-temporal Landsat and RapidEye data. In: 5th RapidEye Science Archive (RESA) - From the Basics to the Service, Edited by Borg, E., Daedelow, H. and Johnson, R.pages, 57-72.. (2013):
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TanDEM-X mission-new perspectives for the inventory and monitoring of global settlement patterns. In: Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 6 (1). (2012):
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Building detection from single polarized TerraSAR-X Data. In: Proceedings of the SPIE - The international Society for Optical Engineering. (2011):
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Characterization of Land Cover Types in TerraSAR-S Images by Combined Analysis of Speckle Statistics and Intensity Information. In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 49 (6), 1911-25.. (2011):
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Urban Remote Sensing - How Can Earth Observation Support the Sustainable Development of Urban Environments?. In: 15th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society (REAL CORP)pages, 837-47.. (2010):
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Supporting the Sustainable Development of Cities by Means of Earth Observation Techniques. In: Isocarp 2010. (2010):
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Land Cover Classification based on single-polarized VHR SAR images using texture information via speckle analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposiumpages, 1875-78.. (2010):
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Delineation of Urban Footprints From TerraSAR-X Data by Analyzing Speckle Characteristics and Intensity Information. In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48 (2), 905-16.. (2010):
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Estimation of building density using TerraSAR-X-Data. In: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposiumpages, 1936-39.. (2010):
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Large-area assessment of impervious surface based on integrated analysis of single-date Landsat-7 images and geospatial vector data. In: Remote Sensing of Environment, 113 (8), 1678-90.. (2009):
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Monitoring and assessment of urban environments using space-borne earth observation data - selected applications. In: Urban and Regional Data Managementpages, 385-98.. (2009):
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Assessment of urban extend and impervious of Cape Town using TerraSAR-X and Landsat images. In: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. (2009):
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Classification of urban environments with TerraSAR-X and ALOS-PALSAR data. In: Spie 2008. (2008):
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Urban structure analysis of mega city Mexico City using multisensoral remote sensing data. In: Spie Europe Remote Sensing 2008, 1-12.. (2008):
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Analysis of SAR speckle statistics in support of image filtering and interpretation. In: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. (2008):
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Object-oriented detection of urban areas from TerraSAR-X data. In: Proceedings of the International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS), Part B8, Commission VIII. (2008):
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Comparison of ALOS-PALSAR and TerraSAR-X data in terms of detecting settlements – first results. In: Proceedings of the ALOS PI Symposium 2008. (2008):
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Model-based estimation of impervious surface by application of support vector machines. In: Proceedings of the International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS), Part B8, Commission VIII. (2008):
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Urban structure analysis of mega city Mexico City using multi-sensoral remote sensing data. In: Proceedings of the SPIE Europe: Remote Sensing Conference - Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology VIII. (2008):
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Identification of built-up areas using SAR data – A comparison of TerraSAR-X and ALOS PALSAR imagery. In: Proceedings of the SPIE Europe: Remote Sensing Conference - Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XIV. (2008):
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Improvement of Image Segmentation Accuracy based on Multi-Scale Optimization Procedure. In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5 (3), 463-67.. (2008):
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Object oriented detection of settlement areas from Terra SAR-X data. In: Proceedings of the EARSeL Joint Workshop. (2008):
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Versiegelung in Bayern - Ergebnisse einer flächendeckenden satellitenbasierten Untersuchung. (2007):
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Monitoring of Urban Environments with TerraSAR-X Data. In: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. (2007):
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Satellitengestützte Erfassung der Bodenversiegelung in Bayern. In: Broschüre des Bayerischen Landesamts für Umwelt. (2007):