Publications by our Students

We encourage students getting their research work published. The topic of the Master’s Thesis is taken from the selected specialization track of the student and is co-supervised by two faculty members from the consortium. Peer-reviewed publications are mostly a joint effort of students and supervisors.

CDE PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2026
Twayana, R.; Hadj-Rabah, K. (2026). Assessment of Dual-Polarization Sentinel-1 SAR Data for Improved Wildfire Burned Area Mapping: A Case Study of the Palisades Region, USA. Geomatics 2026, 6, 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/geomatics6020028www
2025
Pasi Fränti, Swaiz Ahmed, Rohit Khati, and Sébastien Lefèvre "Morphology on label images: multilayer approach," Journal of Electronic Imaging 34(6), 063017 (20 November 2025). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.34.6.063017www
Pannoon, P.; Netek, R. Creating Choropleth Maps by Artificial Intelligence—Case Study on ChatGPT-4. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2025, 14, 486. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi14120486www
Gernot Nikolaus, Zahra Dabiri, Vít Voženílek, Eike Behre (2025). Flood susceptibility mapping using AHP and sensitivity analysis in Punjab, Pakistan. gis.Science Ausgabe 4/2025 Kartierung der Hochwasseranfälligkeit unter Verwendung von AHP und Sensitivitätsanalyse in Punjab, Pakistan. DOI: 10.14627/gis.Science.2025.4.5www
K. Zakir, C. Pelletier, L. Chapel and N. Courty, "Leveraging Covariance Representations With Riemannian Resnet for Satellite Image Time Series Classification," IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 2025, pp. 6007-6011, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11242378www
María Rodríguez, Minh-Tan Pham, Martin Sudmanns, Quentin Poterek, Oscar Narvaez, (2025). ENHANCING DEEP LEARNING PERFORMANCE ON BURNED AREA DELINEATION FROM SPOT-6/7 IMAGERY FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 3 - 8 August 2025 • Brisbane, Australiawww
Felix Kröber, Martin Sudmanns, Lorena Abad, Dirk Tiede, (2025). On-demand, semantic EO data cubes – knowledge-based, semantic querying of multimodal data for mesoscale analyses anywhere on Earth, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 228, 2025, Pages 552-565, ISSN 0924-2716, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.07.015www
Nikolaus,g., Z.Dabiri, V.Voženílek, E. Behre (2025). "Assessment of flood susceptibility using AHP and remote sensing-derived products, a case study in Punjab, Pakistan." AGIT conference, July 2-3,2025, Salzburg, Austria
Hadj-Rabah, K., Lang, S., & Brunner-Maresch, B. (2025). Bridging Education and Employment: Career Trajectories of CDE Graduates in Earth Observation and Geoinformatics. in Education Geomedia in post-secondary and higher education https://doi.org/10.25598/agit/2025-25www
Hadj-Rabah, K., Lang, S., Dabiri, Z., and Brunner-Maresch, B.: Structuring Thesis Topics within the Copernicus Master in Digital Earth: Preparing Alumni for Future-Oriented Careers in the Space Industry, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-M-7-2025, 89–96, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-89-2025, 2025www
2024
Brunner-Maresch, B., Dabiri, Z., Lang, S., Maritim, L. C., Turki, M. D., Mulder, M., Henry, J., and Barbosa Ferreira, V.: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master "Copernicus Master in Digital Earth-CDE”; Integrated work experience in geospatial curriculum to enhance graduate employability., EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-20471, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20471, 2024www
Yuhao Nie, Xiatong Li, Quentin Paletta, Max Aragon, Andea Scott, Adam Brandt, Open-source sky image datasets for solar forecasting with deep learning: A comprehensive survey, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 189, Part B, 2024, 113977, ISSN 1364-0321, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113977.www
2023
Oscar David Rafael Narvaez Luces and Minh-Tan Pham and Quentin Poterek and Rémi Braun, "Burnt area extraction from high-resolution satellite images based on anomaly detection", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognitio, MACLEAN workshop of ECML/PKDD 2023, arXiv:2308.13367www
T. Singh, H. Gangloff and M. -T. Pham, "Object Counting from Aerial Remote Sensing Images: Application to Wildlife and Marine Mammals," IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 6580-6583, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282150www
Anna Porti Suarez & Stanislav Popelka (2023) Design Aspects for COVID-19 Dashboards – Evidence from Eye-Tracking Evaluation, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2023.2272078www
F. Kröber, G. F. Garcia, F. Guiotte, F. Delerue, T. Corpetti and S. Lefèvre, "Learning UAV-Based Above-Ground Biomass Regression Models in Sparse Training Data Environments," IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 3322-3325, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281513.www
A. D. Adebayo, C. Pelletier, S. Lang and S. Valero, "Detecting Land Cover Changes between Satellite Image Time Series by Exploiting Self-Supervised Representation Learning Capabilities," IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 7168-7171, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281594.www
Zahra Dabiri, Daniel Hölbling, Sofia Margarita Delgado Balaguera, Gro B. M. Pedersen, Lorena Abad, Benjamin Aubrey Robson (2023). Mapping and Characterising Lava Flows of the Fagradalsfjall Eruptions in Iceland using Sentinel-1 SAR Data. Fringe 2023 - University of Leeds, Leeds, 11-15 Sept. 2023www
Dabiri, Z., Hölbling, D., Delgado-Balaguera, S. M., Pedersen, G. B. M., and Brus, J.: Lava flow mapping using Sentinel-1 SAR time series data: a case study of the Fagradalsfjall eruptions, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-1444, 2023. www
Nicolas, K.M., Drumetz, L., Lefèvre, S., Tiede, D., Bajjouk, T., Burnel, JC. (2023). Deep Learning–Based Bathymetry Mapping from Multispectral Satellite Data Around Europa Island. In: Niculescu, S. (eds) European Spatial Data for Coastal and Marine Remote Sensing. Springer, Cham. www
Brunner-Maresch, B., Dabiri, Z., and Lang, S.: “Copernicus Master in Digital Earth” a role model for an interdisciplinary joint master programme in Earth observation and Geoinformation, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-1655. www
2022
Aybar, C., Ysuhuaylas, L., Loja, J. et al.(2022). CloudSEN12, a global dataset for semantic understanding of cloud and cloud shadow in Sentinel-2. Sci Data 9, 782.www
W.-H. Tseng, H.-Â. Lê, A. Boulch, S. Lefèvre and D. Tiede (2022). CroCo: Cross-Modal Contrastive learning for localization of Earth Observation data. In: International Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISPRS Congress, 2022www
Minha Noor Sultan, Stanislav Popelka,  Josef Strobl, (2022). ET2Spatial – software for georeferencing of eye movement data. Earth Science Informatics, Springer Nature 2022www
Gao, Y., Gella, G. W., and Liu, N., (2022). Assessing the Influences of Band Selection and Pretrained Weights on Semantic-Segmentation-Based Refugee Dwelling Extraction from Satellite Imagery, AGILE GIScience Ser., 3, 36www
He Y, Pu H, Liu N, Zhang Y, Sheng Y. , (2022). An Analysis of Food Accessibility of Mountain Cities in China: A Case Study of Chongqing. Applied Sciences. 2022; 12(7):3236.www
Liu, N., and J. Strobl, (2022). Impact of neighborhood features on housing resale prices in Zhuhai (China) based on an (M)GWR model. Big Earth Datawww
Nusrat, A.; Gabriel, H.F.; e Habiba, U.; Rehman, H.U.; Haider, S.; Ahmad, S.; Shahid, M.; Ahmed Jamal, S.; Ali, J., (2022). Plausible Precipitation Trends over the Large River Basins of Pakistan in Twenty First Century. Atmosphere 2022, 13, 190www
2021
Stefan Lang, Lorenz Wendt, Dirk Tiede, Yunya Gao, Vanessa Streifender, Hira Zafar, Adebowale Adebayo, Gina Schwendemann and Peter Jeremias, (2021). Multi-feature sample database for enhancing deep learning tasks in operational humanitarian applications. GI_Forum 2021, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 209. Special Edition: 12th International Symposium on Digital Earth: Digital Earth for Sustainable Societies. Thomas Blaschke, Josef Strobl, Julia Wegmayr (Eds.). www
Ofori-Ampofo, S.; Pelletier, C.; Lang, S., (2021). Crop Type Mapping from Optical and Radar Time Series Using Attention-Based Deep Learning. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4668www
Liu, Nianhua, (2021). The overview, outcome, and outlook of GIS-based football visualization. 13th GeoMundus Conference 2021, NOVA IMS, Information Management School, Lisboa, Portugal.www
Fernandez-Palomino, C. A., Hattermann, F. F., Krysanova, V., Lobanova, A., Vega-Jácome, F., Lavado, W., Santini, W., Aybar, C., & Bronstert, A. (2021). A novel high-resolution gridded precipitation dataset for Peruvian and Ecuadorian watersheds – development and hydrological evaluation. Journal of Hydrometeorology (published online ahead of print 2021). Retrieved Dec 14, 2021www
Byrne, I., Chan, K., Manrique, E. et al.,(2021). Technical Workflow Development for Integrating Drone Surveys and Entomological Sampling to Characterise Aquatic Larval Habitats of Anopheles funestus in Agricultural Landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, vol. 2021, Article ID 3220244, 14 pages, 2021www
Gidudua, A., Letaru, L., Kulabakob, R.N. (2021). Empirical modeling of chlorophyll a from MODIS satellite imagery for trophic status monitoring of Lake Victoria in East Africa. Journal of Great Lakes Research, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2021, Pages 1209-1218www
2020
Aybar, C. et al., (2020). rgee: An R package for interacting with Google Earth Engine. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(51), 2272www
Other Publications
2021
Liu, Nianhua, Exploring the spatial pattern and transition rule of urban conversion: a case study in Wuhan, ChinaShort paper published and presented in 2021 IGU International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability, online eventwww
Liu, Nianhua, Monitoring Croplands impact on NDVI and NO2 among four towns in Guangdong with Google Earth Engine. Short paper published and presented in Global Youth Summit 2021 of the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate, organized by University of Oxford, online eventwww
Liu, Nianhua, Analyzing the spatial relationship between environmental, socioeconomic factors and dengue fever risk in Shenzhen. Short paper published and presented in International Scientific and Practical Conference ‘Region-2021: Optimal Development Strategy, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, October 21–22, 2021
V. Vanthof, H. McNairn and S. C. Kefauver, “Down to Earth Podcast With Stephanie Tumampos: Reflections on the First Season of the Series [Women in GRSS],” in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 171-173, Sept. 2021www
Simon Donike & Anna Porti Suárez, 2021: Zeitliche und räumliche Darstellung der Intensivbetten-Auslastung in Österreich nach Bundesländern. Erstellt im Rahmen des Master-Studiums „Copernicus Master in Digital Earth“ an der Universität zu Salzburg. Open Data Portal Austriawww
2020
Tumampos, Stephanie: Copernicus space program to boost Earth observation projects in PHL, Business Mirror, February 9, 2020www
Liu, Nianhua, Inversion Modeling of Suspended Sediment Concentration and Chemical Oxygen Demand in Guangdong coastal area. Short paper published and presented inwww
latest update: January 15, 2026