JProf. Dr. David Frantz

I am fascinated by the current possibilities Earth Observation offers. Raised as an environmental scientist with a strong background in remote sensing and geoinformatics, my research concentrates on how to “go from data to information” tailored for a wide range of environmentally centered research and monitoring needs. This particularly includes the preprocessing of operational EO data archives to analysis ready data, their management in data cubes, subsequent processing via data reduction, interpolation, time series analysis, and data integration with complementary data sources, as well as data analysis based on statistics and machine learning.

I fully support open science. Thus, I am publishing all my software and methods as open source code: FORCE, and aim to make all my research openly available to everyone.

I am heading the Geoinformatics - Spatial Data Science lab at Trier University, where my team and I are focusing on Earth Observation from a data-centric perspective. My teaching revolves around the sweet spot where geospatial meets data science, i.e., where GIS is starting to happen outside of traditional GIS tools.

I am engaged in various aspects of academic self-administration and am the academic manager of our international MSc program in Geoinformatics.

Interests

  • Earth Observation
  • Data Science
  • Analysis Ready Data
  • Big Data Processing Workflows

CV

2021 – today     Geoinformatics - Spatial Data Science, Trier University, Assistant Professor

2017 – 2021      Earth Observation Lab, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, PostDoc

2013 – 2017      Environmental Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics, Trier University, PhD student / research associate

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