Florian AlbrechtUniversity of Salzburg · Department of Geoinformatics
Florian Albrecht
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Florian Albrecht, MSc, obtained a BSc in Geography and an MSc in Applied Geoinformatics from the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is researcher and project manager at the Department for Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, where he is involved in national and EU-funded research projects on urban planning, natural hazards and aviation. He is specialized in remote sensing and 3D geo-spatial analysis processing chains. His current research focuses on collecting and analysing user requirements, developing Earth Observation derived geographic information products, as well as designing associated validation procedures.
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January 2010 - present
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The EO4GEO Body of Knowledge (BoK) serves as a vocabulary for the domain of geoinformation and earth observation, supporting the annotation of online resources. This paper presents how the BoK is designed, maintained and improved. We discuss how the BoK content can be extended, using the example of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) concepts...
The EO4GEO Body of Knowledge (BoK) forms a structure of concepts and relationships between them, describing the domain of Earth Observation and Geo-Information (EO/GI). Each concept carries a short description, a list of key literature references and a set of associated skills which are used for job profiling and curriculum building. As the EO/GI d...
The alpine infrastructure of trails and huts enables access to the Alps and is an essential element of summer tourism. Mass movements, whose frequency and magnitude are expected to increase due to extreme rainfall events associated with climate change, frequently affect this infrastructure. Alpine associations need to adopt new ways within their ma...
The hiking infrastructure of trails and huts is a strong asset for summer tourism in the AustrianAlps. However, this infrastructure is prone to different types of mass movements, such as rainfall-induced shallow landslides, debris flows and rockfalls, that potentially block the access tomountain huts and hiking routes for weeks or even months. Thus...
Comprehensive and sustainable landslide risk management, including the identification of areas susceptible to landslides, requires responsible organisations to collaborate efficiently. Landslide risk management efforts are often made after major triggering events, such as hazard mitigation after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. There is also a...
With new Earth Observation (EO) and Geoinformation (GI) data sources increasingly becoming available, evermore new skills for data collection, processing, analysis and application are required. They are needed not only from scientists, but also from practitioners working in businesses, public and private EO*GI and related sectors. Aligning the cont...
Timely available landslide information is highly valuable for organizing emergency response activities and infrastructure restoration. The collection process for landslide information can benefit from the use of Earth observation (EO) data because they are capable of sensing potentially affected areas quickly and comprehensively. Challenges for an...
Body of Knowledge, Earth Observation, Geoinformation, Skills definition, Market/User Uptake
A body of knowledge (BoK) is an inventory of knowledge or concepts of a domain that serves as a reference vocabulary for various purposes, such as the development of curricula, the preparation of job descriptions, and the description of occupational profiles. To fulfill its purpose, a BoK needs to be up‐to‐date and ideally widely accepted by academ...
The alpine infrastructure of trails and huts is an essential asset for summer tourism in the Austrian Alps. Every year, around five million people use the trail network for hiking and other mountaineering activities. Mass movements such as shallow landslides, debris flows and rockfalls cause significant damages to the alpine infrastructure and may...
This study introduces the implementation of a citizen centred green space assessment, partly developed through a PhD thesis and earlier work, in an applied research project (“grünOase” - Integrated analysis and assessment of green city oases) in the city of Salzburg, Austria. The thesis developed a methodology that unveils the relation between spat...
New approaches to landslide alert systems are necessary, because the current systems cannot cover all aspects that users in emergency response and infrastructure maintenance need. Here we present a concept for estimating the capability of a landslide alert system based on webcams. Such an alert system could be installed to monitor inaccessible area...
Information about the location, extent and distribution of landslides is most often collected by a combination of ground surveys and image interpretation following landslide triggering events. New technologies and effective services for landslide information retrieval that use more Earth Observation (EO) data at high spatial and temporal resolution...
Durch das Städtewachstum gehen vielfach öffentliche und auch private Grünräume verloren. Grünräume bieten Vorteile für Stadtklima und -ökologie und haben einen Mehrwert für die Freizeitgestaltung der Bevölkerung. Dem Erhalt bestehender und der Schaffung neuer Grün- und Freiflächen kommt in der Stadtplanung eine hohe Bedeutung zu. Das Forschungsproj...
The availability and accessibility of remote sensing (RS) data, cloud processing platforms and provided information products and services has increased the size and diversity of the RS user community. This development also generates a need for validation approaches to assess data quality. Validation approaches employ quality criteria in their asses...
Landslides and debris flows pose a hazard to people and infrastructure in mountainous regions of the Earth. Regional authorities require landslide-monitoring systems that support their landslide risk management. Earth Observation (EO) has proven to be useful in mapping landslides for landslide inventories that enable a better preparedness. Addition...
In this study we introduce a prototype of an interactive web service for semi-automatic landslide analysis using Earth Observation (EO) data. The web service consists of four subservices for (1) landslide mapping, (2) monitoring, (3) validation, and (4) infrastructure analysis to identify landslide-affected infrastructure. In addition, we adapt the...
The project grünOase (Integrated Analysis and Assessment of Green City Oases) supports sustainable planning of urban green spaces. The analysis of visitors’ perception of urban green structures combined with Earth Observation based mapping indicates hotspots of urban green space attractiveness. The inclusion of citizens’ perception in the planning...
Green city oases such as city parks provide various ecological, social, economic and aesthetical benefits for citizens and thereby support human well-being. However, population growth, economic factors and climate change put urban green under pressure. At the same time urban green spaces become more important since the number of people that use gre...
This poster describes a chain of methodologies that was developed to support urban planners to shape the future of urban green spaces according to green space visitors’ needs.
The majority of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Therefore, it is important that cities support human well-being with aesthetical, social, economic and ecological benefits. Urban green spaces within the reach of the citizens, i.e. ‘green city oases’, can significantly contribute to these benefits. Such green spaces have a positive influ...
Landslide mapping benefits from the ever increasing availability of Earth Observation (EO) data resulting from programmes like the Copernicus Sentinel missions and improved infrastructure for data access. However, there arises the need for improved automated landslide information extraction processes from EO data while the dominant method is still...
The issue of data quality (DQ) is of growing importance in Remote Sensing (RS), due to the widespread use of digital services (incl. apps) that exploit remote sensing data. In this position paper a body of experts from the ISPRS Intercommission working group III/IVb “DQ” identifies, categorises and reasons about issues that are considered as crucia...
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der technischen Entwicklung und Konzeption einer Web-GIS-Plattform mit einem interaktiven webbasierten Hangrutschungsservice. Der Service be-steht aus zwei Basismodulen: dem Datenmanagement und dem Daten-Upload. Des Weiteren sind die folgenden vier Prozessierungsmodule implementiert: 1) Kartierung zur semi-automa...
Object-based image analysis (OBIA) has been increasingly used to map geohazards such as landslides on optical satellite images. OBIA shows various advantages over traditional image analysis methods due to its potential for considering various properties of segmentation-derived image objects (spectral, spatial, contextual, and textural) for classifi...
A simple and unsupervised semi-automatic workflow to detect shallow landslides in Alpine areas based on VHR remote sensing data
National and regional authorities and infrastructure maintainers in mountainous regions require accurate knowledge of the location and spatial extent of landslides for hazard and risk management. Information on landslides is often collected by a combination of ground surveying and manual image interpretation following landslide triggering events. H...
Regional authorities and infrastructure maintainers in almost all mountainous regions of the Earth need detailed and up-to-date landslide inventories for hazard and risk management. Landslide inventories usually are compiled through ground surveys and manual image interpretation following landslide triggering events. We developed a web service that...
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts " Land@Slide " (FFG-ASAP) wurde ein Workflow für eine effiziente und systematische UAV-basierte Erfassung von Rutschungen im alpinen Gelände entwickelt und erprobt. Ziel war es, für ausgewählte Rutschungen Orthophotos und digitale Oberflächenmodelle (DOM) zu generieren, um die bestehende Geodatenbank der Rutschungen...
The vast availability of multispectral remote sensing data promotes research in the field of semi-automated landslide mapping. Decision makers and experts require tools that produce reliable landslide maps (1) regardless of input data resolution and area of interest, and (2) without the need for substantial user intervention. Such a tool would allo...
Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags werden die technischen und nutzerzentrierten Analyseschritte zur Entwicklungen eines webbasierten Kartierungsdienstes für Rutschungen basierend auf Fernerkundungs- und Open-Source-Geodaten diskutiert. Der vorgestellte Dienst zielt darauf ab verschiedenste Akteure bei der Aktualisierung, Überwachung und Veröffentlichung von...
Detailed, accurate and complete digital landslide maps are still rarely available. Nevertheless , such maps are essential for recovery and documentation after landslide-triggering events, for landslide monitoring and for hazard and risk mapping. These tasks concern national and federal authorities, owners, maintainers and insurers of infrastructure...
In city marketing, different applications require the evaluation of the visual impression of displays in the urban environment on
people that visit the city. Therefore, this research focuses on the way how visual displays on façades for movie performances are
perceived during a cultural event triggered by city marketing. We describe the different v...
(GE)OBIA (Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis) utilises intelligent tools and algorithms for automatically delineating and labelling geographical objects. OBIA aims at converting traditional and established photo-interpretation tasks into operational use. Moreover, it may help to support the realisation of novel tasks in addressing composite cla...
Remote sensing technology still faces challenges when it comes to monitoring tasks that must be able to stand up to validation from technical, scientific, and practical points of view, in other words, when entering into established, fully operational work-flows. In this paper, we present an approach for delineating and monitoring aggregated spatial...
Before an object-based image classification can be used, one has to evaluate if it qualifies for its designated purpose, because uncertainty occurs in the complex process of object-based image analysis (OBIA). The range of potential OBIA applications produces objects of a variety of conceptualisations that require a flexible validation concept base...
The successful utilization of 3D city models for business processes of urban planning highlights the benefits of 3D city models. This paper presents an overview of 3D GIS analysis capabilities for 3D city models. Based on realistic case studies the range of 3D analyses is highlighted and structured into categories.
This article deals with the notion of ‘appropriateness’ of geospatial information products as a function of spatial qualities and timeliness. A short review is provided on aspects contributing to a better ‘fitness-for-use’ of geospatial information products in a crisis mapping context. As a challenge brought about by increasing spatial resolution a...
This paper comprises a discussion of methods for line error measurement. It focuses on three known methods and suggests a forth one based on the evaluation of equally distributed sample points (EDSP) on line features. It is argued that this method of error measurement does not only provide the extent of error but also indicates systematic displacem...
In natural resource management and landscape analysis we often deal with scale-specific vector representations of geographical objects (patches), originating from different delineation methods with specific levels of generalisation. LIST, an extension for ArcGIS, offers routines for analysing corresponding geographical objects. The tool investigate...
In the near future several new highest resolution, next generation satellites will be launched with panchromatic half-meter
resolution imagery, e.g. WorldView 1 and 2. The ever increasing supply of high-resolution imagery seeks for adequate, i.e.
more effective, more automated and reliable methods for image processing and interpretation. At the int...
Complex real world phenomena require means for reducing and modelling the underlying complexity. They ask for methods and tools to exploit the crucial information intelligently, for addressing dynamics and monitoring constant changes. The project Biotope Information and Management System (BIMS), carried out in a 3654 km² sized area in the region of...