Schill, Christian
This site provides personal informations like contact details, involved projects, special subjects and a short CV.
University of Freiburg
Mailing address: D-79085 Freiburg, Germany Delivery address: Tennenbacherstr. 4, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany Tel.: +49-761-203-8645
christian.schill@felis.uni-freiburg.de
Function at the department
- working group "Geoinformatics"
- Head of FELIS' activities in the EuroGEOSS-Project
- Linux system administration (based on gentoo)
- administration of geodatabases, metadata management
Key activities
- Geodata infrastructures
- ISO- and OGC-Standards (web services like WFS, WMS etc, metadata (ISO 19115/ISO 19139, GML)
- geodatabases, especially PostGIS on postgresql
- Open source libraries in the fields of GIS (gdal, ogr, proj.4, geos etc)
- GEOWIKI
- Web server administration (apache, tomcat)
- Content Management System drupal
Curriculum vitae
| 2001-Now | Scientific assistant at the dep. of remote sensing and LIS, UNiversity Freiburg |
| 2008-Now | Employee at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Working group "Lifetime prediction and environmental simualtion) |
| 1998-2001 | Scientific assistant at Institute of Forestry Economics(IFE), Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg. R&D in the fields of Spatial Decision Support |
| 1998-2001 | Parallel to working at IFE scientific assistant at Freiburg Material Research Centre(FMF), Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, working group "Long-term stability of dye-sensitized Solar Cells", Measurement equipment setup, server administration |
| 1998 | Calibration laboratory at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, precision calibration of pv modules |
| 1997 | Diploma thesis "Spectral response of pv modules", Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Diploma in physics |
| WS90 - SS97 | Studies of physics at Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg |
| 1992 -1997 | Hiwi at the computing centre of the university |
Projects
ongoing projects
completed projects
- Geobene (EU 6th framework)
- Naturnet (EU 5th framwwork)
- supporting VEPS
- REGEO
List of publications and presentations
- Karolina Slamova, Rüdiger Glaser, Christian Schill, Stefan Wiesmeier and Michael Köhl, "Mapping atmospheric corrosion in coastal regions: methods and results", J. Photon. Energy 2, 022003 (Jun 29, 2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.2.022003
Steffen Fritz, Linda See, Ian McCallum, Christian Schill, Michael Obersteiner, Marijn van der Velde, Hannes Boettcher, Petr Havlík and Frédéric Achard (2011),Highlighting continued uncertainty in global land cover maps for the user community, Environ. Res. Lett. 6 044005, online available at http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044005/ doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044005
- (2011), Cropland for sub-Saharan Africa: A synergistic approach using five land cover data sets, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L04404, doi:10.1029/2010GL046213.
- McCallum I, Fritz S, Schill C, Perger C, Achard F, Grillmayer R, Koch B, Kraxner F, Obersteiner M, Quinten M (2010). Geo-Wiki.org: Harnessing the power of volunteers, the Internet and Google Earth to collect and validate global spatial information. Earthzine, February 1, Articles, Earth Observation, Technology (1 February 2010).
- Fritz, S., McCallum, I., Schill, C., Perger, C., Grillmayer, R., Achard. F., Kraxner, F. and
Obersteiner, M. (2009) Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land
Cover, Remote Sens. 2009, 1(3), 345-354; doi:10.3390/rs1030345 - Fritz S, McCallum I, Schill C, Perger C, Kraxner F, Obersteiner M (2009). Towards a geospatial Wikipedia (Abstract). Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11:EGU2009-6977.
- Wang S, Leduc S, Wang S, Obersteiner M, Schill C, Koch B (2009). A new thinking for renewable energy model: Remote sensing-based renewable energy model. International Journal of Energy Research, 33(8):778-786 (25 June 2009).
- Ch. Schill, B. Koch, J. Bogdahn, V. Coors (2007). Public Participation Comment Markup Language and WFS 1.1, UDMS Annual 2007, p. 85 - 91
- O. Iercan, Ch. Schill, B. Koch (2007). ISVisualisation: A Web-Based Visualisation Software for Airborne Laser Scanning Data, Poster, AGIT 2007
- Hanewinkel, M., Zhou, W. and Schill, C. (2004). A Neural Network Approach to Identify Forest Stands Susceptible to Wind Damage. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 227-243.
- Mosch M., Frech I., Schill C., Koch B., Stelzl H., Almer A. & Schnabel T. (2004) Tourism information based on visualisation of multimedia geodata – ReGeo. HIS-Konferenz, 2004 Spain, Proceedings: Management Information Systems 2004.Incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing. Brebbia C eds.). WIT Press, Southampton, UK, ISBN 1-85312-728-0, S. 263-273.
- R. Kern*, N. van der Burg, G. Chmiel, J. Ferber, G. Hasenhindl, A. Hinsch, R. Kinderman, J. Kroon, A. Meyer, T. Meyer, R. Niepmann, J. van Roosmalen, C. Schill, P. Sommeling, M. Späth, I. Uhlendorf (2000) "Long-term stability of dye sensitized solar cells for large area power applications", Opto-Electronics Review; 2000; 8 (4); 284-288
- Ferber, J.; Kern, R.; Sastrawan, R.; Schill, C.; Schubert, M.; Hinsch, A.; Kroon, J.; Späth, M.; Roosmalen, J.A.M. van; Meyer, A.; Meyer, T.; Niepmann, R.;Holzbock, J.; Uhlendorf, I. (2000) "Long-Term Stability of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells for Large Area Power Applications", Proceedings IPS-2000, Snowmass/Aspen, CO, USA, 30.7.-4.8.2000
- Rainer Kern*, Jörg Ferber, Andreas Hinsch, Jan Kroon, Andy Meyer, Toby Meyer, Regine Niepmann, John van Roosmalen, Christian Schill, Ingo Uhlendorf (2000) "Investigation of the long-term stability of dye-sensitized solar cells", Proceedings of the IPS 2000 Conference Snowmass/Aspen, 2000
- A. Hinsch*, J.M. Kroon, M. Späth, J.A.M. van Roosmalen, N.J. Bakker, P. Sommeling, N. van der Burg, R. Kinderman, R. Kern, J. Ferber, C. Schill, M. Schubert, A. Meyer, T. Meyer, I. Uhlendorf, J. Holzbock, R. Niepmann (2000) "Long-term stability of dye sensitized solar cells for large area power applications (LOTS-DSC)", Proceedings of the 16th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Glasgow May 2000
- Ch. Schill, K. Bücher, A. Zastrow (1997) "Spectral Response Measurements of PV Modules Using flash Light Illumination And Edge Filters", 14th European Photovoltaic and Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain 30 June-4 July 1997
Talks
- „Geo-wiki.org: Evaluierung und Verbesserung der globalen Landbedeckungskarten mit der Hilfe eines Netzwerks von Freiwilligen" - Vortrag im Rahmen der Votrragsreihe "Moderne Geoinformationssysteme – mehr als Google Maps und GPS" des medien forum freiburg und der Technologietransferstelle der Uni Freiburg. Freiburg, November 2009
