Daniel Scherer, M.Eng.

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut und
Lehrstuhl 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

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

Scherer D.: Estimation of River Discharge using Satellite Altimetry and optical Remote Sensing Images. University of Applied Science Munich (M.Eng. Geomatik), Master Thesis, 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)

2017

Scherer D.: Automated Extraction of Time-Variable Water Surfaces with Cloud-Based Google Earth Engine. University of Applied Science Munich (B.Eng. Kartographie und Geomedientechnik), Bachelor Thesis, 2017

Posters/Presentations

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 - Next generation of water level time series of inland waters. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, Bonn, 2022 (Poster)
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 storage changes for lakes and reservoirs benefit from SWOT?. SWOT Working Group "Global Hydrology", 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

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, 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, 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, Köln, Germany, 2019
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)
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., 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., 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

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, Frascati, Italy, 2018

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