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Sentinels supporting carbon estimates and REDD+ (SenseCarbon)

SenseCarbon develops methods to improve the mapping of REDD+ relevant land use and land cover change processes. In preparation of the upcoming Sentinel missions, SenseCarbon uses existing optical and SAR remote sensing data archives of different spatial and temporal resolutions. Our research preliminary focus on the development of advanced image processing techniques including state-of-the art (i) classification methods, (ii) fusion of X-band + C-Band as well as multispectral + SAR data, and (iii) analysis of SAR time series. Besides the methodological development, the projects aims on the generation of recent and historic land cover for study sites in the Brazilian Amazon

Project Duration: 05/2013 - 04/2016

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Björn Waske

Projects staff: Ron Hagensieker

Project partners:

-       Prof. Dr. Patrick Hostert, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Geomatics Lab

Funding: German Aerospace Centre (DLR) - Project Management Agency (Gefördert durch die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Zuwendungsgeber: Raumfahrt-Agentur des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages unter dem Förderkennzeichen 50 EE 1255).