Environmental Remote Sensing

Ongoing Projects

Analysis of built-up areas by means of space- and airborne earth observation – CitySat Austria (Federal Ministry of Economic and Labour Affairs)
Austrian-Korean KOMPSAT Utilisation and Regional Application Testing - AKKURAT (Austrian Space Agency, ASA)
EO-PLAN-GIS -  Earth Observation for Planning and GIS Application (GeoVille Informationssysteme und Datenverarbeitung GmbH)
Analysing urban systems by remote sensing (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research - FTSP)
Vizualization of a Multitemporal, Multisensoral Land Use Classification in an Alpine Region on Example of the Gurk River Basin, Carinthia, Austria (Thesis  - Vienna University, Institute for Geography)

Completed Projects since 1995

Satellite Image Data for the Vienna Woods (Government of Lower Austria, 2002)
Analysis of settlement structures based on a satellite mosaic of Austria (Thesis J. WEICHSELBAUM - University of Vienna, 2001-2002)
Supervised Multispectral Classification: The Multilayer Perceptron versus the Maximum Likelihood Classifier ( PhD Thesis  - University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, 1996-2001)
Moland-Change Belgrade: Monitoring Land Use Change by Remote Sensing in the Belgrade Region (Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Space Applications Institute, 2001)
Provision of Satellite Image Data for Mobile Radio Network Planning (Connect Austria - Telecommunication Company)
Object-oriented classification of land use in urban areas applying very high resolution satellite data (PhD Thesis - Technical University Vienna, 1997-2001)
Remote Sensing Application and GIS-Integration for Monitoring Urban Development - FIESTA (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport, 1999-2001)
Monitoring of Gravel Pits (Provincial Government of Upper Austria, 2000-2001)
Applied Remote Sensing and GIS Integration for Catchment Model Parameterization (ARSGISIP) (EC-DGXII, 1998-2000)
City SAT (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Space Applications Institute, 2000)
Modelling Urban Evolution by Means of Celluar Automata; A Case Study for the City of Vienna (Thesis - Technical University Vienna, 1999-2000)
Inventory of Alpine-Relevant Parameters for an Alpine Monitoring System Using Remote Sensing Data (ALPMON) (EC-DGXII, 1997-1999)
Development of a Consistent Methodology to Derive Land-Cover Information on a European Scale from Remote Sensing for Environmental Modelling (PELCOM) (EC - DG XII, 2000)
Control of Area Based Arable and Forage Subsidies Using Remote Sensing: Comparison of Visual and Computer Based Interpretation Methods (Thesis - Technical University Vienna, 1999)
Use of Adaptive Image Fusion for SAR-Data-Preprocessing for Agricultural Applications (Thesis - Technical University Vienna, 1999)
Monitoring Urban Dynamics Change - MURBANDY: Development of Land Use Change Databases for the Vienna Area Using Remote Sensing Data (Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Space Applications Institute, 1999)
Control of Area Based Arable and Forage Subsidies Using Remote Sensing in Austria (Umweltdata GesmbH, 1998)
Multi-Image Synergistic Satellite Information for the Observation of Nature - MISSION: Use of High Resolution Remote Sensing Data for Regional Planning (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, 1998)
New Methods from Information Technology for Use in Earth Observation Part 2: Application of Multisensoral Earth Observation Data for Environmental Monitoring (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport, 1998)
Data Fusion by Means of Digital Image Processing: a Comparison of Pixel and Feature Based Methods for Fusion of Multisensoral Earth Observation Data (Thesis - Technical University Vienna, 1997)
Updating Digital Land Use Data Bases by Means of Remote Sensing (Thesis - Technical University Vienna, 1997)
The Austrian Land Use Model (Technical University Vienna, 1996)
The Integration of Remote Sensing Data and Ancillary Data (Thesis - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 1995)