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Benjamin Koetz
Research Scientist, Dr. sc. nat.

Spectroscopy Lab
Remote Sensing Laboratories
Department of Geography
University of Zurich - Irchel
Winterthurerstr. 190
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

Room:Y25 L 64
Email: bkoetz@geo.unizh.ch
Phone:+41 1 635 51 52
Fax:+41 1 635 68 46
My research interests are in
  • Geo information science related to ecosystem processes & biodiversity issues
  • Radiative Transfer Modeling - Simulation / Inversion
  • Imaging spectroscopy & large footprint LIDAR for vegetation applications
  • biophysical / biochemical parameter retrieval of vegetation canopies
  • Wildland fire risk and fuel type mapping
  • Precision Farming
  • Forestry

Projects

Hyper-Swiss-Net
FirePARADOX
NASA research opportunity: Model Inversion of Multiple-Sensor Data for Forest Biophysical Parameters Retrieval
CHRIS/Proba activities
SPREAD
EUFIRELAB
CROMA
Cubicworld - jobs and internships for Remote Sensing and GIS (A students initiative to create a network within the field of RS / GIS)

About myself

CV
Publications
Dissertation (Koetz, 2006):
Estimating Biophysical and Biochemical Properties over Heterogeneous Vegetation Canopies
Radiative Transfer Modeling in Forest Canopies Based on Imaging Spectrometry and LIDAR



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