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Research - M.Sc. Marcel Storch

The "Battle" of Hürtgen Forest

• Research area: Kall-valley (located in the Eifel in western Germany)
• Battle between American and German soldiers towards the end of World War II
• Problem: damage / loss of historical remains by illegal excavations, re-enactors and deforestation
• Objectives: Digital documentation of historical remains by generating high-resolution digital ground models out of UAV-LiDAR data, detect recent changes and automate the process of detecting terrain anomalies using image segmentation algorithms https://www.konfliktlandschaften.uni-osnabrueck.de/iak_working_paper_berichte/iak_short_report_nr_4.html

 
Dalum (Emslandlager)

• Research area: War cemetery Dalum (part of the Nazi labour camps known as “Emslandlager” located in Northwest Germany)
• Problem: The exact number of victims and the location of the graves are still unknown.
• Objectives: Evaluate the potential of UAV-LiDAR and terrestrial LiDAR for grave detection in combination with other non-invasive methods like ground penetrating radar, ground magnetometer. https://www.konfliktlandschaften.uni-osnabrueck.de/iak_working_paper_berichte/iak_short_report_nr_3.html

 
Project “Connecting Memory” – Netzwerk Erinnerung

• Cooperation with the "Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"
• Research area: Western Ukraine
• Problem: The exact locations of several Holocaust mass graves are still unknown.
• Objectives: Generate precise digital ground models out of UAV-LiDAR data acquired by a local company from Kyiv to aid in the detection and therefore the protection of these graves.
  www.stiftung-denkmal.de/aktuelles/werkstattbericht/netzwerk-erinnerung/