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Sentinel-2 Masking CNNs Trained on Physics-Supervised Labels Open

Efrain Padilla-Zepeda, Kevin Alonso, R. de los Reyes, Deni Torres-Román, Avi Putri Pertiwi , et al. · 2025

This article presents a method to improve pixel-level classification of Sentinel-2 imagery by integrating spectral index-based masking with deep learning approaches using 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D convolutional neural networks (CNN1D, CNN2D, and C…

The EnMAP spaceborne imaging spectroscopy mission: Initial scientific results two years after launch Open

Sabine Chabrillat, Saskia Foerster, Karl Segl, Alison Beamish, Maximilian Brell , et al. · 2024

Imaging spectroscopy has been a recognized and established remote sensing technology since the 1980s, mainly using airborne and field-based platforms to identify and quantify key bio- and geo-chemical surface and atmospheric compounds, bas…

Assessment of Enmap Data Quality Through Global Product Validation Activities Open

Maximilian Brell, Luis Guanter, Karl Segl, Sabine Chabrillat, Daniel Scheffler , et al. · 2024

First Nighttime Light Spectra by Satellite—By EnMAP Open

Martin Bachmann, Tobias Storch · 2023

For the first time, nighttime VIS/NIR—SWIR (visible and near-infrared—shortwave infrared) spectra from a satellite mission have been analyzed using the EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) high-resolution imaging spectrometer…

First Nighttime Light Spectra by Satellite—by EnMAP Open

Martin Bachmann, Tobias Storch · 2023

For the first time VIS/NIR-SWIR (visible and near infrared – shortwave infrared) nighttime spectra of a satellite mission are analyzed, using the EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) high-resolution imaging spectrometer. The …

The EnMAP imaging spectroscopy mission towards operations Open

Tobias Storch, Hans‐Peter Honold, Sabine Chabrillat, Martin Habermeyer, Paul Tucker , et al. · 2023

Vorschau: Chem. Ing. Tech. 5/2023 Open

Seit Vielen Jahren, J. Sauer, Helmut Länger, Malika Freund, R Dittmeyer Tap , et al. · 2023

Multiple Angle Observations Would Benefit Visible Band Remote Sensing Using Night Lights Open

Christopher C. M. Kyba, Martin Aubé, Salvador Bará, Andrea Bertolo, Constantinos A. Bouroussis , et al. · 2022

The spatial and angular emission patterns of artificial and natural light emitted, scattered, and reflected from the Earth at night are far more complex than those for scattered and reflected solar radiation during daytime. In this comment…

Georeferencing Urban Nighttime Lights Imagery Using Street Network Maps Open

Peter Schwind, Tobias Storch · 2022

Astronaut photography acquired from the International Space Station presently is the only available option for free global high-resolution nighttime light (NTL) imagery. Unfortunately, these data are not georeferenced, meaning they cannot …

Analysis-Ready Data from Hyperspectral Sensors—The Design of the EnMAP CARD4L-SR Data Product Open

Martin Bachmann, Kevin Alonso, E. Carmona, Birgit Gerasch, Martin Habermeyer , et al. · 2021

Today, the ground segments of the Landsat and Sentinel missions provide a wealth of well-calibrated, characterized datasets which are already orthorectified and corrected for atmospheric effects. Initiatives such as the CEOS Analysis Ready…

The benefit of multiple angle observations for visible band remote sensing using night lights Open

Christopher C. M. Kyba, Martin Aubé, Salvador Bará, Andrea Bertolo, Constantinos A. Bouroussis , et al. · 2021

Earth and Space Science Open Archive This preprint has been submitted to and is under consideration at Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. ESSOAr is a venue for early communication or feedback before peer review. Data may be pre…

EnMAP - ARD / CARD4L Metadata Open

Martin Bachmann, Peter Schwind, R. de los Reyes, E. Carmona, Tobias Storch · 2021

Cal / Val / DataQC Activities - DESIS, EnMAP, TIMELINE and CCVS Open

Martin Bachmann, E. Carmona, Kevin Alonso, R. de los Reyes, Rupert Müller , et al. · 2021

CLOUD DETECTION FOR NIGHT-TIME PANCHROMATIC VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGERY Open

L. Joachim, Tobias Storch · 2020

Cloud detection for night-time panchromatic visible and near-infrared (VNIR) satellite imagery is typically performed based on synchronized observations in the thermal infrared (TIR). To be independent of TIR and to improve existing algori…

STATUS OF THE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY MISSION ENMAP WITH RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION AND CORRECTION Open

Tobias Storch, Hans‐Peter Honold, Kevin Alonso, Miguel Pato, Martin Mücke , et al. · 2020

The high-resolution imaging spectroscopy remote sensing mission EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program, enmap.org) covers the spectral range from 420 nm to 2450 nm with a spectral sampling distance varying between 4.8 nm and 12.…

EnMAP - Calibration and Validation Activities Open

Kevin Alonso, Martin Bachmann, Andreas Baumgartner, E. Carmona, Sebastian Fischer , et al. · 2020

Optimized Performance Parameters for Nighttime Multispectral Satellite Imagery to Analyze Lightings in Urban Areas Open

Jasper de Meester, Tobias Storch · 2020

Contrary to its daytime counterpart, nighttime visible and near infrared (VIS/NIR) satellite imagery is limited in both spectral and spatial resolution. Nevertheless, the relevance of such systems is unquestioned with applications to, e.g.…

Insights into CODE-DE – Germany’s Copernicus data and exploitation platform Open

Tobias Storch, Christoph Reck, Stefanie Holzwarth, Bert Wiegers, Nico Mandery , et al. · 2019

This article presents and analyses the modular architecture and capabilities of CODE-DE (Copernicus Data and Exploitation Platform – Deutschland, www.code-de.org), the integrated German operational environment for accessing and processing …

EnMAP User Interface - An Overview of EnMAP ground segment services Open

Nicole Pinnel, Uta Heiden, Hubert Asamer, Daniele Dietrich, Helmut Mühle , et al. · 2019

EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) is a future German hyperspectral satellite mission providing high quality hyperspectral image data on a timely and frequent basis. Main objective is to investigate a wide range of ecosyste…

SMILE CORRECTION IN THE ENMAP GROUND SEGMENT PROCESSOR: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS Open

Maximilian Langheinrich, R. Richter, R. de los Reyes, Gintautas Palubinskas, Tobias Storch · 2018

The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) is an upcoming German hyperspectral satellite mission aiming to observe and characterize the Earth’s environment on a global scale. In course of a the development of the EnMAP ground s…

Procedures for DataQC within the EnMAP and DESIS Ground Segments Open

Martin Bachmann, Kevin Alonso, E. Carmona, Daniele Cerra, R. de los Reyes , et al. · 2018

Within this contribution, the procedures for ensuring the data quality within the ground segments of the hyperspectral DESIS and EnMAP missions are presented. \n In addition to the approaches for on-board calibration and instrument monitor…

Earth Observation with the Orbital-Hub Free Flyer Open

Dominik Quantius, Bernd Kaifler, Sander Slijkhuis, Tobias Storch, Oliver Romberg , et al. · 2018

In order to perpetuate the achievements of the International Space Station (ISS), DLR has conducted a thorough Post-ISS concept utilizing expert knowledge in a series of Concurrent Engineering studies. The outcome design, referred to as Or…

AN EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR FAST INTENSITY BASED IMAGE MATCHING BETWEEN OPTICAL AND SAR SATELLITE IMAGERY Open

Peter Fischer, Philipp Schuegraf, Nina Merkle, Tobias Storch · 2018

This paper presents a hybrid evolutionary algorithm for fast intensity based matching between satellite imagery from SAR and very high-resolution (VHR) optical sensor systems. The precise and accurate co-registration of image time series a…

PROCESSING CHAINS FOR DESIS AND ENMAP IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY DATA: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Open

Tobias Storch, Rupert Müller · 2017

The Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) realizes operational processors for DESIS (DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer) and EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) high-resolution imaging spect…

A Satellite-Based Imaging Instrumentation Concept for Hyperspectral Thermal Remote Sensing Open

Thomas Udelhoven, Martin Schlerf, Karl Segl, Kaniska Mallick, Christian Bossung , et al. · 2017

This paper describes the concept of the hyperspectral Earth-observing thermal infrared (TIR) satellite mission HiTeSEM (High-resolution Temperature and Spectral Emissivity Mapping). The scientific goal is to measure specific key variables …

Simulation of EnMAP data using AVIRIS data Open

Peter Fischer, Jakub Bieniarz, Peter Schwind, Tobias Storch · 2017

This contribution focuses on mosaicking of airborne data of AVIRIS (Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer) that is used for various preparatory activities of the spaceborne mission EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program…

TOWARDS FAST MORPHOLOGICAL MOSAICKING OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTI-SPECTRAL PRODUCTS – ON IMPROVEMENTS OF SEAMLINES Open

Tobias Storch, Peter Fischer, Sebastian Fast, Philipp Serr, Thomas Krauß , et al. · 2016

The complex process of fully automatically establishing seamlines for the fast production of high-quality mosaics with high-amount of high-resolution multi-spectral images is detailed and improved in this paper. The algorithm is analyzed a…

TOWARDS FAST MORPHOLOGICAL MOSAICKING OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTI-SPECTRAL PRODUCTS – ON IMPROVEMENTS OF SEAMLINES Open

Tobias Storch, Peter Fischer, Sebastian Fast, Philipp Serr, Thomas Krauß , et al. · 2016

The complex process of fully automatically establishing seamlines for the fast production of high-quality mosaics with high-amount of high-resolution multi-spectral images is detailed and improved in this paper. The algorithm is analyzed a…

Atmospheric Correction in Sentinel-2 Simplified Level 2 Product Prototype Processor: Technical Aspects of Design and Implementation Open

Aliaksei Makarau, Rudolf Richter, Tobias Storch, Peter Reinartz, Luca Galli · 2016

This paper presents the scientific and technical aspects of the Level 2A (atmospheric/topographic correction) for the Sentinel-2 Simplified Level 2 Product Prototype Processor (S2SL2PPP). Design aspects are partly fixed by the ESA as main …

Cross-Sensor Mosaicking - a new approach to fulfill future user demands Open

Peter Fischer, Tobias Storch, Pablo d’Angelo, Sebastian Fast · 2016

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