Rate My Professor Norman Kerle

Kerle's research specializes in remote sensing for hazards, risk, and disaster damage assessment using multi-type geodata, including UAV-based structural damage mapping, collaborative image-based damage mapping, landslide detection, and post-disaster recovery assessment combining remote sensing and macro-economic agent-based modeling. He chaired the GEOBIA 2016 conference hosted by the University of Twente/ITC and serves as Associate Editor for Remote Sensing (MDPI) and Editor for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. Key publications include "Object-oriented mapping of landslides using Random Forests" (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2011), "Lite-mono: A lightweight CNN and transformer architecture for self-supervised monocular depth estimation" (CVPR, 2023), and "Characterising spectral, spatial and morphometric properties of landslides for semi-automatic detection using object-oriented methods" (Geomorphology, 2010). He received the 2011 Lloyd's Science of Risk prize in the Natural Hazards category. Kerle teaches courses in advanced image analysis, quantitative remote sensing, and spatial data for disaster risk management, and supervises MSc and PhD students.