Moritz Koch

• 2019-2021: MSc Climate&Environmental Sciences, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2015-2019: BSc physische Geographie, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Since 2019: PhD Student at AG GIS (Braun) & AG Glacier (Fürst) in the ITERATE project.

• N. Gourmelon, K. Heidler, E. Loebel, D. Cheng, J. Klink, A. Dong, F. Wu, N. Maul, M. Koch, M. Dreier, D. Pyles, T. Seehaus, M. Braun, A. Maier, V. Christlein, "Comparison Study: Glacier Calving Front Delineation in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images With Deep Learning," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2026.3685700
• Dreier, M., Koch, M., Gourmelon, N., Blindow, N., Steinhage, D., Wu, F., Seehaus, T., Braun, M., Maier, A., and Christlein, V.: IceAnatomy: a benchmark dataset and methodology for automatic ice boundary extraction from radio-echo sounding data, The Cryosphere, 19, 5337–5359, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5337-2025, 2025.
• Koch, M., Sommer, C., Blindow, N., Lutz, K., Skvarca, P., Ruiz, L., Rizzoli, P., Bueso-Bello, J.-L., Fürst, J.F., Braun, M. The state and fate of Glaciar Perito Moreno Patagonia. Commun Earth Environ 6, 572 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02515-7
• Koch, M., Seehaus, T., Friedl, P., Braun, M. Automated Detection of Glacier Surges from Sentinel-1 Surface Velocity Time Series—An Example from Svalbard. Remote Sensing. 2023; 15(6):1545. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15061545

• WS 2023/2024: Geländeseminar Fränkische Schweiz
• Hauptseminar Physische Geographie: Climate change and natural hazards in high mountain regions

Abschlussarbeiten:

2025 - Master thesis:

Identification of Surge-Type Glaciers in Alaska, Yukon, and High Arctic Canada: Detecting Anomaly Clusters in Gridded Glacier Ice Velocity Datasets - M. Maulwurf

Bachelor thesis:

Das Südpatagonische Eisfeld im Wandel: Klimawandel und Gletscherrückgang im größten temperierten Eisfeld der südlichen Hemisphäre - H. Weydanz

Gletscherseeausbrüche (GLOFS): Mechanismen und Gefährdungsbewertung (am Beispiel Hochasien) - L. Leipold

My main focus of research encompasses geophyiscal measurements such as ground penetrating radar, remote sensing applications in a cryospheric context and deep learning applications for both geophyiscal and remote sensing data products. I am especially interested in high mountain regions and ice dynamics of water terminating glaciers.

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