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.

Müller, K., Sonntag, L., Bevanda, M., Castañeda-Gomezm A. J., Wegmann, M., Wigley, B., Coetsee, C., Klein, D., Dech, S., Schwalb-Willmann, J. (2026). Automized segmentation of animal paths in UAS imagery using deep learning - a case study from the Kruger National Park. Ecological Informatics 2026; 93: 103570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103570

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