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Development and evaluation of a methodology for qualitative and quantitative assessment of land consumption based on remote sensing

The aim of this study was to develop a nationwide applicable methodology for a qualitative and quantitative assessment of land consumption and its temporal development. By providing this information this methodology should support decision making in favor of a sustainable land development. The main focus was to provide a defined set of indicators relevant in practice. These indicators can be used within the communal and regional planning as well as in the context of land use planning. Additional to the statistical and geo-data indicators also remote sensing derived information are part of the indicator set and provide the possibility of area-wide spatially high resolution data.

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• Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik -Difu-, Projektübergreifende Begleitung REFINA, Berlin (Hrsg.): Auf dem Weg zu einem GoogleEarth fürs Flächensparen (Themenheft). In: Flächenpost - nachhaltiges Flächenmanagement in der Praxis, Berlin: Difu (2009); Nr. 7; 7 S.
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• Esch, T., Klein, D. (2009): Development of a remote sensing-based instrument for sustainable land use management. Bilateral German-Polish REFINA workshop “Research and model projects on suburbanization and land consumption”, Gdansk, Poland
• Esch, T., Taubenböck, H., Roth, A. (2009): Remote sensing applications in support of sustainable urban development. Canada and Germany: a path to energy efficiency. Conference and Trade mission "Energy Efficiency in Buildings & Green Building". Vancouver, Canada
• Klein, D., Esch, T., Himmler, V., Thiel, M., Dech, S. (2009): Assessment of urban extend and impervious of Cape Town using TerraSAR-X and Landsat images. In: Proceedings of IGARSS 2009 conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Esch, T., Klein, D., Himmler, V., Keil, M., Mehl, H., Dech, S. (2009): Modeling of impervious surface in Germany using Landsat images and topographic vector data. In: Proceedings of IGARSS 2009 conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Heldens, W., T. Esch, U. Heiden, A. Müller, S. Dech (2009). Exploring the demands on hyperspectral data products for urban planning: a case study in the Munich region. In: Proceedings of EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy, March 2009, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
• Heldens, W., U. Heiden, M. Bachmann, T. Esch, A. Müller, S. Dech (2009). Scaling issues in validation of abundance maps derived from HyMAP data of an urban area. In: Proceedings of EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy, March 2009, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
• Esch, T., Conrad, C. Schorcht, G., Thiel, M., Wehrmann, T., S. Dech (2008): Model-based estimation of impervious surface by application of support vector machines. In: Proceedings of ISPRS 2008 Congress, Beijing, 03-11 July, pp. 41-45
• Heldens, W., Esch, T., Heiden, U., Dech, S. (2008): Potential of hyperspectral remote sensing for characterization of urban structure in Munich. In: Carsten Jürgens (Ed.), Remote Sensing - New Challenges of High Resolution. Proceedings of the EARSeL Joint Workshop Bochum, March 5-7 2008, CD-ROM. pp 94-103.

Project Management

Mr Prof. Dr. Stefan Dech
University of Würzburg
Geographisches Institut
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
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Mr Dr. Christopher Conrad
The Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg
Geographisches Institut
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

Mr PD Dr. Ralf Klein
The Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg
Geographisches Institut
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
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Mrs Dr. Doris Klein
The Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg
Geographisches Institut
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
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Scientific Co-operation

Mr Christian Breu
PV – Planungsverband Äußerer Wirtschaftsraum München
Uhlandstraße
80336 München
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Mrs Barbara Jahnz
PV – Planungsverband Äußerer Wirtschaftsraum München
Uhlandstraße 5
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Mr Klaus Einig
Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR)
Deichmanns Aue 31-37
53179 Bonn
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Mrs Brigitte Zaspel
Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR)
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Mr Dr. Thomas Esch
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Oberpfaffenhofen
82234 Weßling
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Mr Achim Roth
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum (DFD)
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Mr Prof. Dr. Hermann Kaufmann
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
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14473 Potsdam
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Mr Dr. Karl Segl
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
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Mrs Gertrude Penn-Bressel
Umweltbundesamt (UBA)
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Mr Bertram Wegner
Wegner Stadtplanung
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Mr Dr. Claus Peinemann
Verband Region Rhein-Neckar
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Mr Rolf Hermann
Stadtplanungsamt Dresden (Region Dresden)
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Mr Dr. Oliver Weigel
Stadt Leipzig, Stadtplanungsamt
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Mr Jan Richert
Stadt Leipzig, Stadtplanungsamt
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04092 Leipzig
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