Potential of remote sensing and GIS as landscape structure and biodiversity indicators [Elektronische Ressource] : methodological study relating field data to visually interpreted and segmented landscape objects and image grey values / vorgelegt von Eva Ivits-Wasser

Potential of Remote Sensing and GIS as Landscape Structure and Biodiversity Indicators Methodological Study Relating Field Data to Visually Interpreted and Segmented Landscape Objects and Image Grey Values Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Fakultät für Forst- und Umweltwissenschaften der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Brsg. vorgelegt von Eva Ivits-Wasser Freiburg im Breisgau 2004 Dean: Prof. Dr. E. Hildebrand Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Koch Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter R. Pelz ACKNOWLEDGEMENT There are many persons I owe to thank for their support and encouragement during my PhD thesis. This was a long and difficult period, which I might not have managed without them. Firstly, I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Barbara Koch for accepting me as a PhD student and for supporting me along the way that led to my PhD work. I also thank her for the possibility to be able to work in the BioAssess project which was a great experience about how science functions in real life. I also would like to thank Prof. Dr. Dr. D. R. Pelz for taking the task of co-referent of this work. My thank also goes to the Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape research for providing the digital elevation model, topographic maps and aerial as well as orthophotos for this research. In particular, I thank Lars Waser and Dr.