Toni Schmidt

PhD Student

Department Remote Sensing

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig

toni.schmidt@ufz.de

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., 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, doi: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, doi:10.5194/acp-20-10493-2020.

Contact

Head
Prof. Dr. Jian Peng
Department of Remote Sensing
jian.peng@ufz.de

Assistant
Catharina Reul
Department Remote Sensing and
Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research
catharina.reul-jimenez@ufz.de
Tel.: +49 341 6025-2335

Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig | Germany

News / Press

UFZ press release of a study led by Almudena García-García: Heat extremes in the soil are underestimated

The forest condition monitor from our working group LACY is part of the Environmental Photo Festival horizons zingst 2023 and publicly displayed in the city Zingst until summer 2024.

UFZ press release of a study led by Francisco José Cuesta Valero: Underestimated Heat Storage

Daniel Doktor interviewed by radioeins: presenting the forest monitor.

Congratulations to Reagan Okoth for a successful oral Master defense!

Welcome Peter Borrmann to join us as a PhD candidate in December 2022.

Fantastic and successful first department retreat in Grimma since the establishment of the team:

Germany-wide grassland management and land-use intensity information depicted from satellite-data (Lange et al. 2022) are now available as download and web service

Congratulations to Francisco José Cuesta Valero for being awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, and we warmly welcome him to join us in October 2021.

MoDEV project kick-off seminar was successfully held on Sep 21, 2021. Four talented and motivated phd candidates will apply novel model-data fusion methods to better understand environmental variability based on high-resolution remote sensing.

MoDEV

Remote Sensing Center for Earth System Research (RSC4Earth) kicked off!

https://rsc4earth.de

https://twitter.com/Rsc4Earth

New publications

Almudena García-García, Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, Diego G. Miralles, Miguel D. Mahecha, Johannes Quaas, Markus Reichstein, Jakob Zscheischler and Jian Peng. Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes, Nature Climate Change
(doi)

Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., & Wu, T.: Continental heat storage: contributions from the ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing. Earth System Dynamics, 14, 609-627, 2023.

Mahecha, M., Bastos, A., Bohn, F., Eisenhauer, N., Feilhauer, H., Hartmann, H., Hickler, T., Kalesse-Los, H., Migliavacca, M., Otto, F., Peng, J., Quaas, J., Tegen, I., Weigelt, A., Wendisch, M., Wirth, C., (2022):
Biodiversity loss and climate extremes — study the feedbacks, Nature, 612, 30-32, 2022.

Lange M, Feilhauer H, Kühn I, Doktor D (2022):
Mapping land-use intensity of grasslands in Germany with machine learning and Sentinel-2 time series.
Remote Sensing of Environment 277,112888
(doi)

Peng, J., Albergel, C., Balenzano, A., Brocca, L., Cartus, O., Cosh, M.H., Crow, W.T., Dabrowska-Zielinska, K., Dadson, S., Davidson, M.W.J., de Rosnay, P., Dorigo, W., Gruber, A., Hagemann, S., Hirschi, M., Kerr, Y.H., Lovergine, F., Mahecha, M.D., et al., (2021):
A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications – confronting product characteristics with user requirements.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 112162
(doi)

Balenzano, A., Mattia, F., Satalino, G., Lovergine, F.P., Palmisano, D., Peng, J., et al., (2021):
Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 263, 112554
full text (doi)

Huang, J., Zhang, Y., Bing, H., Peng, J., Dong, F., Gao, J., & Arhonditsis, G.B. (2021):
Characterizing the River Water Quality in China: Recent Progress and On-Going Challenges.
Water Research 201: 117309
full text (doi)

Ayalew, D.A., Deumlich, D., Šarapatka, B., Doktor, D., (2020):
Quantifying the sensitivity of NDVI-based C factor estimation and potential soil erosion prediction using spaceborne Earth observation data
Remote Sens. 12 (7), art. 1136
full text (doi)

Preidl, S., Lange, M., Doktor, D., (2020):
Introducing APiC for regionalised land cover mapping on the national scale using Sentinel-2A imagery
Remote Sens. Environ. 240 , art. 111673
full text (doi)