Publications

An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis
“An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis” helps beginners getting started working with spatial data in QGIS and R.

Schwalb-Willmann, J., Castañeda-Gómez, A. J., Rauth, E., Buchelt, S., Jäger, L., Seitz, R., Pflumm, L., Klein, D., Dech, S., Ullmann, T., Wegmann, M., Lang, S., Beumer, L., & Bevanda, M. (2025). Potential of UAV-derived high-resolution snow depth mapping to advance arctic ecological research on Svalbard [Conference poster]. GfÖ Annual Meeting, 1st to 5th of September 2025, Würzburg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22712.00002

Castañeda-Gómez, A. J., Schwalb-Willmann, J., Klein, D., Dech, S., Wegmann, M., Müller, J., Ullmann, T., & Bevanda, M. (2025). Assessing multispectral data comparability between sentinel-2 and UAS imagery in the context of forest monitoring [Conference poster]. ESA Living Planet Symposium, 23st to 27th of June 2025, Vienna, Austria.

Müller, K.; Schwalb-Willmann, J.; Wegmann, M.; & Leutner, B. (2025). RStoolbox: An R Package for Remote Sensing Data Analysis [Conference poster]. ESA Living Planet Symposium, 23st to 27th of June 2025, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29464.46083

Müller, K., Sonntag, L., Bevanda, M., Castañeda-Gómez, A. J., Wegmann, M., Wigley, B., Coetsee, C., Klein, D., Dech, S., & Schwalb-Willmann, J. (2025). From Pixels to Paths: Animal Path Mapping using UAVs and a Deep Convolutional Neural Network—Insights from the Kruger National Park [Conference poster]. ESA Living Planet Symposium, 23st to 27th of June 2025, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34141.47840

Müller, K.; Schwalb-Willmann, J.; Wegmann, M.; & Leutner, B. (2025). RStoolbox: An R package for remote sensing data analysis. Methods Ecol Evol. 2025; 16: 486-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14451

Friedrich, C., Löw, J., Otte, I., Hill, S., Förtsch, S., Schwalb-Willmann, J., Gessner, U., Schierghofer, C., Truckenbrodt, S., Schonert, E., Piernicke, T., Assmann, D., Conrad, C., & Thiel, M. (2024). A multi-talented datacube: integrating, processing and presenting big geodata for the agricultural end user. Informatik in der Land-, Forst und Ernährungswirtschaft. Fokus: Biodiversität fördern durch digitale Landwirtschaft., 251–256. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/43882

Wegmann, M.; Schwalb-Willmann, J.; Dech, S. (2020). An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis: Remote Sensing and GIS with Open Source Software. Exeter, UK. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN: 9781784272135.

Schwalb-Willmann, J.; Remelgado, R.; Safi, K.; Wegmann, M. (2020). moveVis: Animating movement trajectories in synchronicity with static or temporally dynamic environmental data in R. Methods Ecol Evol. 2020; 11: 664–669. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13374