Profile

Professional career

• since 10/2023
  Director of the Institute of Geography, Leipzig University
• 10/2016 - 08/2019
  Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Leipzig University
• since 02/2012
  University Professor (W2) for Geography with a main focus on Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University
• 10/2011 - 01/2012
  Deputy of offered W2 professorship for Geography with a main focus on Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University
• 12/2009 - 09/2011
  Senior researcher, Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography/Geosciences, University of Trier
• 12/2003 - 11/2009
  Junior Professor (W1) for Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Geography/Geosciences, University of Trier

Education

• 02/2010
  Certificate in scientific editing (mibeg Institute "Medien", Cologne)
• 12/2002
  PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.); Title of thesis: Optimizing model-based computations of water budgets by providing land-use dependant model inputs through remote sensing techniques (in German). University of Trier
• 04/1990 - 03/1997
  Studies of Applied Physical Geography (University of Trier), minor subjects: Geobotany, Remote Sensing

• Soil microbial community assessment with portable mid-infrared and visible to near-infrared spectroscopy

  Vohland, Michael

  Duration: 04/2017 – 04/2020

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geographie mit den Schwerpunkten Geoinformatik und Fernerkundung; Institut für Biologie; iDiv Flex Pool
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• Screening-Methoden zum kostengünstigen Nachweis einer Versorgung mit organischer Substanz auf Ackerböden und Grünland

  Vohland, Michael

  Duration: 01/2017 – 10/2019

  Funded by: Andere öffentliche Bereiche

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geographie mit den Schwerpunkten Geoinformatik und Fernerkundung
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• Monitoring water in vertical profiles of different water bodies with a hyper-spectral camera technique and compilation of a spectral library for water components

  Vohland, Michael

  Duration: 05/2014 – 01/2017

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geographie mit den Schwerpunkten Geoinformatik und Fernerkundung
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• Combined use of laboratory-based and portable infrared and x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy approaches for the spatial-vertical characterization of samples of selected soil groups

  Vohland, Michael

  Duration: 12/2021 – 12/2024

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geographie mit den Schwerpunkten Geoinformatik und Fernerkundung
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• Improving the spatio-temporal accuracy of mesoscale hydrological modelling through multi-sensor remote sensing data fusion and assimilation

  Vohland, Michael

  Duration: 04/2020 – ongoing

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geographie mit den Schwerpunkten Geoinformatik und Fernerkundung
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more projects

• Vohland, M.; Jung, A. (Eds.)

  Hyperspectral Imaging for Fine to Medium Scale Applications in Environmental Sciences

  Remote Sensing. 2020. 12 (2962).

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12182962
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• Hutengs, C.; Seidel, M.; Oertel, F.; Ludwig, B.; Vohland, M.

  In situ and laboratory soil spectroscopy with portable visible-to-near-infrared and mid-infrared instruments for the assessment of organic carbon in soils

  Geoderma. 2019. p. 113900.

  DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.113900
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• Vohland, M.; Ludwig, B.; Seidel, M.; Hutengs, C.

  Quantification of soil organic carbon at regional scale: Benefits of fusing vis-NIR and MIR diffuse reflectance data are greater for in situ than for laboratory-based modelling approaches

  Geoderma. 2022. p. 115426.

  DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115426
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