Prof. Dr. Barbara Koch
Chair of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems
University of Freiburg
ferninfo@felis.uni-freiburg.de
Ms Professor Dr. Barbara Koch studied Forest Sciences from 1977 to 1982 at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. From 1982 to 1994 she worked as a scientific staff member at the Institute of Land Use Planning and Nature Conservation at the Technical University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich). The main research areas were the use of multispectral optoelectronic airborne scanner data for the detection of forest damage and spectral analysis of vegetation under standardized conditions in the laboratory and field. Her research was interdisciplinary from the start and was carried out in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Chair of Geosciences and Remote Sensing at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, the Institute of Biophysics at the University of Hanover and the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) in Pasadena, USA. This also led to a research stay at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in the United States. In 1984 Ms Koch established a working group on “Remote Sensing and Geo-Information Systems in Forestry”.
Since 2005, she manages the Steinbeis Research Center “FeLis” which transfers scientific knowledge into industry applications.
Ms Koch was Women's Representative of the Faculty, member of the University Budget Committee, Vice-Dean and Dean. As dean, she was responsible for the conversion of the former Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences into the Faculty of Environmental and Natural Resource and had to implement the realignment of teaching and research as part of the expansion of the faculty. At this time, she is Academic Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, board member of the Centre for Renewable Energy, Head of the working group on Education of the University Centre for Sustainability and Transformation and Vice-Chairwoman of the Senate commission. In these roles, she works on the tri-national Science offensive for Environment and Sustainability. As a member of the Steering Committee of the Fraunhofer Research Institutes Freiburg, she is furthermore involved in the development of the cooperation between the Fraunhofer Institut and the University in the area of research and teaching.
Curriculum Vitae
Function at the department
- Head of department
- Teaching
Key activities
- remote sensing
- geomatic
- spatial modelling
- teaching
Curriculum vitae
- 1982 Diploma in Forestry Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
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1988 Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
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1994 Habilitation, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
- 1982-1994 Research Assistant , Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
- Since 1994 Head of the Professorship of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems
- Since 2005 Leader of the FeLis Steinbeis-Transfer Centre http://www.stz-felis.de/english/welcome.html
- 2013-2014 Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg
- Since 2013 Board member of the Centre for Renewable Energy
- Since 2014 Head of the working group on Education of the University Centre for Sustainability and Transformation
- Since 2014 Academic Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg
- Since 2014 Member of Senat der Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
Projects
Publications and presentations
- publications starting in 2000
- ResearchGate
- Google Scholar
Membership of professional bodies
- Member of editorial board of the “Journal of Forest Planning”
- Member of VDI und DIN – Normenausschuss KRdL
- Member of editorial board of “Silva Fennica”
- Member of editorial board of “Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformationssysteme” (until 2008)
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Fraunhofer Research Institutes Freiburg (since 2013)
- Member of the board of FVA (since 2013)
- Member of Deutschen Forstwirtschaftsrates (since 2013)
- Appointed a deputy member of Black Forest National Park (since 2014)
- President of the Council of European Foresters (since 2015)
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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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EU-Commission DG XII
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Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG)
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
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Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Verkehr, Austria
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Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
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Finish Academy of Science
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Swedish Space Agency
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Academy of Finland
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European Journal of Forest Research
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Journal of Applied Ecology
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ISPRS Journal
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Photogrammetrie Fernerkundung und Geoinformation PFG
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European Journal of Forest Research
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International Journal of Remote Sensing
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Swedish National Space Board
Awards
- 2012 awarded by the State of Baden-Württemberg for the innovation prize “Übermorgenmacher”
- 2010 awarded by the University of Freiburg as candidate for the Leibniz Award by the University of Freiburg
- 2009 ERDAS Award for Best Scientfic Paper in Remote Sensing, 2nd place, American Society for Photogrammetrie and Remote Sensing
- 2008 Best Paper Award International Society of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetrie
- 2006 Best Scientific Paper Award International Journal of Remote Sensing
- 1995 awarded by the Faculty of Forest Sciences as candidate for the Alfried-Krupp Award by the Faculty of Forestry, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg
- 1993 awarded for the Bruno H. Schubert Preis for young researchers in environmental sciences