Presentations
- People in need – How satellite data reveal food and nutrition demand, Stefan Lang, CIVIS Global Days, University of Tübingen, Germany, Neue Aula, 25.05.2023.
- Towards a geoprivacy-aware sharing of very high-resolution satellite imagery for humanitarian applications, Getachew Workineh Gella, IEEE GRSS second workshop on Remote Sensing Data Management Technologies in GeoScience 2022 (RSDM-GeoSci 2022), Paris, France, 02.12.2022.
- Spatially Transferable Dwelling Extraction from Multi-Sensor Imagery in IDP/Refugee Settlements: A Meta-Learning Approach, Getachew Workineh Gella, International Symposium on Applied Geoinformatics 2022, Chania, Greece, 14.10.2022.
- R & geospatial data: identifying vulnerable populations at risk, Linda Menk, GeOnG 2022, Chambéry, France, 26.10.2022.
- Role of Emerging Technologies for Humanitarian Response: current advances and prospects of integrating AI with Earth observation?, Getachew Workineh Gella, GeOnG 2022, Chambéry, France, 26.10.2022.
- Earth observation to foster peace building, Stefan Lang, ASPR 40 Years Anniversary Ceremony and Conference, Schlaining, Austria, 05.10.2022.
- Why a session on Hybrid AI? Complementary research approaches in machine learning and the need for a common language to bridge between research domains and user domains, Stefan Lang, GI_Salzburg22, Salzburg, Austria, 06.07.2022.
- Building extraction in the humanitarian context: constraints, challenges and opportunities for hybrid AI experiments from 10+ years of data collection, Yunya Gao and Getachew Workineh Gella, GI_Salzburg22, Salzburg, Austria, 06.07.2022.
- Assessing the Influences of Band Selection and Pretrained Weights on Semantic-Segmentation-Based Refugee Dwelling Extraction from Satellite Imagery, Yunya Gao, AGILE 2022, Vilnius, Lithuania, 16.06.2022.
- Explainable AI for Humanitarian Action, Stefan Lang and Dirk Tiede, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA), Salzburg, Austria, 22.04.2022.
- Big data and humanitarian mapping, Stefan Lang, Afro-Asian Institute, public seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 20.1.2022.
- Geospatial and EO-based technology for humanitarian action, Stefan Lang, MSF Open Board Meeting, 27.10.2021.
- Mask R-CNN-Based Building Extraction from Satellite Data in Humanitarian Action, Dirk Tiede, ESRI User Conference 2021: GIScience session, online, 12.7.-15.7.2021.
- Suggestions on the Selection of Satellite Imagery for Future Remote Sensing-based Humanitarian Applications, Yunya Gao, Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth 2021 – Special Forum on Humanitarian Action, Salzburg, Austria, 08.07.2021.
- Multi-feature Sample Database for enhancing Deep Learning Tasks in Operational Humanitarian Applications, Stefan Lang, Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth 2021 – Special Forum on Humanitarian Action, Salzburg, Austria, 08.07.2021.
- Testing Transferability of Deep Learning-based Dwelling Extraction in Refugee Camps, Gella Getachew Workineh, Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth 2021 – Special Forum on Humanitarian Action, Salzburg, Austria, 08.07.2021.
- Extraction of Dwellings of Displaced Persons from VHR Radar Imagery – Current Challenges, Future Perspectives, Andreas Braun, Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth 2021 – Special Forum on Humanitarian Action, Salzburg, Austria, 08.07.2021.
- Evaluation of DEMs Derived from Multi-Date Satellite Stereo Imagery for Urban Areas, Lorenz Wendt, Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth 2021 – Special Forum on Humanitarian Action, Salzburg, Austria, 08.07.2021.
- Determining mortality rate by counting graves in satellite images, Lorenz Wendt, Flavio Finger (MSF), MSF Scientific Day 2021, online, 10.06.2021.
- Mask R-CNN based Mapping of Dwellings in Refugee Camps from Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery, Getachew Workineh Gella, 40th EARSeL symposium 2021, Warsaw, Poland, 08.06.2021.
- Mask R-CNN-Based Building Extraction from VHR Satellite Data in Operational Humanitarian Response – an Example Related to Covid-19 Response in Khartoum, Sudan, Dirk Tiede, Esri Imagery and Remote Sensing Educators Summit 2021, online, 29.04.2021.
- Supporting urban sanitation management through the integration of EO-based indicators, Barbara Riedler, EARSeL joint workshop 2021: Earth Observation for sustainable cities and communities, online, 1.4.2021.
- Flood mapping with radar, Andreas Braun, MSF GIS week 2020, 24.09.2020.
- Radar imagery for humanitarian action, Andreas Braun, MSF GIS week 2020, 01.10.2020.
Posters
- Earth Observation Services for Humanitarian Action, Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, S. Lang, P. Füreder, L. Wendt, D. Tiede, A. Braun, B. Schernthanner-Hofer, B. Riedler, A. Alobaidi, K. Herzinger and E. Rogenhofer, 23.-27.05.2022.
- Delineating and understanding urban structures through a multi-data approach, Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, B. Riedler, and S. Lang, 23.-27.05.2022.
- Assessing risk of forcibly displaced persons: Creation of a digital elevation model of the island of Bhasan Char from Sentinel-1 Stripmap products. Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, A. Braun, 23.-27.05.2022.
- Supporting humanitarian missions with ALOS PALSAR-2, Joint PI Meeting of JAXA Earth Observation Missions, online, Andreas Braun, January 2021.
Webinars and Workshops
- PERN Cyberseminar on refugee and internally displaced populations, environmental impacts and climate risks (10.05.2021 – 19.05.2021)
Paper: EO-based environmental impact assessment of camps: a differentiated spatial view using multi-scale satellite imagery
- EARSeL Joint virtual workshop: Earth Observation for sustainable cities and communities (30.03.2021 – 21.04.2021)
Abstract: Supporting urban sanitation management through the integration of EO-based indicators (Riedler B., Nödel J., Siber R., Andriessen N., Strande L., Lang S., 2021, in: Abstract book Earth Observation for sustainable cities and communities )
Recording of presentation: for workshop participants
Events
Master and doctoral theses
PhD Theses
- Zahra Dabiri: Investigation and evaluation of radar and optical Earth observation data in an object-based image analysis framework [09/2021]
- Linda Menk: Uncovering processes – developing transparent data assimilation strategies to understand and reduce integrative risks [in progress]
- Yunya Gao: Applications of deep learning and remote sensing in refugee/internally displaced person (IDP) camp mapping [in progress]
- Getachew Gella: Multi-sensor integration for Earth observation based humanitarian action – issus of uncertainty in the information extraction and delivery process [in progress]
- Barbara Riedler: Integration of Earth observation indicators to support SDGs [in progress]
MSc Theses
- Rene Kaspar: Assess the level of damage due to a flood event using a building footprint [11/2021]
- Stella Ofori-Ampofo: Multi-sensor crop type identification using pixel-set encoders and temporal self-attention [06/2021]
- Sheriff Jimoh: Mapping and monitoring slums using geoinformation technologies [06/2021]
- Frank Willing: Comparison of TempCNN and LightGBM for crop type classification using Sentinel-2 Imagery [01/2021]
- Tobias Kugler: Höhenmodelle as Multi-Date tristereo Pléiades Satellitenbildern (M.Sc. UNIGIS) [10/2021]
- Emmanouil Skourtis: Coherence-based flood mapping in urban areas (M.Sc. UNIGIS) [ in progress]
- Johannes Grünewald: Identification of road damages from Sentinel-1 satellite imagery (B.Sc. University of Tübingen) [in progress]
- Vanessa Streifeneder: Analysing the impact of grey data quality in the training phase of deep-learning models for dwelling extraction in refugee camps [in progress]
- Francesco Collivignarelli: Flood and accessibility monitoring and risk analysis for the humanitarian sector (M.Sc. UNIGIS) [in progress]
- Andreas Reithofer: GIS based flood risk assessment of heavy rainfall events for data scarce regions in the case study of Carrefour, Haiti (M.Sc. UNIGIS) [in progress]
Public outreach
- Girl’s Day 2023 (27.04.2023)
- GIS Day 2022 (16.11.2022): Fernerkundung für humanitäre Einsätze, Lorenz Wendt.
- Christian Doppler Gesellschaft (10.2022): Scientist of the Month (Oktober 2022) – Stefan Lang
- Radio Ö1 Journal-Panorama (05.12.2022): Friedensarbeit vor neuen Herausforderungen
- Radio Ö1 Mittagsjournal (05.05.2022): Satellitenbilder dokumentieren “vergessene Krisen”
- MSF Blog (22 April 2022): Humanitäre Hilfe aus der Vogelperspektive
- Der Standard (15.07.2020): Der Blick aus dem All hilft bei humanitären Einsätzen
- Salzburger Nachrichten (13.07.2020): Satellitendaten unterstützen humanitäre Einsätze
- meinbezirk.at (10.07.2020): Wissenschaft unterstützt humanitäre Hilfe mit Erdbeobachtung
- APA (08.07.2020): Erdbeobachtung für humanitäre Hilfe
- APA (08.07.2020): Neues CD-Labor unterstützt Ärzte ohne Grenzen mit Satellitenbildern
- science.orf.at (08.07.2020): Satellitenbilder für humanitäre Zwecke
- studium.at (08.07.2020): Neues CD-Labor unterstützt Ärzte ohne Grenzen mit Satellitenbildern