Soil Science & Geomorphology

Dr. Karsten Schmidt

ResearcherID:

Address:
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Soil Science and Geomorphology
Rümelinstraße 19 – 23
D-72070 Tübingen

Office: eScience Center

Contact:
+49(0)7071-29-73-629
karsten.schmidtspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Consulting hours:
By arrangement

Research Topics:

  • (Geo-) Informatics and (Spatial) Statistics
  • Data Mining and Digital Soil Mapping
  • (Big-) Data Analysis
  • Predictive Modelling and Representative Sampling
  • Lightweight Drone Development (software)
  • Pedoarchaeology

CV:

*28.02.1978

Teaching Activities:

(several Modules e.g. GEO 41, GEO 76, GEO 96)

  • Soil-Landscape Modelling
  • Soil, Geomorphology, Geophysics
  • Spatial Statistics
  • GIS

Work Experience

Since 2013
Geoscientific Senior Consultant and Elected Member of the Executive Board

Collaborative Research Center 1070 ‚ResourceCultures‘, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

Since 2013
Senior Researcher and Head of the Maschine Learning in Soil Science Group

Institute of Geography, Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

2013 – 2017
Senior Researcher

Core-Facility eScience-Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

2012 – 2013
Assistant Professor and Researcher (Post-Doc)

Institute of Geography, Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

2008 – 2012
Researcher (Post-Doc)

Institute of Geography, Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen. (Project: iSoil - Interactions between soil related sciences – Linking geophysics, soil science and digital soil mapping)

01/2006 – 10/2008
Researcher

Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 299 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) 'Landuse Concepts for Peripheral Regions' at Justus-Liebig University of Giessen

09/2005 - 01/2007
Research assistant in different projects

Institute of Geography, Chair of Physical Geography, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany: A digital soil map for the Murtensee catchment; In cooperation with the EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)

Digital Soil Mapping of the Elbe river; In cooperation with the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at the University in Halle and the Geological Survey of Saxony-Anhalt

Digital Soil Mapping of L5031 in Thuringia; In cooperation with the State Office of Environment and Geology of Thuringia.

10/2003 – 12/2005
Student assistant

Department of Physical Geography and Soil Science, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany

01/2000 – 03/2002
Student assistant

Chair of Geoinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany

Education

06/2009
PhD-degree: "Representativity and Data Mining - Concepts and Methods for Digital Soil Mapping" [Dr. rer. nat.]

Chair of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Germany

2006 – 2009
PhD-student

Chair of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 299 'Landuse Concepts for Peripheral Regions' of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

12/2005
Diploma Thesis: "Comparative Analysis of supervised classification algorithms in Digital Soil Mapping" (in German)

Department of Physical Geography & Soil Science, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany

1998 – 2005
Study of Geography

Department of Physical Geography & Soil Science, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany

Publications:

 

2022 Teuber, S., Bartelheim, M., Hardenberg, R., Knopf, M., Knopf, T., Kühn, P., Schade, T., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2022): Why do we need interdisciplinary cooperation with anthropologists and archaeologists in soil science? In: J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci., Jg. 185, H. 6, S. 752–765. doi: 10.1002/jpln.202200120
  Rentschler, T., Bartelheim, M., Behrens, T., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., Teuber, S., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2022): Contextual spatial modelling in the horizontal and vertical domains. Scientific reports, 12(1), 9496. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-13514-5
2021 Morsy, M., Taghizadeh, R., Michaelides, S., Scholten, T., Dietrich, P., Schmidt, K. (2021): Optimization of Rain Gauge Networks for Arid Regions Based on Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing, 13, 4243. doi: 10.3390/rs13214243
  Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Hamzehpour, N., Hassanzadeh, M., Heung, B., Ghebleh, M., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2021): Enhancing the accuracy of machine learning models using the super learner technique in digital soil mapping. Geoderma 399, 115108. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115108
  Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Schmidt, K., Toomanian, N., Heung, B., Behrens, T., Mosavi, A., Band, S., Amirian, A., Fathabadi, A., Scholten, T. (2020): Improving the spatial prediction of soil salinity in arid regions using wavelet transformation and support vector regression models. Geoderma.  doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114793
2020 Rentschler, T., Werban, U., Ahner, M., Behrens, T., Gries, P., Scholten, T., Teuber, S., Schmidt, K. (2020): 3D mapping of soil organic carbon content and soil moisture with multiple geophysical sensors and machine learning. Vadose zone journal, Jg. 19, H. 1. doi: 10.1002/vzj2.20062
  Gries, P., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Kühn, P. (2020): Regional and local scale variations in soil organic carbon stocks in West Greenland. In: J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci., Jg. 183, H. 3, S. 292–305. doi: 10.1002/jpln.201900390
  Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Mahdianpari, M., Mohammadimanesh, F., Behrens, T., Toomanian, N., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2020): Multi-task convolutional neural networks outperformed random forest for mapping soil particle size fractions in central Iran. Geoderma 376, 114552. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114552
  Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Schmidt, K., Amirian-Chakan, A., Rentschler, T., Zeraatpisheh, M., Sarmadian, F., Valavi, R., Davatgar, N., Behrens, T., Scholten, T. (2020): Improving the Spatial Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon Content in Two Contrasting Climatic Regions by Stacking Machine Learning Models and Rescanning Covariate Space. Remote Sensing 12, 1095. doi: 10.3390/rs12071095
2019

Behrens, T., Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Kerry, R., MacMillan, R., Schmidt, K., Lee, J., Scholten, T., Zhu, A.-X. (2019): The relevant range of scales for multi-scale contextual spatial modelling. In: Scientific reports, Jg. 9, H. 1, S. 14800. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51395-3
  Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Schmidt, K., Eftekhari, K., Behrens, T., Jamshidi, M., Davatgaar, N., Toomanian, N., Scholten, T. (2019): Synthetic resampling strategies and machine learning for digital soil mapping in Iran. European Journal of Soil Science. doi: 10.1111/ejss.12893
 

Rentschler, T., Gries, P., Behrens, T., Bruelheide, H., Kühn, P., Seitz, S., Shi, X., Trogisch, S., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2019): Comparison of catchment scale 3D and 2.5D modelling of soil organic carbon stocks in Jiangxi Province, PR China. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0220881. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220881
  Teuber, S., Schmidt, K., Kühn, P., Scholten, T. (2019): Engaging with urban green spaces – A comparison of urban and rural allotment gardens in Southwestern Germany. In: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 43. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126381
  Behrens, T., MacMillan, R.A., Viscarra Rossel, R.A., Schmidt, K., Lee, J. (2019): Teleconnections in spatial modelling. Geoderma, Volume 354, 113854. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.07.012
  Miera, J.J., Henkner, J., Schmidt, K., Fuchs, M., Scholten, T., Kühn, P., Knopf, T. (2019): Neolithic settlement dynamics derived from archaeological data and colluvial deposits between the Baar and adjacent low mountain ranges, Southwest Germany. E&G Quaternary Sci. J. 68, 75 – 93. doi: 10.5194/egqsj-68-75-2019
  Goebes, P., Schmidt, K., Seitz, S., Both, S., Bruelheide, H., Erfmeier, A., Scholten, T., Kühn, P. (2019): The strength of soil-plant interactions under forest is related to a Critical Soil Depth. Scientific Reports 9: 8635. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45156-5
  Song, Z., Seitz, S., Li, J., Goebes, P., Schmidt, K., Kühn, P., Shi, X., Scholten, T. (2019): Tree diversity reduced soil erosion by affecting tree canopy and biologicalsoil crust development in a subtropical forest experiment. Forest Ecology and Management 444, 69 – 77. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.015
2018 Ahlrichs, J., Henkner J., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Kühn, P., Knopf, T. (2018): Bronzezeitliche Siedlungsdynamiken zwischen der Baar und angrenzenden Naturräumen. In: Bianka, N., Daniel N., Martin, B. (eds.) Bronzezeitlicher Transport - Akteure, Mittel und Wege. RessourcenKulturen 8, 269 – 304. doi: 10.15496/publikation-26722
 

Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., MacMillan, R.A., Viscarra Rossel, R. (2018): Multi-scale Digital Soil Mapping with deep learning. Scientific Reports 8, 15244. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-33516-6
 

Huang, Y., Chen, Y., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Baruffol, M., Brezzi, M., Lang, A., Li, Y., Härdtle, W., von Oheimb, G., Yang, X., Liu, X., Pei, K., Both, S., Yang, B., Eichenberg, D., Assmann, T., Bauhus, J., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K. et al. (2018). Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment. Science, Vol. 362, Issue 6410, pp. 80 – 83. doi: 10.1126/science.aat6405
 

Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Viscarra Rossel, R.A., Gries, P., Scholten, T., MacMillan, R.A. (2018): Spatial modelling with Euclidean distance fields and machine learning. Eur J Soil Sci. doi: 10.1111/ejss.12687
 

Bernhard, N., Moskwa, L.-M., Schmidt, K., Oeser, R.A., Aburto, F., Bader, M.Y., Baumann, K., Blanckenburg, F. von, Boy, J., van den Brink, L., Brucker, E., Büdel, B., Canessa, R., Dippold, M.A., Ehlers, T.A., Fuentes, J.P., Godoy, R., Jung, P., Karsten, U., Köster, M., Kuzyakov, Y., Leinweber, P., Neidhardt, H., Matus, F., Mueller, C.W., Oelmann, Y., Oses, R., Osses, P., Paulino, L., Samolov, E., Schaller, M., Schmid, M., Spielvogel, S., Spohn, M., Stock, S., Stroncik, N., Tielbörger, K., Übernickel, K., Scholten, T., Seguel, O., Wagner, D., Kühn, P. (2018). Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: new insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile. Catena 170, 335 – 355. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.018
 

Hounkpatin, O.K.L., Schmidt, K., Stumpf, F., Forkuor, G., Behrens, T., Scholten, T., Amelung, W., Welp, G. (2018): Predicting reference soil groups using legacy data: a data pruning and Random Forest approach for tropical environment (Dano catchment, Burkina Faso). Scientific Reports 8:9959. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28244-w
 

Binkenstein, J., Klein, A.M., Assmann, T., Buscot, F., Erfmeier, A., Ma, K., Pietsch, K.A., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Wubet, T., Bruelheide, H., Schuldt, A. & Staab, M. (2018): Multi-trophic guilds respond differently to changing elevation in a subtropical forest. Ecography 41(6), 1013 – 1023. doi: 10.1111/ecog.03086.
 

Song, Z., Seitz, S., Zhu, P., Goebes, P., Shi, X., Xu, S., Wang, M., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2018): Spatial distribution of LAI and its relationship with throughfall kinetic energy of common tree species in a Chinese subtropical forest plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 425, 189 – 195. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2018.05.046
 

Stumpf, F., Keller, A., Schmidt, K., Mayr, A., Gubler, A., Schaepman, M. (2018): Spatio-temporal land use dynamics and soil organic carbon in Swiss agroecosystems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 258, 129 – 142. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2018.02.012
2017 Seitz, S., Nebel, M., Goebes, P., Käppeler, K., Schmidt, K., Shi, X., Song, Z., Webber, C.L., Weber, B., Scholten, T. (2017): Bryophyte-dominated biological soil crusts mitigate soil erosion in an early successional Chinese subtropical forest. Biogeosciences 14(24), 5775 – 5788. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-5775-2017
  Trogisch, S., Schuldt, A., Bauhus, J., Blum, J.A., Both, S., Buscot, F., Castro Izaguirre, N., Chesters, D., Durka, W., Eichenberg, D., Erfmeier, A., Fischer, M., Geißler, C., Germany, M.S., Goebes, P., Gutknecht, J., Hahn, C.Z., Haider, S., Härdtle, W., He, J.-S., Hector, A., Hönig, L., Huang, Y., Klein, A.-M., Kühn, P., Kunz, M., Leppert, K.N., Li, Y., Liu, X., Niklaus, P.A., Pei, Z., Pietsch, K.A., Prinz, R., Proß, T., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Seitz, S., Song, Z., Staab M., von Oheimb, G., Weißbecker, C., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Wubet, T., Yang, B., Yang, X., Zhu, C.-D., Schmid, B., Ma, K., Bruelheide, H. (2017): Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality. Ecology and Evolution 7(24), 10652 – 10674. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3488
  Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., MacMillan, R.A., Viscarra Rossel, R.A. (2017): Multiscale contextual spatial modelling with the Gaussian scale space. Geoderma 310: 128 – 137. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.09.015
 

Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Goebes, P., Behrens, T., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Wadoux, A., Xiang, W., Scholten, T. (2017): Uncertainty-guided sampling to improve digital soil maps. Catena 153, 30 – 38. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2017.01.033
  Scholten, T., Goebes, P., Kühn, P., Seitz, S., Assmann, T., Bauhaus, J., Bruelheide, H., Buscot, F., Erfmeier, A., Fischer, M., Härdtle, W., He, J.-S., Ma, K., Niklaus, P.A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Shi, X., Song, Z., von Oheimb, G., Wirth, C., Wubet, T. & Schmidt, K. (2017): On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems-a study from SE China. Journal of Plant Ecology, 10, 111 – 127. doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtw065
  Heggemann, T., Welp, G., Amelung, W., Angst, G., Franz, S.O., Koszinski, S., Schmidt, K., Pätzold, S. (2017): Proximal gamma-ray spectrometry for site-independent in situ prediction of soil texture on ten heterogeneous fields in Germany using support vector machines. Soil and Tillage Research 168, 99 – 109.
  Bosch, A., Schmidt, K., He, J.-S., Doerfer, C., Scholten, T. (2017): Potential CO2 emissions from defrosting permafrost soils of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under different scenarios of climate change in 2050 and 2070. Catena 149P1, 221 – 231.
2016 Ahlrichs, J. J., Henkner, J., Teuber, S., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Kühn, P., Knopf, T. (2016): Archaeological and Archaeopedological Approaches to Analyze the Development of Marginal Areas in Prehistory - A Case Study from the Western Baar, SW Germany. Cracow Landscape Monographs (2), 39 – 48.
  Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Buzzo, G., Dumperth, C., Wadoux, A., Xiang, W., Scholten, T. (2016): Incorporating limited field operability and legacy soil samples in a Hypercube Sampling design for Digital Soil Mapping. J Plant Nutr Soil Sci 179, 499 – 509.
  Bosch, A., Dörfer, C., He, J.-S., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2016): Predicting soil respiration for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: An empirical comparison of regression models. Pedobiologia - Journal of Soil Ecology 59, 41 – 49.
  Stumpf, F., Goebes, P., Schmidt, K., Schindewolf, M., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Wadoux, A., Xiang, W., Scholten, T. (2016): Sediment reallocations due to erosive rainfall events in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, Central China. Land Degradation & Development.
  Goebes, P., Schmidt, K., Härdtle, W., Seitz, S., Stumpf, F., von Oheimb, G., Scholten, T. (2016): Rule-based analysis of throughfall kinetic energy to evaluate biotic and abiotic factor thresholds to mitigate erosive power. Progress in Physical Geography 40(3), 431 – 449. doi: 10.1177/0309133315624642
2015 Martini, E., Wollschläger, U., Kögler, S., Behrens, T., Dietrich, P., Reinstorf, F., Schmidt, K., Weiler, M., Werban, U., Zacharias, S. (2015): Spatial and temporal dynamics of hillslopescale soil moisture patterns: characteristic states and transition mechanisms. Vadose Zone Journal 14, 4.
  Kröber, W., Li, Y., Härdtle, W., Ma, K., Schmid, B., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Seidler, G., von Oheimb, G., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Bruelheide, H. (2015): Early subtropical forest growth is driven by community mean trait values and functional diversity rather than the abiotic environment. Ecology and Evolution.
  Strehmel, A., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Buzzo, G., Dumperth, C., Stumpf F., Zimmermann, K., Bieger, K., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Bi, R., Rohn, J., Hill, J., Udelhoven, T., Wei, X., Shi, XZ., Cai, Q., Jiang, T., Fohrer, N., Scholten, T. (2015): Assessment of Geo-Hazards in a Rapidly Changing Landscape: The Three Gorges Reservoir Region in China. Environmental Earth Sciences, 74, 6, 4939 – 4960.
2014 Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Daumann, J., Ramirez-Lopez, L., Werban, U., Dietrich, P., Scholten, T. (2014): A comparison of calibration sampling schemes at the field scale. Geoderma 232 – 234, 243 – 256.
  Ramirez-Lopez, L., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., van Wesemael, B., Dematte, J.A.M., Scholten, T. (2014): Sampling optimal calibration sets in soil infrared spectroscopy. Geoderma 226 – 227, 140 – 150.
  Baumann, F., Schmidt, K., Dörfer, C., He, J.-S., Scholten, T., Kühn, P. (2014): Pedogenesis, permafrost, substrate and topography: Plot and landscape scale interrelations of weathering processes on the central-eastern Tibetan Plateau. Geoderma 226 – 227, 300 – 316.
  Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Ramirez-Lopez, L., Gallant, J., Zhu, A-X., Scholten, T. (2014): Hyper-scale digital soil mapping and soil formation analysis. Geoderma 213, 578 – 588.
2013 Schönbrodt, S., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2013): Degradation of cultivated bench terraces in the Three Gorges Area - field mapping and data mining. Ecological Indicators 34, 478 – 493.
  Ramirez-Lopez, L., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Stevens, A., Demattê, J.A.M., Scholten, T. (2013): The spectrum-based learner: a new local approach for modeling soil vis-NIR spectra. Geoderma 195, 268 – 279.
  Ramirez-Lopez, L., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Viscarra Rossel, R., Demattê, J.A.M., Scholten, T. (2013): Distance and similarity-search metrics for use with soil vis-NIR spectra. Geoderma 199, 43 – 53.
2010 Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Zhu, A-X., Scholten, T. (2010).The ConMap approach for terrain based digital soil mapping. European Journal of Soil Science, 61/1, 133 – 143. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2009.01205.x
  Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Gerber, R., Albrecht, C., Felix-Henningsen, P., Scholten, T. (2009). Concepts for generating shortest representative transects – sampling approaches for linear operated proximal soil sensors. J. Georg. Inf. Science (minor revision).
  Behrens, T., Zhu, A.X., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. Multi-scale digital terrain analysis and feature selection for digital soil mapping. Geoderma, 155/3 – 4, 175 – 185. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.07.010.
2009

Baumann, F., He, J.S., Schmidt, K., Kühn, P., Scholten, T.(2009): Pedogenesis, permafrost, and soil moisture as controlling factors for soil nitrogen and carbon contents across the Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology, 15/12, 3001 – 3017. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01953.x.
  Schmidt, K., Behrens, T. & Scholten, T. (2009). A method to generate soilscapes from soil maps.
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 173/2, 163 – 172. doi: 10.1002/jpln.200800208.
2008 Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Gerber, R., C. Albrecht, C., Felix-Henningsen, P., Scholten, T. (2008). Shortest representative transects for linear operated proximal soil sensing surveys. In: Viscarra-Rossel et al.: Proc. 1st Global Workshop on High Resolution Digital Soil Sensing and Mapping. Sydney, Australia.
  Schmidt, K., Behrens, T. & Scholten, T. (2008). Instance selection and classification tree analysis for large spatial datasets in digital soil mapping. Geoderma, 146, 138 – 146.
  Behrens, T., Schmidt, K. & Scholten, T. (2008). An approach to remove uncertainties in nominal environmental covariates and soil class maps. In: Hartemink, McBratney & Mendoca-Santos (2008): Digital Soil Mapping for regions and countries with sparse soil data infrastructures. Springer.
2007 Albrecht, Ch., Schmidt, K., Gerber, R., Behrens, T., Felix-Henningsen, P. & Scholten, T. (2007). Georadaruntersuchungen repräsentativer Transekte im Einzugsgebiet der Nidda (Hessen). Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch. 110(2): 423f.
  Schmidt, K., Behrens, T. & Scholten, T. (2007). Landschaftssegmentierung, Repräsentanz und Data Mining - Konzepte der digitalen Bodenkartierung. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch. 110(2): 537f.
2005 Schmidt, K. Behrens, T. & Scholten T. (2005): Entwicklung eines Verfahrens zur Verschneidung von Attributinformationen bei nicht deckungsgleichen Bodeninformationen. IN: Tübinger geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten (TGA).
  Behrens, T., Schmidt, K. Kipka, H. und Scholten, T. (2005): Prognose und Korrektur von Bodenkarten mit Techniken des Data Minings. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.
  Schmidt, K. Behrens, Th., Scholten, T. , Reinhardt, F. und W. Brandtner (2005): Räumliche Zuweisung und Extrapolation von Attributen der Mittelmaßstäbigen Bodenkarte (MMK) in die Bodengeologische Karte (BGK) Thüringens. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch. 106: 95f.

Workshop/Conference contributions:

55 Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Toomanian, N., Shamshirband, S., Mosavi, A., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2020): Predicting and mapping of soil salinity using machine learning algorithms in central arid regions of Iran. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18516 [talk]
54

Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Scholten, T., Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R. (2019): Synthetische Stichprobenverfahren in der bodenkundlichen Modellierung. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 25. – 28. August 2019, Bern, Schweiz. [talk]
53 Stumpf, F., Keller, A., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Meuli, R. (2019): Spatio-temporal processing of geo information for digital soil mapping in Switzerland. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 25. – 28. August 2019, Bern, Schweiz. [talk]
52 Becker, C., Petzold, R., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Thomas, F., Werban, U., Scholten, T. (2019): Räumliche Prognose der Humuseigenschaften von Waldböden. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 25. – 28. August 2019, Bern, Schweiz. [talk]
51 Gries, P., Behrens, T., Scholten, T., Henkner, J., Kühn, P., Schmidt, K. (2019): Skalenabhängige Modellierung des Kohlenstoffvorrats einer Eisrandregion in Westgrönland. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 25. – 28. August 2019, Bern, Schweiz. [talk]
50 Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., MacMillan, R. A., Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Gries, P., Stumpf, F., Scholten, T., Lee, J. (2019): Räumlicher Kontext und räumliche Abhängigkeiten - Maschinelles Lernen in der Boden-Landschaftsmodellierung. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 25. – 28. August 2019, Bern, Schweiz. [talk]
49 Rentschler, T., Bartelheim, M., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2019): Convolutional neural networks und Nahinfrarotspektroskopie für die Prognose von Bodenqualitätsindikatoren. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 25. – 28. August 2019, Bern, Schweiz. [talk]
48 Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Schmidt, K., Nabiollahi, K., Rasoli, L., Scholten, T. (2019): Machine learning and land suitability assessment for irrigated wheat crop in Kurdistan, Iran. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 25. – 28. August 2019, Bern, Schweiz. [poster]
47 Bindereif, L., Rentschler, T., Bartelheim, M., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., Gries, P., Schmidt, K. and Scholten, T. (2019): Analysis and mapping of spatio-temporal land use dynamics in Andalusia, Spain using the Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform and the Landsat archive. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria. [poster]
46 Gries, P., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. and Kühn, P. (2019): Spatial variability of soil organic carbon at different scales in West Greenland. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria. [talk]
45 Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Schmidt, K., Zeraatpisheh, M., Behrens, T., Valavi, R. and Scholten, T. (2019): Soil organic carbon mapping using state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks in different climatic regions of Iran. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria. [talk]
44 Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Mahdianpari, M., Mohammadimanesh, F., Toomanian, N., Behrens, T., Scholten, T. and Schmidt, K. (2019): A novel convolutional neural network for digital soil mapping. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria. [talk]
43 Meier, L.A., Burkhardt, F., Scholten, T., Kühn, P. and Schmidt, K. (2019): Multispectral Image Analysis and Machine Learning in Soil Micromorphology. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria. [poster]
42 Rentschler, T., Ahner, M., Behrens, T., Gries, P., Kühn, P., Werban, U.,  Scholten, T. and Schmidt, K. (2019): Three-dimensional mapping of soil organic carbon and soil water content with proximal soil sensing data. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria. [PICO]
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Rentschler, T., Ahner, M., Behrens, T., Gries, P., Kühn, P., Werban, U., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2019): Dreidimensionale Kartierung des organischen Bodenkohlenstoffs und des Bodenwassergehalts mit geophysikalischen Methoden. Workshop der AG DSM der Deutschen bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, 4 – 5 April 2019. [workshop]
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R. Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, K. Schmidt, T. Behrens, T. Scholten (2019): Multi-task convolutional neural networks for predicting spatial distribution of soil texture fractions in Isfahan province, Iran. Workshop der AG DSM der Deutschen bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, 4 – 5 April 2019. [workshop]
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K. Schmidt, R. Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, T. Behrens, T. Scholten (2019): Synthetic resampling strategies and machine learning for digital soil mapping in Iran. Workshop der AG DSM der Deutschen bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, 4 – 5 April 2019. [workshop]
38 T. Behrens und K. Schmidt (2019): Kontext. Workshop der AG DSM der Deutschen bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, 4 – 5 April 2019. [talk]
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Rentschler, T., Gries, P., Behrens, T., Bruelheide, H., Kühn, P., Seitz, S., Trogisch, S., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2018): Comparison of catchment scale 3D and 2.5D modelling of soil organic carbon stocks in Jiangxi Province, PR China. 2nd ISMC Conference: New Perspectives on Soil Models, Wageningen, Netherlands. [poster]
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Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Schmidt, K., Eftekhari K., Rentschler, T., Scholten, T. (2018): Updating the categorical soil map of Iran using limited soil legacy data. 21st World Congress of Soil Science, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [poster]
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Rentschler, T., Schmidt, K. (2018): Learning QGIS - Getting started with geospatial analysis and mapping. In Poseidons Reich XXIII, Jahrestagung der DEGUWA e.V., Tübingen, Germany. [workshop]
34 Gries, P., Kühn, P., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2017): High resolution modelling of soil organic carbon in West Greenland. Pedometrics 2017, Wageningen, Netherlands. [talk]
33 Gries, P., Wagner, J., Kandolf, L., Henkner, J., Kühn, P., Scholten, T., Schmidt, K. (2017): Investigations on soil organic carbon stocks and active layer thickness in West Greenland. EGU 2017, Vienna, Austria. [poster]
32 Gries, P., Funke, L.-M., Baumann, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Scholten, T. (2016): High resolution digital soil mapping as a future instrument for developing sustainable landuse strategies. Geophysical Research Abstracts 18, EGU2016-1101-1. [poster]
31 Hounkpatin, O., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Amelung, W., Scholten, T., Welp, G. (2015): Digital soil mapping of the Dano catchment (Southwest Burkina-Faso) using Random Forests analysis. DSM Workshop 2015, Tübingen. [talk]
30 Scholten, T., Ahner, M., Goebes, P., Seitz, S., Song, Z., Schmidt, K. (2015): Erstellung von 3D-Oberflächenmodellen im Submillimeterbereich für die Bodenerosionsforschung. Kommission V/Bildgebende Verfahren in der Bodenkunde, WV176, DBG-Jahrestagung Munich, Germany. [poster]
29 Goebes, P., Schmidt, K., Seitz, S., Scholten, T. (2015): Identifying leaf and tree architectural trait thresholds for throughfall kinetic energy using decision trees. Kommission VI/Freie Themen zum Bodenschutz, WV118, DBG-Jahrestagung Munich, Germany.
28 Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Xiang, W., Scholten, S. (2015): Integration von Zusatzstichproben zur Qualitätssteigerung von digitalen Bodeneigenschaftskarten. 5. Digital Soil Mapping Workshop, 30. März bis 01. April 2015, Tübingen, Deutschland. [talk]
27 Wadoux, A., Ramirez-Lopez, L., Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2015): Mid-Infrared spectroscopy as a tool for the study of soil-landscape relationships. 5. Digital Soil Mapping Workshop, 30. März  – 01. April 2015, Tübingen, Deutschland. [talk]
26 Stumpf, F., Schindewolf, M., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2015): Prozess-basierte Erosionsmodellierung in einem Kleineinzugsgebiet in Zentralchina. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2015, Kommission VI /Bodenerosion, 05. – 10. September 2015, München, Deutschland. [talk]
25 Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Stumpf, F., Scholten, T. (2015): Der Einfluss von Bankterrassen auf die Bodenerosion in einer heterogenen Terrassenlandschaft in China. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2015, Kommission VI /Bodenerosion, 05. – 10. September 2015, München, Deutschland. [talk]
24 Schmidt, K., Wadoux, A., Ramirez-Lopez, L., Stumpf, F., Scholten, T., Behrens, T. (2015): Mid-Infrared spectroscopy as a tool to analyze soil-landscape relationships. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2013, Kommission V /Digital Soil Mapping, 05. – 10. September 2015, München, Deutschland. [talk]
23 Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Wadoux, A., Scholten, S. (2015): Spatial uncertainty-guided sampling to improve digital soil maps. Pedometrics 2015, 14 – 18 September, Cordoba, Spain. [poster]
22 Bosch, A., Doerfer, C., He, J.-S., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2015): Flächendeckende Ableitung der Wurzelbiomasse auf dem Qinghai-Tibet Plateau aus Klima- und Topographiedaten: zur Eignung verschiedener Transferfunktionen. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2015, Munich, Germany. [talk]
21 Bosch, A., Doerfer, C., He, J.-S., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2015): Comparison of Regression Models Applied for the Estimation of Soil Respiration and Belowground Biomass on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria. [talk]
20 Bosch, A., Doerfer, C., He, J.-S., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2015): Spatially Distinct Estimation of Root Biomass on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: An Assessment of Empirical Models. 7th International Congress of European Society for Soil Conservation (ESSC) 2015, Moscow, Russian Federation. [poster]
19 Bosch, A., Doerfer, C., He, J.-S., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2015): Approximating Soil Respiration and Belowground Biomass on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with Different Empirical Models. Joint Meeting of Commission 2.5 of IUSS (ISMOM), CSSS and AQSSS 2015, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
18 Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Scholten, T. (2014): Erosionsmodellierung in Zentralchina - Digital Soil Mapping auf Basis eines modifizierten Latin Hypercube Samplings und Random Forest zur Parameterabschätzung. Arbeitskreis Theorie und Quantitative Methoden in der Geographie Tübingen 2014, Theorie - Modell - Anwendung, 27.02.-01.03.2014, Universität Tübingen.
17 Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Buzzo, G., Dumperth, C., Wadoux, A., Scholten, T. (2014): Integrating legacy soil information in a Digital Soil Mapping approach based on a modified conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling design. submitted to EGU General Assembly 2014, 27 April – 02 May 2014, Vienna, Austria.
16 Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Buzzo, G., Dumperth, C., Wadoux, A., Scholten, T. (2014): Integrating legacy soil information in a Digital Soil Mapping approach based on a modified conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling design. submitted to the EGU - SSS Conference ELS 2014 The Earth Living Skin: Soil, Life and Climate Changes, 22 – 25 September 2014.
15 Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Scholten, T. (2013): Bodenerosionsmodellierung in einem kleinen Gebirgseinzugsgebiet im Reservoir des Drei-Schluchten-Staudamms. Workshop der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft "Möglichkeiten modellgestützter Bodenerosionsermittlung - Anwendung des Modells Erosion 3D", 13. – 15. März 2013, Berlin-Spandau.
14 Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2013): Hyperskalige digitale Reliefanalyse, Data Mining und Bodenbildung. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.
13 Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Xiang, W., Scholten, T. (2013): Ökologische Implikationen des Drei-Schluchten-Staudamms in China. Deutscher Geographentag 2013, Passau.
12 Martini, E., Kögler, S., Grau, T., Wollschläger, U., Werban, U., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Zacharias, S. (2013): Spatial and temporal variability of hillslope-scale soil moisture patterns. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.
11 Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Stumpf, F., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Xiang, W., Scholten, T. (2013): Ökologische Implikationen des Drei-Schluchten-Staudamms in China. Deutscher Geographentag 2013, Passau.
10 Stumpf, F., Schönbrodt-Stitt, S., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Scholten, T. (2013): Erosionsmodellierung in Zentralchina: Conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling als Grundlage für eine Bodenlandschaftsmodellierung. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.
9 Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Werban, U., Scholten, T. (2013): Integration geophysikalischer Feldmessungen in die regionale Bodenlandschaftsmodellierung. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.
8 Ramirez-Lopez, L., Van Wesemael, B., Stevens, A., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K. (2013): Three dimensional soil organic carbon monitoring using vis-NIR spectrometry and hyperscale terrain analysis. EGU General Assembly 2013, 15, Vienna, Austria, EGU2013-11509-2. [talk]
7 Ramirez-Lopez, L., Van Wesemael, B., Stevens, A., Doetterl, S., Van Oost, K., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K. (2012): Integrating depth functions and hyper-scale terrain analysis for 3D soil organic carbon modeling in agricultural fields at regional scale. EGU General Assembly 2012, 14, Vienna, Austria, EGU2012-5529. [talk]
6 Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Scholten,T., (2011): ConMap – ein neuer Ansatz zur reliefbasierten Regionalisierung von Bodeneigenschaften. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch. online.
5 Schönbrodt, S., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T. (2011): Modellierung von Terrassen als Erosionsschutz im Gebiet des Drei-Schluchten-Staudamms (China). Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.
4 Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Ramirez-Lopez, L., Werban, U., Scholten, T. (2011):Digital Soil Mapping und Geophysik – Erfahrungen aus dem iSoil-Projekt. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.
3 Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Gerber, R., C. Albrecht, C., Felix-Henningsen, P., Scholten, T. (2008): Shortest representative transects for linear operated proximal soil sensing surveys. In: Viscarra-Rossel et al.: Proc. 1st Global Workshop on High Resolution Digital Soil Sensing and Mapping. Sydney, Australia.
2 Albrecht, C., Schmidt, K., Gerber, R., Behrens, T., Felix-Henningsen, P., Scholten, T. (2007): Georadaruntersuchungen repräsentieren Transekte im Einzugsgebiet der Nidda (Hessen). Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.110/1: 423 – 424.
1 Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Scholten, T. (2007): Landschaftssegmentierung, Repräsentanz und Data Mining – Konzepte zur digitalen Bodenkartierung. Mitteilgn. Dtsch. Bodenkundl. Gesellsch.110/1: 537 – 538.