Job
Research Associate
Field of work
Sebastian Semella has been working as a research associate in the Resource Group at DBFZ since the end of 2021. He specializes in the analysis of the spatial distribution and characterization of biogenic resources using GIS, infrared spectroscopy, and remote sensing, as well as the automation of data analysis using R. In addition, he is actively involved in knowledge transfer and has experience in organizing, conceptualizing, and conducting e-teaching and on-site training sessions in Africa, particularly in the fields of GIS, remote sensing, and digital data collection.
Keywords
Ressource availability, automatisation in (geo-) data analysis, cartography, GIS, R, GIS teaching
My publications
Semella, S.; Hutengs, C.; Seidel, M.; Ulrich, M.; Schneider, B.; Ortner, M.; Thiele-Bruhn, S.; Ludwig, B.; Vohland, M. (2022). Accuracy and Reproducibility of Laboratory Diffuse Reflectance Measurements with Portable VNIR and MIR Spectrometers for Predictive Soil Organic Carbon Modeling. Sensors, 22(7), 2749.
Sittaro, F., Hutengs, C., Semella, S., Vohland, M. (2022). A Machine Learning Framework for the Classification of Natura 2000 Habitat Types at Large Spatial Scales Using MODIS Surface Reflectance Data. Remote Sensing, 14(4), 823.
Ortner, M., Seidel, M., Semella, S., Udelhoven, T., Vohland, M., Thiele-Bruhn, S. (2022). Content of soil organic carbon and labile fractions depend on local combinations of mineral-phase characteristics. Soil, 8(1), 113-131.
Khorshid, M. S. H., Kruse, J., Semella, S., Vohland, M., Wagner, J. F., Thiele-Bruhn, S. (2019). Phosphorus fractions and speciation in rural and urban calcareous soils in the semiarid region of Sulaimani city, Kurdistan, Iraq. Environmental Earth Sciences, 78(16), 1-14.
Curriculum vitae
| 2018 - 2021 | Research associate, Uni Leipzig |