27. July 2022.

EUSAR 2022 Conference from July 25 - 27, 2022 in Leipzig, Germany.

At this year's European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmitt will present two recent theses of students from the University of Applied Sciences Munich. Appropriately, here you can see a high-resolution TerraSAR-X scene of the city center of Leipzig.

The melting of glaciers is one of the symbols of global climate change and so their condition is monitored by science. For example, Vanessa Mix dedicated her bachelor thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Munich to mapping the glacier zones of the Manson Icefield on the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Canada between 2017 and 2020, investigating the advantages and disadvantages of combining optical and radar data for glacier remote sensing. The approach for deriving Manson Icefield's glacier zones is based on a custom-developed index (Glacier Zone Index) using the combination of visual as well as shortwave infrared from Sentinel-2 and the radar channel from the TerraSAR-X satellite. More about this exciting thesis, which was developed in cooperation with the Earth Observation Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), can be found on the website of the Faculty of Geoinformation at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Martin Kufer dealt with forest structures in the Bavarian Forest in his bachelor thesis. Based on polarimetric L-band data from the Japanese satellite SAR sensor ALOS-PALSAR 2 he performed a classification of the forest structures. The aim was to derive the attributes tree species, tree height, tree canopy volume and tree canopy initial height from the Kennaugh elements with the help of LIDAR reference data from previous projects of the Munich University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Bavarian Forest National Park.