Dr. Felix Bachofer

Expertise
Scientific CV & Research projects
Teaching
Field Campaigns
Peer-Reviewed Papers
Publications, Reports and Presentations

• Remote Sensing
• The Urban System
• Digitale Terrain Modelling
• Geophysical Methods
• Location Planning & Network Analysis
• Spatial Python Scripting

• 09/2014 until today - Postdoc at the research project RapidPlanning (BMBF - 01LG1301K) at the Chair of Physical Geography and GIS, University of Tuebingen.
  • Scientific research and project coordination for the RapidPlanning research project (BMBF - 01LG1301K).
  • Detection of housing typologies from remote sensing data.
  • Classification of urban structure types (UST).
  • Field research in DaNang (Vietnam), Kigali (Rwanda) and Asyut (Egypt).

• 10/2013 to 08/2014 - Lecturer for Remote Sensing and GIS at the Department of Geography at the University of Tuebingen.
  • Main emphasis: Teaching at the universities Tuebingen und Hohenheim.
  • Research projects in Tanzania and the UAE.
• 10/2011 to 09/2013 - Research position at the ROCEEH project „The role of culture in early expansions of humans" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  • Landscape reconstruction in the Lake Manyara basin, Tanzania.
  • Geoarchaeological research in the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE.
  • Pre-phase of the RapidPlanning project; urban remote sensing and infrastructure analysis.
• 12/2008 to 09/2011 - Research Associate at the research project eE-Tour (BMWi - 01ME09035) at the Chair of Physical Geography and GIS, University of Tuebingen.
  • GPS movement data analysis, terrain- and location analysis in the context of electric mobility (eE-Tour).
  • Validation of ASTER Global DEMs with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
  • XMAS - Determination of the Mass Balance of Alpine Glaciers with TerraSAR-X data.
  • Monitoring of fallow land in the biosphere reserve Pfaelzerwald with high resolution Quickbird- and LIDAR Data.
  • Spatial competitor analysis for the University Hospital Tübingen (UKT).
• Dissertation: "Remote Sensing in Landscape Reconstruction Applications - Paleo-Landscape Research in a Semiarid Environment in Northern Tanzania"
• Diploma Thesis: "Assessment of impervious surface based upon high resolution remote sensing data and Support Vector Regression" – cooperation with the chair of Geography of the University of Wuerzburg.
• 2005 - 2006
  ERASMUS-exchange with the University of Uppsala (Sweden).
• 2002 - 2008
  Study of Geography at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen. Minor subjects: GIS (University of Stuttgart), Geology and Politics.

Lectures:

• Interpretation of maps and aerial images, statistics (Nuertingen-Geislingen University, ST 2016, ST 2017)
• GEO34: Remote Sensing (University of Tübingen, WT 2013/14)
• Application of remote sensing data and GIS for landscape ecology (University of Hohenheim, WT 2013/14)

Courses:

• GEO87: Applied Remote Sensing (University of Tübingen, ST 2017)
• GEO51: Integrative Research Project „E-Mobility“ (University of Tübingen, WT 10/11)
• GEO34: Exercises „Remote Sensing“ (University of Tübingen, WT 11/12, WT 12/13, WT 14/15)
• GEO51: Integrative Research Project „Remote Sensing“ (University of Tübingen, WT 14/15)
• GEO51: Integrative Research Project “Geophysical Methods” (University of Tübingen, WT 15/16)

Compact courses / Workshops:

• Flood Mapping with SNAP (Hue University Vietnam, Dec. 2016)
• Introduction to QGIS (Urban Planning Institute DaNang, Vietnam; March 2016)
• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (University of Tübingen, 12/ 2008, 01/2009, 05/2009, 05/2010 12/2011, 12/2012, 04/2013, 12/2013, 01/2014).
• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems / advanced level (University of Tübingen, 06/2009, 06/2011).
• GPS data collection (University of Tübingen, 05/2009, 04/2010, 05/2011, 05/2012).
• Introduction to OpenSource GIS (University of Tübingen, 06/2010, 01/2013, 01/2014).

Summer Schools:

• Participant at: ESA Advanced Land Training Course. September 2011, Krakow, Poland.
• Lecturer at: “Soil Erosion in the Mediterranean”. July 2010, University of Palermo, Italy.

• 11/2014, 06/2015, 11/2015, 11/2016: Reference data collection for urban remote sensing analysis in Kigali, Rwanda.
• 06/2012, 03/2015, 03/2016, 12/2016: Reference data collection for urban remote sensing analysis in DaNang, Vietnam.
• 08/2015: Geophysical field work in Kurdistan (North-Iraq).
• 03/2011, 02/2012, 11/2012, 03/2014: Field work in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Generation of a DEM with differential - GPS measurement and reference data collection for LULC-classification, geophysical data acquisition and assessment of hydrological parameters.
• 06/2010: Reference data colloection for "Soil Erosion Modelling in the Mediterranean", Sicily, Italy.
• 03/2010, 08/2011, 03/2012, 06/2013, 02/2014: Field work in Tanzania - collecting of reference-data for LULC-classification, geophysical data acquisition, DEM generation and geomorphological process analysis.

• BACHOFER, F. (2017). "Assessment of Building Heights from Pléiades Satellite Imagery for the Nyarugenge Sector, Kigali, Rwanda." Journal of Rwanda, Series D, Vol: 1 (1S): 1-15.
• LOMBARDO, L., BACHOFER, F., CAMA, M., MÄRKER, M. & ROTIGLIANO, E., (2016): Exploiting Maximum Entropy method and ASTER data for assessing debris flow and debris slide susceptibility for the Giampilieri catchment (north-eastern Sicily, Italy). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol: 41 (12): 1776–1789.
• BACHOFER, F.; QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G.; ZWIENER, T.; MAERKER, M.; HOCHSCHILD, V. (2016): Comparative Analysis of Edge Detection Techniques for SAR Images. European Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol: 49: 205-224.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G., HOCHSCHILD, V. & MAERKER, M., (2015): Multisensoral Topsoil Mapping in the Semiarid Lake Manyara Region, Northern Tanzania. Remote Sensing, Vol: 7 (8): 9563-9586.
• QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G.; BACHOFER, F.; MÄRKER, M. (2015): Experimental Assessment of Runoff Generation Processes on Hillslope Scale in a Semiarid Region in Northern Tanzania. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, Vol. 38: 55-66.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G., MÄRKER, M. & HOCHSCHILD, V., (2015): Comparison of SVM and Boosted Regression Trees for the Delineation of Lacustrine Sediments using Multispectral ASTER Data and Topographic Indices in the Lake Manyara Basin. Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation (PFG), Vol: 1 / 2015: 81-94.
• MAERKER, M., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G., BACHOFER, F. & MORI, S., (2015): A simple DEM assessment procedure for gully system analysis in the Lake Manyara area, northern Tanzania. Natural Hazards, Vol: 1-19.
• FLORES-PRIETO, E., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G., BACHOFER, F., SHAHZAD, F. & MAERKER, M., in press - Morphotectonic Interpretation of the Makuyuni Catchment in Northern Tanzania using DEM and SAR data. Geomorphology.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G. & MÄRKER, M., (2014): The Delineation of Paleo-Shorelines in the Lake Manyara Basin Using TerraSAR-X Data. Remote Sensing, Vol: 6 (3): 2195-2212.
• MÄRKER, M., BACHOFER, F., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G., HERTLER, C., SAANANE, C., GIEMSCH, L. & THIEMAYER, H. (2013): Modelling the Spatial Distribution of Archaeological Sites in the Makuyuni Region, Tanzania. CAA’2010 Fusion of Cultures. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology, p. 523-529.
• BACHOFER, F. (2011): Einfluss der vertikalen Genauigkeit von DGM auf das EcoRouting von Elektrofahrzeugen. Angewandte Geoinformatik 2011, p. 338-346.
• BACHOFER, F., KLETT, S. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2010): Verkehrsraumbewertung anhand lokaler und regionaler Indizes. In: Angewandte Geoinformatik 2010, p. 464-473.
• BACHOFER, F., HOCHSCHILD, V. & SCHULER, H. (2010): Brachemonitoring im südlichen Pfälzerwald mit Hilfe hochauflösender Satelliten- und LIDAR-Daten. In: Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation (PFG), 5, p. 355-361.
• ESCH, T., HIMMLER, V., SCHORCHT, G., THIEL, M., WEHRMANN, T., BACHOFER, F., CONRAD, C., SCHMIDT, M. & DECH, S. (2009): Large-area assessment of impervious surface based on integrated analysis of single-date Landsat-7 images and geospatial vector data. - In: Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 8/113, p. 1678-1690.
• BACHOFER, F., ESCH, T. & KLEIN, D. (2009): Ableitung von Versiegelungsgraden basierend auf hochaufgelösten Fernerkundungsdaten mittels Support Vector Machines. In: Angewandte Geoinformatik 2009, p. 432-441.

• BACHOFER, F. & H. RAU (2016). Change monitoring of a heterogeneous urban landscape using RapidEye data – DaNang, Vietnam - Theo dõi biến động cảnh quan đô thị không đồng nhất bằng dữ liệu RapidEye – Tp. Đà Nẵng, Việt Nam. GIS 2016 Conference Proceedings. Hue, Vietnam: 702-707.
• BACHOFER, F. (2016). Extraction of Building Footprints and Classification of Basic Building Typologies using Pléiades Satellite Imagery. EARSeL Symposium. Bonn, Germany (oral presentation).
• BACHOFER, F. (2016). Using tri-stereoscopic Pléiades data to identify building types in dynamically changing cities – A case study of the City of Kigali, Rwanda. ESA Living Planet Symposium. Prague, Czech Republic, ESA (oral presentation).
• RAU, H., BACHOFER, F. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2016). LULC monitoring of a dynamically growing urban landscape using RapidEye data – DaNang, Vietnam (Poster presentation). ESA Living Planet Symposium. Prague, Czech Republic, ESA.
• BACHOFER, F. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2015): A SVM-based Approach to Extract Building Footprints from Pléiades Satellite Imagery. In GeoTechRwanda 2015, Kigali, Rwanda, 2015; p 4.
• BACHOFER, F. (2015): Geomorphodynamics and Landscape Reconstruction at Archaeological Sites at the Jebel Faya Range; Department of Culture & Information: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Report; p 47-59.
• BACHOFER, F., HAGENSIEKER, R. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2015): A multi-scale approach to derive urban landuse / landcover from multispectral images. Presentation: 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - ISRSE, 11–15 May 2015. Berlin, Germany.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÈNÈHERVÈ, G., MAERKER, M. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2015): Delineation of Paleo-Lake Stages by Multisensoral Remote Sensing Analysis. POSTER: 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - ISRSE, 11–15 May 2015. Berlin, Germany.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÈNÈHERVÈ, G., MAERKER, M. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2014): Nutzung von SAR Daten zur Ableitung von Paläo-Uferlinien in Nordtansania. CAA Germany. Tuebingen, Germany.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÈNÈHERVÈ, G., MAERKER, M. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2013): Paleolake-delineation within the Lake Manyara basin, Northern Tanzania. DIGITAL GEOARCHAEOLOGY – New Technologies for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research, Heidelberg Germany.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G., MÄRKER, M. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2013): Delineation of the “Paleo-Lake Manyara” in Northern Tanzania using Radar- and Multispectral Remote Sensing. 2013 European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium, Edinburgh, UK.
• BACHOFER, F., QUÉNÉHERVÉ, G., MÄRKER, M. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2012): Soil and Landscape Assessment in the Lake Manyara Region, Northern Tanzania. AARSE 2012 - 9th International Conference African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment p. 59-60.
• ROTHFUß, R., HOCHSCHILD, V., BACHOFER, F., LE BRIS, J., ERNST, T. & FISCHER, S. (2012): Elektromobilität als Baustein eines zukunftsfähigen Verkehrssystems: Konzepte, Strategien und Methoden für einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz. p. 122.
• BACHOFER, F. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2010): Indices for the Efficiency Assessment of Road Networks. In: Digital-Proceedings of "Networks for Mobility", 5th Int. Symposium.
• BACHOFER, F. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2010): Spatial Sudies for Electric Mobility. In: Proceedings of "Networks for Mobility", 5th Int. Symposium, p. 83-84.
• BACHOFER, F., KLETT, S. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2010): Verkehrsraumanalysen mit GIS. In: Geoinformatik 2010, p. 189-190.
• BACHOFER F., FISCHER A., KROPACEK J., SAILER R., HOCHSCHILD V. (2009): Glaciological parameter extraction from time series data of TerraSAR-X and RapidEye in the Austrian Alps. - In: Proceedings of Multitemp 2009, p. 270-275. Groton, Conneticut, USA.
• BACHOFER, F., DUERR, D. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2009): Kennzahl zur leistungsspezifischen Marktdurchdringung von Krankenhäusern in Baden-Württemberg anhand GIS-gestützter Standortbewertung. In: Angewandte Geoinformatik 2009, p. 202-207.
• HAGENLOCHER, M. & BACHOFER, F. (2009): ArcPad 7.1.1. - In: GIS Business Vol. 5/2009, p. 42-45.
• HOCHSCHILD, V., BACHOFER, F., KROPACEK, J., SAILER, R., STÖTTER H. & FISCHER. A. (2008): XMAS - Determination of the Mass Balance of Alpine Glaciers with TerraSAR-X data. 3. Poster Presentation: TerraSAR-X Science Team Meeting. 25.-26. November 2008, Oberpfaffenhofen.
• BACHOFER, F. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2008): Monitoring of scrub encroachment on fallow ground in the biosphere reserve of the Palatine Forest with high resolution Quickbird- and LIDAR data. Poster Presentation: Geospatial Crossroads @ GI_Forum. 08.-10. July, Salzburg.
• BACHOFER, F. & HOCHSCHILD, V. (2008): Monitoring of scrub encroachment on fallow ground in the biosphere reserve of the Palatine Forest with high resolution Quickbird data. Poster Presentation: EARSeL - Joint Workshop Remote Sensing: New Challenges of High Resolution. 05.-07. March, Bochum.
• ROSNER, H.-J., HOCHSCHILD, V., MARTIN, M., HENTZE, K. & BACHOFER, F. (2006): Calculation of sewage charge by means of highresolution satellite data analysis: A concept for the city of Tuebingen. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop of the EARSeL SIG on Land Use and Land Cover, p. 282-286. Bonn.