At the GIS-studio of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) at the University of Amsterdam, a project has been completed in which two maps (models) are produced in 3D using ArcGIS, Blender and a 3D printer. 3D printing is an emerging ...

Im außertropischen Südamerika haben nach der Zerstörung der natürlichen Vegetation durch die europäischen Siedler und ihre nicht nachhaltige Landnutzung irreversible Prozesse der Bodenerosion eingesetzt. Im mittelchilenischen ...

The use of surface digitization techniques andmethods in palaeontology has increased in the last twodecades, mainly due to recent improvements in devicesand software. However, many digitization efforts are pub-lished only ...

1. Humanity is facing a biodiversity crisis, with freshwater-associated biodiversity in a particularly dire state. Novel ecosystems created through human use of mineral resources, such as gravel pit lakes, can provide ...

Mapping vegetation as hard classes based on remote sensing data is a frequently applied approach, even though this crisp, categorical representation is not in line with nature's fuzziness. Gradual transitions in plant ...

The most common approach to assessing natural hazard risk is investigating the willingness to pay in the presence or absence of such risk. In this work, we propose a new, machine-learning-based, indirect approach to the ...

Accelerating climate change is causing considerable changes in extreme events, leading to immense socioeconomic loss of life and property. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of extreme climate events at a ...

2002 ist das Jahr der Geowissenschaften und allenthalben feiern sich Fachdisziplinen als Schwerpunktbereich geowissenschaftlicher Forschung. Aber welche Fächer gehören eigentlich zu den Geowissenschaften? Die Spannweite ...