Curriculum Vitae - Friedrich-Schiller

Curriculum Vitæ
personal details
Name
Christian Berger
Gender
Male
Degree
Master of Science
Birthday
May 3, 1985
Birthplace
Pößneck, ger
Citizenship
German
professional development
since 2009
Research assistant at Department for Earth Observation, Institute
of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Activities: Synergistic usage of SAR & optical satellite data to estimate
aboveground biomass in forest ecosystems ⋅ Project: ForestBiomass
Former activities: Analysis of high spatial resolution optical & SAR
data for various urban mapping applications ⋅ Project: Enviland-2
2009
Intern at Model–Data Integration Group, Max-Planck-Institute for
Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Jena (2 months)
Activities: Investigating the spatio-temporal relationship between
global datasets of vegetation productivity and water availability
2008
Graduate assistant at Department for Earth Observation, Institute
of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (10 months)
Activities: Literature review; Assessment of forest cover change;
Preparation of a field trip ⋅ Project: Vanuatu Carbon Credits Project
2007
Intern at German Remote Sensing Data Centre (DFD), German
Aerospace Centre (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen (2 months)
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Activities: Atmospheric correction and object-based urban land
cover classifcation of Landsat data ⋅ Project: SHAKTI
2006
Student assistant at Department of Geoinformatics, Hydrology and
Modelling, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (9 months)
Activity: Literature review on dryland salinity ⋅ Project: DrySal
schooling & university education
since 2011
PhD candidate at Department for Earth Observation, Institute of
Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Research subject: Analysis of the relationship between settlement
density & land surface temperature using multi-sensor RS data
2010
Master thesis (⊘ 1.1) at Department for Earth Observation, Institute
of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Title: ‘Fusion of high resolution SAR data and multispectral imagery
at pixel level – A comprehensive evaluation’ ⋅ Project: Enviland-2
2007—2010
Study of Geoinformatics (MSc) at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Master of Science in June 2010 (⊘ 1.1 ⋅ ECTS grade A)
Advanced courses: Object-based image analysis (OBIA) ⋅ Derivation
of land surface parameters ⋅ Integrated landscape analysis
2007
Bachelor thesis (⊘ 1.0) at German Remote Sensing Data Centre
(DFD), German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen
Title: ‘Spatio-temporal analysis of Indian megacities using Landsat
imagery’ (written in German) ⋅ Project: SHAKTI
2004—2007
Study of Geography (BSc) at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Bachelor of Science in September 2007 (⊘ 1.3 ⋅ ECTS grade A)
Major subjects: Remote Sensing ⋅ Geoinformatics ⋅ Soil Science
Minor subjects: Ecology ⋅ Cartography ⋅ Statistics ⋅ Hydrology
2003—2004
Alternative civilian service
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A level (Abitur) in June 2003
Advanced courses: Mathematics ⋅ English
1991—2003
Primary and grammar school in Neustadt an der Orla, Thüringen
other qualifications
Reviewer
Information Fusion ⋅ International Journal of Remote Sensing ⋅ IEEE
activities
Journal of Seleted Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
International Journal of Digital Earth
Advanced
Workshop on IDL (Interactive Data Language) Programming, Jena,
training
2011 ⋅ Held by Dipl.-Inf. Martin Habermeyer, DLR
Workshop on remote sensing and biogeochemical modelling, Jena,
2009 ⋅ Held by Dr. Markus Reichstein, MPI-BGC
Workshop on theory and applications of imaging spectroscopy, Jena,
2008 ⋅ Held by Dipl.-Geol. Andreas Müller, DLR
Workshop on interferometric data processing using Gamma, Jena,
2008 ⋅ Held by Dr. Maurizio Santoro, Gamma RS
Workshop on polarimetric SAR interferometry (PolInSAR), Jena,
2007 ⋅ Held by Prof. Dr. Irena Hajnsek, ETH Zurich
Computer
Digital image processing
literacy
eCognition 8 ⋅ Envi 5 ⋅ Erdas Imagine 2013 ⋅ Geomatica 2013
SAR & LiDAR software
Gamma ⋅ Nest 4C ⋅ PolSARpro 4.2 ⋅ TreesVis ⋅ Surfer 10 ⋅ LAStools
GIS & landscape analysis
ArcGIS 10 ⋅ ArcView 3.3 ⋅ ArcInfo ⋅ Quantum GIS 2 ⋅ Fragstats 3.3
Programming & scripting
IDL 8.2 ⋅ Matlab 2012b ⋅ Gamma ⋅ R ⋅ Python
Linguistic
German: Native language
proficiency
English: Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (C1)
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Awards
2012 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest (1st Prize)
Driving
Categories
licence
B ⋅ ML
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