Dr. -Ing. Clémence Dubois

• Since 2018
  Post-Doc and leader of the RADAR Remote Sensing group at the department of Earth Observation of the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
• 2016 - 2018
  Research Assistant at Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
• 2012 - 2015 
  PhD at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remose sensing (IPF) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
  • Dissertation Title: "Interferometric Synthetic Aperture RADAR and Radargrammetry towards the Categorization of Building Changes"
• 2005 - 2011Double-Degree in Topography / Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (InSA Strasbourg) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), France and Germany
  • Thesis title: "Entwicklung und Erprobung von geeigneten Filtern zur Glättung der InSAR Phasen von Gebäudesignaturen (Development and Testing of suitable Filters for Smoothing the InSAR Phases of Building Signature)"

• Interferometric SAR Data Analysis
• PS and SBAS Interferometry
• Fusion of Optical- and SAR Data
• Time series analysis
• Urban and environmental monitoring

Involved in current projects

• BIOFOR
  Biomasse-Forschungsstruktur (Biomass Estimation Knowledge Structure)
• Boar Impact (Nationalpark Hainich)
• HyperSense (DLR)
• SEN4REDD
  Utilisation of Sentinel-1/2 Data for the Delineation of REDD+ Products
• EO-College/SAR-EDU
• EO4GEO
  Towards and innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus user uptake
• Interferometric Applications
  Mining and Ground Motion, Dam Monitoring with PSI

Abbreviation: german/ english

Bachelor-degree

• GEOG 312: Grundlagen der Radarfernerkundung / Principles of RADAR remote sensing

Masters-degree

• GEO 402: Ableitung von Landoberflächenparametern: Regionale Analysen im Vergleich / Land Surface Parameter: regional analysis
• GEO 436: Einführung in die Radarfernerkundung /Introduction to RADAR remote sensing
• GEO 411: Landschaftsmanagement und Fernerkundung / Landscape management and remote sensing
• GEO 511: Integriertes Forschungsseminar II / Research Seminar

Teaching profession

• GEOG 345: Einführung in die Fernerkundung für Schulen /Introduction to remote sensing for schools

• Publications

2020

DUBOIS, C., MUELLER, M. M., PATHE, C., JAGDHUBER, T., CREMER, F., THIEL, C., & SCHMULLIUS, C. (2020). Characterization of land cover seasonality in Sneintle-1 time series data. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, 5(3). View

STELMASZCZUK-GÓRSKA, M. A., AGUILAR-MORENO, E., CASTELEYN, S., VANDENBROUCKE, D., MIGUEL-LAGO, M., DUBOIS, C., ... & ALBRECHT, F. (2020). Body of knowledge for the earth observation and geoinfaromation sector-A basis for innovative skills development. The International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 43, 15-22. View

THIEL, C., MÜLLER, M. M., BERGER, C., CREMER, F., DUBOIS, C., HESE, S.,BAADE, J., KLAN, F. & PATHE, C. (2020). Monitoring Selective Logging in a Pine-Dominated Forest in Central Germany with Repeated Drone Flights Utilizing A Low Cost RTK Quadcopter. Drones, 4(2), 11. View

JÄNICHEN, J., DUBOIS, C., WOLSZA, M., SALEPCI, N., & C. SCHMULLIUS (2020): Investigation of the ground motion near the leaning tower of Bad Frankenhausen using Sentinel-1 persistent scatterer interferometry, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B3-2020, 305–312. View

DUBOIS, C.,JÄNICHEN, J., WOLSZA, M., SALEPCI, N. & C. SCHMULLIUS (2020): 20 Years SAR Interferometry for Monitoring Ground Deformation over the former Potash-Mine “Glückauf” in Thuringia, In: Tagungsband Geomonitoring 2020, S. 29-45. doi:10.15488/9339. View

2019

BARIS, I., JAGDHUBER, T., JONARD, F., JUDGE, J., ANGLBERGER, H., DUBOIS, C., FLUHRER, A. (2019): Integrated Modeling of Active and Passive Microwaves and Passive Optical Signatures, Proc. 'IGARSS 2019- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium'.

TRUCKENBRODT, J., FREEMANTLE, T., WILLIAMS, C., JONES, T., SMALL, D., DUBOIS, C., THIEL, C., ROSSi, C., SYRIOU, A., GIULIANI, G. (2019) Towards Sentinel-1 SAR Analysis Ready Data: A best practices assessment on preparing backscatter data for the cube, MDPI Data. View

2018 

DUBOIS, C., STOFFNER, F., SANDNER, M., LABIADH, M., MIMOUNI, M. (2018): Copernicus Sentinel-2 Data for the Determination of Groundwater Withdrawal in the Maghreb Region. Proc. ‘ISPRS Midterm Symposia 2018’, 9th-12th October 2018. View

2017

DUBOIS, C., NASCETTI, A., THIELE, A., CRESPI, M., HINZ, S. (2017): SAR-SIFT for Matching Multiple SAR Images and Radargrammetry. In: PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science, Springer International Publishing, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 149-158. doi: 10.1007/s41064-017-0019-y.

2016 

THIELE, A., DUBOIS, C., BOLDT, M., HINZ, S. (2016): Using TanDEM Data for Forest Height Estimation and Change Detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VII, doi: 10.1117/12.2241795, Vol. 10005, pp. 1000514-1 - 1000514-8.

HAMMER, H., DUBOIS, C., BOLDT, M., KUNY, S., CADARIO, E., THIELE, A. (2016): Comparison of Multiple Methods for Detection Changes in Urban Areas in TerraSAR-X Data. In: Proceedings of SPIE, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VII, doi: 10.1117/12.2241315, Vol. 10005, pp. 100050Y-1 - 100050Y-16.

THIELE, A., DUBOIS, C., HINZ, S. (2016): Detection of building changes using interferometric synthetic aperture radar and radargrammetry. Proceedings 'TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X Science Meeting'. (abstract only) 

DUBOIS, C., THIELE, A., HINZ., S. (2016) Building Detection and Building Parameter Retrieval in InSAR Phase Images, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 114, pp. 228-241. Impact Factor: 6.942. View

DUBOIS, C. (2016) Interferometric Synthetic Aperture RADAR and Radargrammetry towards the Categorization of Building Changes, PhD Thesis, Date: 11/11/2015, doi(KIT): 10.5445/IR/1000051736.

2015 

DUBOIS, C., THIELE, A., WELTE, A., HINZ, S. (2015): Parameterisation of Layover Detector for Urban Analysis in InSAR Data. Proc. 'Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)', Lausanne, Switzerland, 30 March- 1 April 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4799-6653-0, pp. 73-76. View

2014 

DUBOIS, C., THIELE, A., HINZ., S. (2014): Extraction of Building Parameters by SAR Radargrammetric Analysis of Layover Areas. Proc. 'IGARSS 2014- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium', Québec, Canada, 13-19 July 2014. View

DUBOIS, C., THIELE, A., HINZ., S. (2014): Building Detection in TanDEM-X Data. Proc. 'EUSAR 2014, 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar', Berlin, Germany, 3-6 June 2014, ISBN 978-3-8007-3607-2, pp. 866-869. View

2013

DUBOIS C., THIELE A., HINZ S. (2013): Pixel-Based Approach for Building Heights Determination by SAR Radargrammetry. Proc. 'CMRT13- City Models, Road and Traffic Workshop 2013', Antalya, Turkey, 12 – 13 November 2013, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences , Volume II-3/W3, pp.19-24. View

DUBOIS C., THIELE A., HINZ S. (2013): Towards Change Detection in Urban Area by SAR Interferometry and Radargrammetry. Proc. 'ISPRS Hannover Workshop 2013', Hannover, Germany, 21 – 24 May 2013, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-1/W1, pp. 99-104.View

2012

DUBOIS C., THIELE A., HINZ S. (2012): Adaptive Filtering of Interferometric Phases at Building Location. Proc. 'IGARSS 2012- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium', Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012, ISSN 2153-6996, pp. 6625 – 6628. View

THIELE A., DUBOIS C., CADARIO E., HINZ S. (2012): GIS-supported iterative filtering approach for building height estimation from InSAR data, Proc. ‘EUSAR 2012, 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar’, Nuremberg, Germany, 23-26 April 2012, ISBN: 978-3-8007-3404-7 , pp. 19-22. View

DUBOIS C. (2012): Développement et expérimentation de filtres adaptés au lissage d’images de phase InSAR appliqué aux bâtiments. Revue XYZ de l'Association Française de Topographie n° 130, 1er trimestre 2012, ISSN 0290-9057, pp.13-20. Download

2011 

DUBOIS C., THIELE A., CADARIO E., HINZ S. (2011), Enhancing Building Reconstruction by Adaptive Filtering of Interferometric Phases, Proc. ‘Fringe 2011 Workshop’, Frascati, Italy, 19–23 September 2011 (ESA SP-697, January 2012). View

THIELE A., DUBOIS C., CADARIO E., HINZ S. (2011), Smart Filtering of Interferometric Phases for Enhancing Building Reconstruction, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, PIA11, Vol. XXXVIII, Part 3/W22, pp. 161-166. View

• Scientific contributions in conference

2020

THIEL, C., DUBOIS, C., KLAN, F., PATHE, C., SCHMULLIUS, C., BAADE, J., MÜLLER, M. & CREMER, F. (2020). Knowledge transfer through Citizen Science using the example of a forest inventory campaign. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 22236).

DUBOIS, C., ECKARDT, R. SCHMULLIUS, C. (2020). MOOC-Inhalte über Moodle: Anpassung, Wahrnehmung und Auswertung. E-Learning Tag der Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena

DUBOIS, C. (2020) Blended-Learning im Bereichd er Erdbeobachtung, . DIES LEGENDI 2020

2019

UHDE, A., HENNING, T., PATHER, C., DUBOIS, C. (2019) Untersuchung der Bodenfeuchte im Gebiet Roda-Wald mittels Sentinel-1 Radarsatellitendaten. GIS-day 2019, Germany

JÄNICHEN, J., WOLSZA, M., SALEPCI, N., DUBOIS, C. (2019): Analyse von Sentinel-1 Zeitreihen: Bodenbewegungen über dem Salzabbaugebiet Sondershausen mit Radarsatellitendaten. GIS-day 2019, Germany

DUBOIS, C., MUELLER, M. M., CREMER, F., PATHE, C., SCHMULLIUS, C. (2019): Sentinel-1 Zeitreihenanalyse zur Quantifizierung des Einflusses der Aufnahmegeometrie und Erkennung von Saisonalität für spezifische Landbedeckungsklassen., DLR Symposium Neue Perspektiven der Erdbeobachtung, 12th – 13th November 2019, Germany

DUBOIS, C., KALIA, A., GRÜNBERG, I. (2019): TerraSAR-X SBAS Analysis for Subsidence Estimation due to Groundwater Use for Agriculture in Tunisia. Proc. ‘TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X Science Meeting’, Germany

DIMITROV, Z., BERGER, C., DUBOIS, C. (2019): Interferometric processing of bistatic data from TanDEM-X over mountainous test areas in Bulgaria. Proc. ‘TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X Science Meeting’, Germany

PATHE, C., DUBOIS, C. (2019): Measurement systems for biomass. Fighting Deforestation Workshop, Bangkok

2018

EBERLE, J., DUBOIS, C. (2018) BigData für die Nutzer: Stand der Forschung und Einschätzung der Entwicklungen im Bereich der Dateninfrastruktur und –analyse. Nationales Forum für Fernerkundung und Copernicus 2018, Germany

DUBOIS, C., STOFFNER, F., FREI, M. (2018): Methods of Remote Sensing for Assessing Groundwater Exploitation in the Maghreb Region. Proceedings ‘27^th Colloquium of African geology’, 23^th-28^th July 2018, Portugal.

2017

DUBOIS, C., FREI, M., LEGE, T. (2017): Geospatial Copernicus Data and Standards: Applications in the International Technical Cooperation. Proceedings ‘INSPIRE Conference 2017’, 6th-9th September 2017, France.

STOFFNER, F., DUBOIS, C., MIMOUNI, M., NOUIRI, I., SAHLI, A., TARHOUNI, J. (2017): Application of SENTINEL 1 and 2 satellite imagery for sustainable groundwater management in agricultural areas. Proceedings ‘44^th annual congress of the international association of hydrogeologists’, 25^th-29^th Sept. 2017, Croatia. (abstract only)

DUBOIS, C., BÄUMLE, R., HIMMELSBACH, T. (2017): New Approaches of Remote Sensing for the Determination of Hidden Ground Water Bodies. Proceedings ‘ Zambia Water Forum and Exhibition (ZAWAFE)’, 12^th-13^th June 2017, Zambia.

2016

DUBOIS, C., GRÜNBERG, I. (2016): InSAR in the Technical Cooperation: Applications for Groundwater Monitoring. Supra-National Ground Motion Service Workshop, 2^nd-3^rd November 2016, Germany.

THIELE, A., DUBOIS, C., HINZ, S. (2016): Using TanDEM-X data for forest height estimation and change detection. Proceedings 'TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X Science Meeting'.

THIELE, A., DUBOIS, C., HINZ, S. (2016): Detection of building changes using interferometric synthetic aperture radar and radargrammetry. Proceedings 'TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X Science Meeting'.

2014

DUBOIS, C., THIELE, A., HINZ., S. (2014) Extraction of Building Parameters by SAR Radargrammetric Analysis of Layover Areas. Proc. 'IGARSS 2014- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium', Québec, Canada, 13-19 July 2014.

DUBOIS, C., THIELE, A., HINZ., S. (2014) Building Detection in TanDEM-X Data. Proc. 'EUSAR 2014, 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar', Berlin, Germany, 3-6 June 2014, ISBN 978-3-8007-3607-2, pp. 866-869.

2013

DUBOIS C., THIELE A., HINZ S. (2013): Pixel-Based Approach for Building Heights Determination by SAR Radargrammetry. Proc. 'CMRT13- City Models,Road and Traffic Workshop 2013', Antalya, Turkey, 12 – 13 November 2013, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences , Volume II-3/W3, pp.19-24.

DUBOIS C., THIELE A., HINZ S. (2013): Towards Change Detection in Urban Area by SAR Interferometry and Radargrammetry. Proc. 'ISPRS Hannover Workshop 2013', Hannover, Germany, 21 – 24 May 2013, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-1/W1, pp. 99-104.

THIELE, A., DUBOIS, C., WURTH, M.M., HINZ, S. (2013) Extraction of Buildings from TanDEM-X Data. Proceedings 'TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X Science Meeting'.

DUBOIS, C., THIELE, A., HINZ., S. (2013) Fusing Interferometric and Radargrammetric TerraSAR-X Data for Change Detection in Urban Areas. Proceedings 'TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X Science Meeting'.

2012

DUBOIS C., THIELE A., HINZ S. (2012): Adaptive Filtering of Interferometric Phases at Building Location. Proc. 'IGARSS 2012- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium', Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012, ISSN 2153-6996, pp. 6625 – 6628.

•  Fellowships

 2020-2021: Fellowship for innovations in digital education in Thuringia

• Awards

2012: AFT 2011 (Association Française de Topographie, French Association of Topography) : Best Student Paper Award

2011: Award of the Ludwig-Lenz Foundation for outstanding work during Master Degree.