Detection of forest structures from extremely high resolution stereo satellite images.

Using special software, surface structures can be reconstructed from stereo images (photogrammetry or SfM). This is important in the forestry sciences when large areas need to be mapped for tree and stand heights, crown gaps or storm damage. There is already a lot of experience in this area from threatening data and manned aerial photography flights. For this work, a very high quality data set of 400km² multispectral satellite images from the southern Black Forest with a ground resolution of approx. 60cm would be available (Worldview-3, full-stereo). The detection of forest structures from such a dataset would have a high scientific relevance.