DGFI-TUM - Scherer, Daniel

Daniel Scherer, M.Eng.

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut und
Lehrstuhl für Geodätische Geodynamik (Prof. Seitz)

Postadresse
Arcisstr. 21
80333 München

Tel.: +49 (89) 289-23746
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

2024

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: Monitoring river discharge from space: An optimization approach with uncertainty quantification for small ungauged rivers. Remote Sensing of Environment, 315, 114434, 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114434, 2024 (Open Access)

Schwatke C., Halicki M., Scherer D.: Generation of High‐Resolution Water Surface Slopes From Multi‐Mission Satellite Altimetry. Water Resources Research, 60(5), 10.1029/2023wr034907, 2024 (Open Access)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Posters/Presentations

2025

Hart-Davis M., Scherer D., Schwatke C., Ray R., Sawyer A.: Rivers and Tides: a first global analysis from the SWOT satellite mission. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025, 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-3545, 2025

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: DAHITI: Monitoring of River Discharge in Ungauged Basins. SWOT Discharge Algorithm Working Group (DAWG) Workshop, Montpellier, France, and online, 2025

2024

David C.H., Cerbelaud A., Pavelsky T., Biancamaria S., Garambois P-A., Kittel C., Papa F., Bates P., Tourian M.J., Durand M., Frasson R., Oubanas H., Schumann G., Allen G., Tarpanelli A., Wongchuig S., Wade J., Tom M., Malaterre P-O., Crétaux J-F., Nielsen K., Elmi O., Schwatke C. , Scherer D., Dasgupta A., Munier S., Feng D. , Bauer-Gottwein P., Hossain F., Yamazaki D., Kitambo B., Mischel S. , Gal L., Paris A., Bonnema M., Verma K., Gleason C.J., Andreadis K., Picot N., Rodriguez E., Benveniste J.: Progress towards satellite and model requirements to capture water propagation in Earth’s rivers. American Geophysical Union 24 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 2024 (Poster)

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D, Seitz F.: IRIS: Global Reach-Scale River Surface Slopes from the ICESat-2 Satellite. FGS-Workshop 2024, Forschungsgruppe Satellitengeodäsie, 2024 (Poster)

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: ICESat-2 River Surface Slope (IRIS). 3rd ICESat-2 Applications Workshop, Greenbelt, USA and online, 2024

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: IRIS: Global Reach-Scale River Surface Slopes from the ICESat-2 Satellite. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2024, 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-5805, 2024 (Poster)

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: IRIS: Global Reach-Scale River Surface Slopes from the ICESat-2 Satellite. 30 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, ESA, Montpellier, France, 2024 (Poster)

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D.: Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI). FGS-Workshop 2024, Forschungsgruppe Satellitengeodäsie, Bad Kötzting, 2024

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Dettmering D.: SWOT and DAHITI. SWOT Science Team Meeting, Chapel Hill, USA, 2024

Scherer D., Schwatke C., Kluetmeier C., Pavelsky T., Dettmering D., Seitz F.: Comparison of SWOT and ICESat-2 Slopes Using In-Situ Data. SWOT Science Team Meeting, Chapel Hill, USA, 2024 (Poster)

Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Passaro M., Hart-Davis M., Scherer D., Müller F.L., Bosch W., Seitz F.: OpenADB: DGFI-TUM's Open Altimeter Database. 30 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, ESA, Montpellier, France, 2024

Schwatke C., Dettmering D., Passaro M., Hart-Davis M., Scherer D., Müller F.L., Bosch W., Seitz F.: OpenADB: DGFI-TUM's Open Altimeter Database. FGS-Workshop 2024, Forschungsgruppe Satellitengeodäsie, 2024 (Poster)

Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: Estimation of water level time series for lakes and rivers using SWOT KaRIn measurements. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024, European Geosciences Union, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-5830, 2024

Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering D.: Estimation of water level time series for lakes and rivers using SWOT KaRIn measurements. SWOT Working Group 'Lake, Estuary and Wetland', 2024

Schwatke C., Scherer D., Dettmering d.: DAHITI - Monitoring of Water Levels and Water Surface Slopes using SWOT KaRIn Measurements over inland waters. 30 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, ESA, Montpellier, France, 2024

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

Scherer D., Schwatke C.: Automated Extraction of Time-Variable Water Surfaces based on Google Earth Engine. Geodätische Woche, Frankfurt a. M., Germany, 2018

Schwatke C., Scherer D.: Automated Extraction of Time-Variable Water Surfaces based on Google Earth Engine. 2nd Mapping Water Bodies from Space Conference, ESA, Frascati, Italy, 2018

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Florian Seitz

Technische Universität München
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München