Dr. Wellmann erforscht die Integration von Fernerkundung und Ökologie zur Förderung von Biodiversität und Klimaanpassung in Städten. Sein aktueller Fokus liegt auf naturbasierten Lösungen (wie urbane Grünflächen, Gewässer und grüne Infrastruktur) als Instrumente für resiliente Stadtlandschaften im globalen Wandel. Er entwickelt Methoden zur Messung von Landnutzungsintensität, Vegetationsbedeckung und ökologischen Indikatoren mittels Satellitenbildern und maschinellem Lernen, um Stadtplanern eine evidenzbasierte Grundlage für nachhaltige Entscheidungen zu liefern. Seine Arbeiten adressieren die Frage, wie Städte Biodiversität bewahren und gleichzeitig an Klimaveränderungen angepasst werden können — relevant für Stadtentwicklung, Raumplanung und Umweltbehörden.
🔒 Das System hat 282 mögliche Industrie-Partner gefunden — Firmen, Scores und Begründungen sind nur für eingeloggte Nutzer:innen sichtbar. Anmelden
Dr. rer. nat. Thilo Wellmann
HU-FIS-Profil ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 11/2025 - 10/2030 Projektleitung: Dr. rer. nat. Thilo Wellmann
Remote Sensing · DOI
The status, changes, and disturbances in geomorphological regimes can be regarded as controlling and regulating factors for biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring geomorphology at local, regional, and global scales is not only necessary to conserve geodiversity, but also to preserve biodiversity, as well as to improve biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. Numerous remote sensing (RS) approaches and platforms have been used in the past to enable a cost-effective, increasingly freely available, comprehensive, repetitive, standardized, and objective monitoring of geomorphological characteristics and their traits. This contribution provides a state-of-the-art review for the RS-based monitoring of these characteristics and traits, by presenting examples of aeolian, fluvial, and coastal landforms. Different examples for monitoring geomorphology as a crucial discipline of geodiversity using RS are provided, discussing the implementation of RS technologies such as LiDAR, RADAR, as well as multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensor technologies. Furthermore, data products and RS technologies that could be used in the future for monitoring geomorphology are introduced. The use of spectral traits (ST) and spectral trait variation (STV) approaches with RS enable the status, changes, and disturbances of geomorphic diversity to be monitored. We focus on the requirements for future geomorphology monitoring specifically aimed at overcoming some key limitations of ecological modeling, namely: the implementation and linking of in-situ, close-range, air- and spaceborne RS technologies, geomorphic traits, and data science approaches as crucial components for a better understanding of the geomorphic impacts on complex ecosystems. This paper aims to impart multidimensional geomorphic information obtained by RS for improved utilization in biodiversity monitoring.
Landscape and Urban Planning · DOI
Remote sensing has evolved to become a key tool for various fields of environmental analysis, thus actively informing policy across areas and domains. To evaluate the degree to which remote sensing is contributing to the science of ecologically-oriented urban planning, we carried out a systematic literature review using the SCOPUS database, searching for articles integrating knowledge in urban planning, remote sensing and ecology. We reviewed 186 articles, analysing various issues in urban environments worldwide. Key findings include that the level of integration between the three disciplines is limited, with only 12% of the papers fully integrating ecology, remote sensing and planning while 24% of the studies use specific methods from one domain only. The vast majority of studies is oriented towards contributing to the knowledge base or monitoring the impacts of existing policies. Few studies are directly policy relevant by either contributing to direct issues in planning and making specific design suggestions or evaluations. The accessibility of the scientific findings remains limited, as the majority of journal articles are not open access and proprietary software and data are frequently used. To overcome these issues, we suggest three future avenues for science as well as three potential entry points for remote sensing into applied urban planning. By doing so, remote sensing data could become a vital tool actively contributing to policies, civil engagement and concrete planning measures by providing independent and cost effective environmental analyses.
Ecological Indicators · DOI