Toni Schmidt
PhD Student
Department Remote Sensing
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Research Interests
- Remote sensing of soil moisture
- Synergy between remote sensing and cosmic ray neutron sensing (CRNS) for large-scale root zone soil moisture estimation
- Application of ML/AI for soil moisture analysis and reliable drought mapping
Current Projects
- MoDEV (towards novel Model-Data fusion for understanding Environmental Variability in space and time from high-resolution remote sensing)
Academic Background
2021 -
present
PhD Student, Department Remote Sensing, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
2020 - 2021
Student Assistant, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ
2018 - 2021
M.Sc. Remote Sensing, Geoinformation and Visualization, University of Potsdam
2016 - 2020
Student Assistant, Permafrost Research, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam
2016 - 2017
Student Assistant, Sedimentology, University of Potsdam
2013 - 2017
B.Sc. Geoscience, University of Potsdam
Publications
Schmidt, T., Schrön, M., Li, Z., Francke, T., Zacharias, S., Hildebrandt, A., and Peng, J.: Comprehensive Quality Assessment of Satellite- and Model-Based Soil Moisture Products against the COSMOS Network in Germany, Remote Sens. Environ., 301, 113930, 2024, 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113930.
Schmidt, T., Kuester, T., Smith, T., and Bochow, M.: Potential of Optical Spaceborne Sensors for the Differentiation of Plastics in the Environment, Remote Sens., 15(8), 2023, 10.3390/rs15082020.
Bonne, J.-L., Meyer, H., Behrens, M., Boike, J., Kipfstuhl, S., Rabe, B., Schmidt, T., Schönicke, L., Steen-Larsen, H. C., and Werner, M.: Moisture origin as a driver of temporal variabilities of the water vapour isotopic composition in the Lena River Delta, Siberia, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 10493–10511, 2020, 10.5194/acp-20-10493-2020.