PhD thesis of Fabian Löw awarded by GGW

PhD thesis of Fabian Löw awarded by GGW

April 15, 2015

The dissertation thesis of Fabian Löw was awarded with a prize by the Geographical Society in Würzburg (GGW). In his thesis, Fabian Löw worked on land use classification at the example of irrigated landscapes in Central Asia. His researach focusses on the impact of spatial scale on classification accuracy in crop mapping (see publications in Remote Sensing and PFG) and classification uncertainty (see publications from 2013 and 2015 in ISPRS).

The prize was awarded to Fabian Löw on 08-December 2015 by Prof. Heiko Paeth and Dr. Konrad Schliephake. The laudation was held by Prof. Christopher Conrad.

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