Julius Knopp
M.Sc. Geoinformatics
Researcher
Environment and Society
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Working Group Geomatics
Helmholtz- Centre for Environmental Research -UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Tel.: +49 341 60252407
Email: julius.knopp@ufz.de

Research interests
- Urban remote sensing with focus on green spaces and heat islands
- Modelling of accessibility and distribution of urban land use types
- Survey of land use and land cover classification with object-based image analysis
- Public participation in the context of energy landscapes
Professional career
since 04/2020
Scientific employee in the department of urban and environmental sociology, project REGREEN
07/2019
Master thesis "Comparative structural analysis of thermal and spectral properties of urban green spaces using Berlin, Paris and Tehran as examples"
10/2016− 07/2019
Studied Geoinformatics at Friedrich- Schiller University Jena, Degree M.Sc.
10/2012 − 09/2016
Studied Geography at Georg- August University Göttingen, Degree B.Sc.
Publications
2024 (1)
- Zandersen, M., Banzhaf, E., Knopp, J.M., Scheffler, J., Levin, G., Guell, C., Wicke, M. (2024):
Naturbasierte Lösungen zur Stärkung der Resilienz in Städten
In: Kabisch, S., Rink, D., Banzhaf, E. (Hrsg.)
Die resiliente Stadt : Konzepte, Konflikte, Lösungen
Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, S. 145 - 164
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2023 (1)
- Knopp, J.M., Levin, G., Banzhaf, E. (2023):
Aerial data analysis for integration into a green cadastre - an example from Aarhus, Denmark
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens. 16 , 6545 - 6555
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2022 (5)
- Banzhaf, E., Anderson, S., Grandin, G., Hardiman, R., Jensen, A., Jones, L., Knopp, J., Levin, G., Russel, D., Wu, W., Yang, J., Zandersen, M. (2022):
Urban-rural dependencies and opportunities to design nature-based solutions for resilience in Europe and China
Land 11 (4), art. 480
full text (doi) - Bird, D.N., Banzhaf, E., Knopp, J., Wu, W., Jones, L. (2022):
Combining spatial and temporal data to create a fine-resolution daily urban air temperature product from remote sensing land surface temperature (LST) data
Atmosphere 13 (7), art. 1152
full text (doi) - Knopp, J. (2022):
High resolution land cover 2016 Velika Gorica (Version v1) [Data set]
ZENODO 10.5281/zenodo.7107514 - Wu, W., Luo, X., Knopp, J., Jones, L., Banzhaf, E. (2022):
Refined land cover for Beijing, Shanghai, Ningbo in China and Paris Region, Velika Gorica, Aarhus in Europe under different scenarios in 2030 [Data set]
ZENODO 10.5281/zenodo.6997232 - Wu, W., Luo, X., Knopp, J., Jones, L., Banzhaf, E. (2022):
A European-Chinese exploration: Part 2 – Urban ecosystem service patterns, processes and contributions to environmental equity under different scenarios
Remote Sens. 14 (4), art. 3488
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2021 (1)
- Banzhaf, E., Wu, W., Luo, X., Knopp, J. (2021):
Integrated mapping of spatial urban dynamics—A European-Chinese exploration. Part 1—Methodology for automatic land cover classification tailored towards spatial allocation of ecosystem services features
Remote Sens. 13 (9), art. 1744
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2020 (2)
- Banzhaf, E., Bird, D.N., Blanco, E., Fletcher, D., Jones, L., Knopp, J., Luo, X., Wu, W., Yang, Y., Bachiller‐Jareno, N., Hutchings, M., Ma, J., Miller, J., Vieno, M., Zhao, B. (2020):
Synthesis report on current datasets and their applicability of ecosystem services mapping and modelling. Deliverable N°3.1. WP N°3 Mapping and modelling ecosystem services
REGREEN - Nature-Based Solutions, 76 pp.
full text (url) - Fletcher, D., Zhao, B., Grandin, G., Yang, J., Barra, M., Ruzic, M., Vinther Larsen, L., Iversen, S., Xu, Y., Chen, C., Banzhaf, E., Knopp, J., Luo, X., Wu, W., Vesuviano, G., Jones, L. (2020):
Report on assessment of drivers and pressures leading to urban challenges, across the ULLs, including spatial and temporal components. Deliverable D2.1. for EU H2020 REGREEN project
REGREEN - Nature-Based Solutions, 41 pp.
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