27 aprile 2026
Online
Seminario "Novel tools for analyzing historical landscape data"
Il giorno lunedì 27 aprile si terrà il seminario online “Novel tools for analyzing historical landscape data”.
L’evento costituisce l’appuntamento inaugurale del ciclo Historical Landscape Ecology Seminar Series, organizzato dal gruppo di ricerca di Historical Landscape Ecology della International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE).
E’ possibile assistere al seminario a questo link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3413269403181?p=i4OgaOfeN7YCEtO4y5
Seminar summary
Historical aerial photography and early satellite imagery represent critical archives for reconstructing landscape change trajectories. Recent developments in data science, geospatialprocessing, digitization, feature extraction, provide excellent opportunitiesfor more robust and scalable analysis of these data. This seminar will introduce methodological innovations and discuss how they may advance the way we carry out historical landscape reconstructions and environmental change assessments.
We will feature three presentations highlighting emerging approaches to working with historical spatial data,followed by an open discussion with the presenters:
Prof. Carla Klehm will present Sunspot: a user-friendly platform to georeferenced historical satellite imagery). Carla is an environmental archaeologist Associate Professor and head of the Canter for Advanced Spatial Studies at the University of Arkansas. Her research team integrates landscape archaeology, spatial analysis, and digital methods to examine long-term human–environment interactions.
Dr. Philipp Barthelme will speak about Combining historical records & declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery to assess the long-term impacts of the Vietnam War. Philipp is a researcher in the Conflict Ecology Lab at Oregon State University, where he studies urban and environmental damage in conflict-affected areas using multimodal satellite imagery and geospatial analysis. His research integrates advanced machine learning approaches for damage mapping with statistical methods to assess social and environmental impacts. His previous work examined the long-term effects of Vietnam War–era bombing and herbicide spraying on land use change in Southeast Asia, drawing on a wide range of historical data sources including military records, topographic maps, and declassified spy satellite imagery.
Dr. Franz Schug will talk about Hexagon satellite data for multi-decadal urban change analysis. Franz is a researcher in the Geoinformatics group at the University of Trier, Germany. As both a geographer and remote sensing scientist, his research interest is in providing reliable satellite-based data to understand long-term land cover and land use change processes, and how these dynamics expose people, resources, and biodiversity to rapid environmental shifts and natural hazards like wildfire. Specifically, Franz aims at enhancing the detail and accuracy of both historic and contemporary medium-resolution satellite data in complex landscapes such as urban areas from local to global scale.