Curriculum Vitae (PDF) - Fernerkundung Jena

M a r c e l U r b a n - C ur r i culum Vitae
PERSONAL DATA
Surname, Given name: Urban, Marcel
Date and place of birth: 31st May in 1983, Bad-Saarow
Marital Status: unmarried
Nationality: German
E-mail address: Marcel.Urban@uni-jena.de
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
01/2011 – present PhD student at the Department of Earth Observation at the Friedrich Schiller University,
Jena Germany
- Topic: Identification of climate change induced modifications in the taiga
tundra transition zone of northern Siberia with earth observation data on
different spatial and temporal scales
06/2012 – 08/2012 German Trainee at ESA – ESRIN in Frascati, Italy
08/2009 – 01/2011 research assistant at the Department of Earth Observation at the Friedrich Schiller
University, Jena Germany
- ESA Data User Element (DUE) Permafrost
11/2007 – 07/2009 research assistant at the Department of Earth Observation at the Friedrich Schiller
University, Jena Germany
- GOFC-GOLD
- Tutorial for students (Image Processing)
05/2007 – 10/2007 research assistant at the Smithsonian Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal,
Virginia, USA
- Analysis of migration behaviour of hoofed mammals with GIS and Remote
Sensing data
- Temporal analysis of vegetation development based on global remote
sensing datasets
12/2006 – 04/2007 research assistant at the Department of Earth Observation at the Friedrich Schiller
University, Jena Germany
- Deforestation Assessment for the pacific island state of Vanuatu between
1990 and 2006 (Vanuatu Carbon Credits Project)
05/2006 – 02/2007 student assistant at the Department of Earth Observation at the Friedrich Schiller
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
University, Jena Germany
- Development of a database for satellite imagery
- Tutorial for students (Image Processing)
2009 – 2010 Master of Science in Geoinformatics (Ø 1.1 - ETCS: A)
M.Sc. Thesis: “Synergistic analysis of coarse resolution vegetation and burned area
products in the Permafrost regions of Russia.” (Ø 1.0 - written in german)
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2007 – 2009 Study of Geoinformatics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (M.Sc.) – Specification:
Remote Sensing
2006 Bachelor of Science in Geography (ECTS: B)
B.Sc. Thesis: “Comparative analysis of global land cover data sets indicating areas of
declining Russian agriculture between 1992 - 2001.” (Ø 1.3 - written in german)
2003 – 2006 Study of Geography at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (B.Sc.) – Specifications:
INTERNSHIPS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES
Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics
2011 ESA Summer School Land Training Course 2011, Krakow, Poland (1 week)
2011 Summer School on Climate and Environmental Change, St. Petersburg, Russia (1 week)
(practical lecture given on data processing in ENVI IDL)
2010 Internship at “Max Planck-Institut Biogeochemie (MPI-BGC)”, Jena (8 weeks)
2009 Field Campaign: Hyperspectral work, Thuringian Forest, Germany
2006 Internship at “Thüringer Landesvermessungsamt”, Erfurt (6 weeks)
2006 Field Campaign: AGRISAR, Demmin, Germany (1 week)
SOCIAL CIVIL SERVICE
2002 – 2003 „Helios Klinikum”, Bad-Saarow
SCHOOLING
2002 Abitur at the „Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium“, Fürstenwalde
MISCELLANEOUS QUALIFICATIONS
Computer literacy: ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, PCI Geomatica, eCognition, ArcGIS, GAMMA RS
Programming Skills: Java, IDL, MATLAB
Word Processing (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
Further education: Workshop 2004 – Science and Applications of Hyperspectral Data (Dipl. Geol. Andreas
Müller, DLR – German Aerospace Center)
Workshop 2008 – Interferometric SAR Processing (Dr. Maurizio Santoro, GAMMA
Remote Sensing AG)
Driving licence: Categories B, ML
Workshop 2009 – Modular Programming using IDL (Dipl.-Inf. Martin Habermeyer,
DLR – German Aerospace Center)
Linguistic proficiency: English: good
French: basic
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PUBLICATION LIST
2012
URBAN, M., M. FORKEL, C. SCHMULLIUS, S. HESE, C. HÜTTICH & M. HEROLD (2012): Identification of
Land Surface Temperature and Albedo Trends in AVHRR Pathfinder data from 1982 to 2005 for
northern Siberia. – International Journal of Remote Sensing. (submitted)
HESE, S., M. VOLTERSEN & M. URBAN (2012): High Resolution Land Cover Mapping and the Arctic
Thermokarst Lake Change Monitoring in the DUE Permafrost Project. In: Borg, E., H.
Daedelow & R. Johnson (Hrsg.): RapidEye Science Archive (RESA): Von Algorithmus zum
Produkt. 4. RESA Workshop. Berlin: GITO, 257-274.
HESE, S. & M. URBAN (2012): Water Body and Tree Line Change Mapping. In: Borg, E., H. Daedelow &
R. Johnson (Hrsg.): RapidEye Science Archive (RESA): Von Algorithmus zum Produkt. 4. RESA
Workshop. Berlin: GITO, 311-319.
2011
URBAN, M., C. SCHMULLIUS, S. HESE & M. HEROLD (2011): Using Coarse Resolution Land Surface
Temperature Time Series Data for Vegetation Analysis in the Taiga Tundra Transition Zone. A
Case Study for Yamal, Krasnoyarsk Kray and Yakutia. – AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco,
California, USA. (oral presentation)
VOLTERSEN, M., M. URBAN, S. HESE & C. SCHMULLIUS (2011): High resolution monitoring of lake
object structure changes in arctic permafrost regions. – AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco,
California, USA. (poster presentation)
2010
URBAN, M., S. HESE, M. HEROLD, S. PÖCKING & C. SCHMULLIUS (2010): Pan-Arctic Land Cover
Mapping and Fire Assessment for the ESA Data User Element Permafrost. – PFG
Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation, 4, 283-293.
URBAN, M., M. HEROLD, S. HESE, S. PÖCKING & C. SCHMULLIUS (2010): Synergistic Analysis of Coarse
Resolution Vegetation and Land Cover Data for Permafrost Monitoring. – Proceedings of the
ESA Living Planet Symposium, 28 June - 2 July 2010, Bergen, Norway.
PÖCKING, S., S. HESE, M. URBAN, M. HEROLD, C. SCHMULLIUS (2010): High Resolution Vegetation and
Water Body Mapping in Arctic Permafrost Regions. – Proceedings of the ESA Living Planet
Symposium, 28 June - 2 July 2010, Bergen, Norway.
2009
URBAN, M., M. HEROLD, C. SCHMULLIUS & S. BARTALEV (2009): Synergistic analysis of global land
cover data sets indicating area of loss in Russians agriculture between 1992 - 2001. - Proceedings
of 33rd ISRSE, 4 - 8 May 2009, Stresa, Italy.
BERGER, C., M. URBAN & M. HEROLD (2009): Accuracy assessment for estimating historical forest area
changes - a REDD case study for pacific island state of Vanuatu. – Proceedings of 33rd ISRSE, 4
- 8 May 2009, Stresa, Italy.
SAMBALE, J., M. HEROLD, R. ECKARDT & M. URBAN (2009): Developing national forest monitoring
capacities for REDD participation of Vanuatu. – Proceedings of 33rd ISRSE, 4 – 8 May 2009,
Stresa, Italy.
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2008
URBAN, M., M. HEROLD, S. BARTALEV & C. SCHMULLIUS (2008): Synergistic analysis of global land
cover data sets indicating areas of loss in Russians agriculture between 1992 – 2001. – Poster
presentation at the EGU General Assembly April 2008, Vienna, Austria.
2007
HEROLD, M., J. SAMBALE, M. LINDNER, M. URBAN & S. WEAVER (2007): Satellite based monitoring of
the national forest resources in the pacific island state of Vanuatu. – Proceedings of the Tri-
National Conference 2007 of the Swiss, Austrian amd German Society for Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing, 19 -21 June 2007, Basel, Switzerland, 319-398.
Jena, 07/09/2012
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