Daniel Scherer, M.Eng. 
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut undLehrstuhl für Geodätische Geodynamik (Prof. Seitz)
Postadresse
Arcisstr. 21
80333 München
Tel.: +49 (89) 23031-1109
Fax.: +49 (89) 23031-1240
daniel.scherer@tum.de
Research Area
Satellite altimetry over inland waters
Academic Career
- since 10/2019, Research associate at Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der TU München (DGFI-TUM)
- 10/2017 - 09/2019, Master Degree in Geomatik at the Hochschule München (M.Eng.)
- 10/2013 - 09/2017, Bachelor Degree in Kartographie und Geomedientechnik at the Hochschule München (B.Eng.)
Publications
2023
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: ICESat-2 river surface slope (IRIS): A global reach-scale water surface slope dataset. Nature Scientific Data, 10(1), 359, 10.1038/s41597-023-02215-x, 2023
(Open Access)
(Open Access)
Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Passaro M., Hart-Davis M.G., Scherer D., Müller F.L., Bosch W., Seitz F.: OpenADB: DGFI‐TUM's Open Altimeter Database. Geoscience Data Journal, 10.1002/gdj3.233, 2023
(Open Access)
Schwatke C., Halicki M., Scherer D.: High-Resolution Water Surface Slopes from Multi-Mission Satellite Altimetry (data). Zenodo, 10.5281/zenodo.7709474, 2023
(Open Access)
2022
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F. : ICESat-2 Based River Surface Slope and Its Impact on Water Level Time Series From Satellite Altimetry. Water Resources Research, 58(11), 10.1029/2022WR032842, 2022
(Open Access)
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F. : IRIS: ICESat-2 River Surface Slope (data). Zenodo, 10.5281/zenodo.7098113, 2022
(Open Access)
2020
Dettmering D., Ellenbeck L., Scherer D., Schwatke C., Niemann C.: Potential and Limitations of Satellite Altimetry Constellations for Monitoring Surface Water Storage Changes - A Case Study in the Mississippi Basin . Remote Sensing, 12(20), 3320, 10.3390/rs12203320, 2020
(Open Access)
(Open Access)
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: Long-Term Discharge Estimation for the Lower Mississippi River Using Satellite Altimetry and Remote Sensing Images. Remote Sensing, 12(17), 2693, 10.3390/rs12172693, 2020
(Open Access)
(Open Access)
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Krzystek P.: Estimation of River Discharge Using Satellite Altimetry and Optical Remote Sensing Images. Publikationen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation e.V., 29, 497-504, 2020
(Open Access)
2019
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: Automated Extraction of Consistent Time-Variable Water Surfaces of Lakes and Reservoirs Based on Landsat and Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing, 11(9), 1010, 10.3390/rs11091010, 2019
(Open Access)
(Open Access)
Posters/Presentations
2023
Dettmering D., Schwatke C., Scherer D.: Satellitenaltimetrie zur Vermessung von Oberflächengewässern aus dem Weltraum. Kolloquium Geodäsie und Fernerkundung 'Nutzung von geodätischen und fernerkundlichen Methoden für das Monitoring von Gewässern', BfG, Koblenz, Bundesamstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz, 2023
Halicki M., Schwatke C., Scherer D.: High-resolution water surface slope of Polish rivers from multi mission satellite altimetry. 40th International School of Hydraulics, Katy Rybackie, Poland, 2023
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: Estimating Discharge of Narrow Rivers Using Satellite Altimetry and Optical Imagery. 5th Space for Water Cycle and Hydrology Workshop, HYDROSPACE 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: IRIS Version 2: Global River Surface Slopes from ICESat-2. 5th Space for Water Cycle and Hydrology Workshop, HYDROSPACE 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
(Poster)
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: IRIS: Global River Surface Slopes from ICESat-2 and its Contribution to SWOT. SWOT Science Team Meeting, Toulouse, France, 2023
(Poster)
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: IRIS: Global River Surface Slopes from ICESat-2. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-8652, 2023
(Poster)
Schwatke C., Halicki M., Scherer D.: Generation of high-resolution water surface slopes from multi-mission satellite altimetry. 5th Space for Water Cycle and Hydrology Workshop, HYDROSPACE 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
Schwatke C., Halicki M., Scherer D.: High-resolution water surface slope of Polish rivers from two decades of multi-mission satellite altimetry measurements. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11956, 2023
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: DAHITI - Satellite-derived Hydrological Products for Monitoring the Global Water Cycle. 2nd Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting, United Nations - Office for Outer Space Affairs, Online, 2023
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: SWOT for Monitoring Terrestrial Water Storage Changes: Quality Assessment and Combination with other Remote Sensing Data. SWOT Science Team Meeting, Toulouse, France, 2023
(Poster)
2022
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D: Estimating Water Surface Slope of Rivers Using ICESat-2 Observations. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4110, 2022
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: DAHITI - Deriving hydrological products for inland waters using remote sensing and future integration of SWOT data. SWOT Science Team Meeting, Chapel Hill, USA and Toulouse, France and online, 2022
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: DAHITI - How can satellite-derived hydrological products for monitoring the global water cycle benefit from SWOT?. SWOT Working Group 'River Science', online, 2022
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: DAHITI - How can satellite-derived storage changes for lakes and reservoirs benefit from SWOT?. SWOT Working Group 'Global Hydrology', online, 2022
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: DAHITI - Next generation of water level time series of inland waters. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, ESA, Bonn, 2022
(Poster)
2021
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D: Contributions of Cryosat-2 to Hydrological Applications: How DAHITI benefits from 10 years of LRM and SAR data from a long-repeat orbit mission. CryoSat 10th Anniversary Science Conference, Online, 2021
Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Scherer D.: DAHITI – Satellite-derived Hydrological Products for Monitoring the Global Water Cycle. 4th Hydrospace-GEOGloWS 2021, European Space Agency (ESA), Virtual Event, 2021
2020
Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D.: Estimation of River Discharge using Multi-Mission Satellite Altimetry and Optical Remote Sensing Imagery. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-2650, 2020
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: DAHITI - Hydrological Products for Monitoring the Water Cycle. EO for Water Cycle Science 2020, ESA, Online, 2020
(Poster)
2019
Dettmering D., Schwatke C., Scherer D., Ellenbeck L., Seitz F.: Satellitenaltimetrie: Wasserhöhen, Speichervolumen und Abflüsse aus dem Weltraum. Neue Perspektiven der Erdbeobachtung, DLR, Köln, Germany, 2019
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D., Ellenbeck L.: Estimating Long-Term Water Level Time Series of Inland Waters since 1984 by Combining Satellite Altimetry and Optical Remote Sensing Images. IUGG General Assembly 2019, Montreal, Canada, 2019
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: AWAX: A new Approach for Automated Extraction of Consistent Time-Variable Water Surfaces of Lakes and Reservoirs using Landsat and Sentinel-2. IUGG General Assembly 2019, Montreal, Canada, 2019
Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: DAHITI: Improving altimetry-derived water level time series of inland waters by a combination with optical remote sensing images from Landsat and Sentinel-2. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2019, Milan, 2019
(Poster)
Schwatke C., Scherer D.: Estimation of gap-less time series of inland waters` surface areas using Landsat and Sentinel-2. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2019, Milan, 2019
(Poster)
2018
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Florian Seitz
Technische Universität München
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München