Prof. Dr. Barbara Koch
This site provides personal informations like contact details, involved projects, special subjects and a short CV.
Chair of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems
University of Freiburg
Mailing address: D-79085 Freiburg, Germany Delivery address: Tennenbacherstr. 4, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany Tel.: +49-761-203-3694
ferninfo@felis.uni-freiburg.de
Function at the department
- Head of department
- Teaching
Key activities
- remote sensing
- geomatic
- spatial modelling
- project development and management
- teaching
Curriculum vitae
- 1982 Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Faculty of Forestry
- Master of Forest Sciences
- 1982-1994 Ludwig-Maximilians University and Technical University of Munich, Department of Nature Conservation and Landuse Planning/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit
- Research Assisstant
- Establishment of the remote Sensing and GIS unit of the institute. Installation of remote sensing and GIS courses and lecturing in master courses. Research in the field of remote sensing and GIS applied to environmental topics. Research co-operation with German Space Agency
- 1988 Ph.D. in Remote Sensing
- 1988 Awarded by the Faculty as best dissertation
- 1993 Bruno H. Schubert prize for young scientists
- 1994 Approval of scientific work for habilitation
- 1994 Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences
- Head of the department and chair of Remote Sensing and GIS
- Lecturing in photogrammetry, remote sensing, digital image processing, GIS and environmental impact assessment.
- Development of research in all areas of remote sensing, special focus within the last years development of laser application, participation in and coordination of national and international research projects, supervision of Ph.D. students, management tasks.
- 1994 full professorship Remote Sensing and GIS
- 1995 awarded for the Alfried-Krupp Award by the Faculty
- 2006 Best Scientific Paper Award International Journal of Remote Sensing
- 2008 Best Paper Award International Society of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetrie
- 2009 ERDAS Award for Best Scientfic Paper in Remote Sensing, 2nd place, American Society for Photogrammetrie and Remote Sensing
- 2010 awarded for the Leibniz Award by the University of Freiburg
- 2005 Leader of the Steinbeis Research Center “FeLis”
- Research converted into practical applications
- Adaptation of software to practical applications
Projects
ongoing projects
| Region | Project | Duration & Sponsor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global | GEO-BENE | 2006-2009 EU | Global Earth Observation- Benefit estimation: Now, Next and Emerging |
| Europe | WW-IRIS | 2008-2010 EU | New technologies for optimization of the information basis on wood resources for the wood industry |
| Europe | BEE | 2008-2010 EU | Biomass Energy Euorpe |
| Europe | FlexWood | 2009-2012 EU | Flexible Wood Supply Chain |
| Europe | ForestHype | 2010-2013 DLR | Teilprojekt: Erhebung von Waldschäden und Abschätzung der oberirdischen Biomasse aus Hyperspektraldaten |
completed projects (since 01.01.2000)
| Region | Project | Duration & Sponsor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | Quantitative Methods for Diversity Assessment | 2000-2002 DFG | Quantitative Methods for the Assessment of Diversity. Assessment of Diversity criteria for the ecological evaluation of forest landscapes based on the use of spatial tinformation technology and remote sensing |
| Germany | NATSCAN | 2001-2004 Federal Ministry of Research & Association of German Engineers | Development of algorithms for pattern and 3D-object recognition to extract features of forest stands and single trees in an automatic process |
| Europe | GEOLAND | 2004-2007 EU | Mapping of Forest Biotops in FFH and Natura 2000 Areas based on different Remote Sensing data |
| Europe | NatureRedime | 2005-2007 EU | New Model Supporting Active Behaviour in Environmental Protection Based on Innovative Web Services |
| Europe | VEPS | 2004-2008 EU | Virtual Environmental Planning System |
| Germany | MatchWood | 2005-2008 BMBF | Wertschöpfung durch Prozessoptimierung im Rahmen naturnaher Waldbewirtschaftung |
| Europe | GSE Forest Monitoring | 2005-2008 ESA | Fast Monitoring of Large Forest Areas |
Publications and presentations
- publications starting in 2000