The EnMAP imaging spectroscopy mission towards operations

EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) is a high-resolution imaging spectroscopy remote sensing mission that was successfully launched on April 1st, 2022. Equipped with a prism-based dual-spectrometer, EnMAP performs observations in the spectral range between 418.2nm and 2445.5nm with 224 bands and a high radiometric and spectral accuracy and stability. EnMAP products, with a ground instantaneous field-of-view of 30m×30m at a swath width of 30km, allow for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of surface variables from frequently and consistently acquired observations on a global scale. This article presents the EnMAP mission and details the activities and results of the Launch and Early Orbit and Commissioning Phases until November 1st, 2022. The mission capabilities and expected performances for the operational Routine Phase are provided for existing and future EnMAP users

The EnMAP imaging spectroscopy mission towards operations

EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) is a high-resolution imaging spectroscopy remote sensing mission that was successfully launched on April 1st, 2022. Equipped with a prism-based dual-spectrometer, EnMAP performs observations in the spectral range between 418.2 nm and 2445.5 nm with 224 bands and a high radiometric and spectral accuracy and stability. EnMAP products, with a ground instantaneous field-of-view of 30 m x 30 m at a swath width of 30 km, allow for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of surface variables from frequently and consistently acquired observations on a global scale. This article presents the EnMAP mission and details the activities and results of the Launch and Early Orbit and Commissioning Phases until November 1st, 2022. The mission capabilities and expected performances for the operational Routine Phase are provided for existing and future EnMAP users

Introduction to embodied communication: why communication needs the body

Wachsmuth I, Lenzen M, Knoblich G. Introduction to embodied communication: why communication needs the body. In: Lenzen M, Wachsmuth I, Knoblich G, eds. Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2008: 1-28.The aim of this book is to launch and explore a new integrated and interdisciplinary perspective, the Embodied Communication Perspective. The embodied communication perspective creates a new framework to reinterpret empirical findings in the cognitive and neurosciences, and to integrate findings from different research fields that have explored similar topics without much crosstalk between them. At the same time, the embodied communication perspective can serve as a guide for engineers who construct artificial agents and robots which should be able to interact with humans

In den Schuhen des anderen: Simulation und Theorie in der Alltagspsychologie

Lenzen M. In den Schuhen des anderen: Simulation und Theorie in der Alltagspsychologie. Paderborn: Mentis; 2005

Demokratie morgen. Überlegungen aus Wissenschaft und Politik

Davy U, Lenzen M, eds. Demokratie morgen. Überlegungen aus Wissenschaft und Politik. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; 2013

Embodied communication in humans and machines

Wachsmuth I, Lenzen M, Knoblich G, eds. Embodied communication in humans and machines. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press; 2008.The aim of this book is to launch and explore a new integrated and interdisciplinary perspective, the Embodied Communication Perspective. The core claim of the Embodied Communication perspective is that human communication involves parallel and highly interactive couplings between communication partners. These couplings range from low-level systems for performing and understanding instrumental actions, like the mirror system, to higher systems that interpret symbols in a cultural context. The embodied communication perspective creates a new framework to reinterpret empirical findings in the cognitive and neurosciences, and to integrate findings from different research fields that have explored similar topics without much crosstalk between them. At the same time, the embodied communication perspective can serve as a guide for engineers who construct artificial agents and robots which should be able to interact with humans

Communication and cooperation in living beings and artificial agents

This chapter compares the communicative and cooperative behaviours of living and artificial beings. Highlighting similarities and differences between these behaviours provides better understanding of the phenomenon of communication and embodiment in communication in general. Living beings with their huge variety of communication behaviours take the lead to draw the most salient distinctions in both communicative and cooperative behaviours. These distinctions are applied to a variety of behaviours instantiated by artificial agents. A huge amount of cooperation, as it turns out, is possible without direct communication, which can be seen in simpler animals as well as in robots.</p

Imitation in embodied communication – from monkey mirror neurons to artificial humans

Kopp S, Wachsmuth I, Bonaiuto J, Arbib M. Imitation in embodied communication – from monkey mirror neurons to artificial humans. In: Wachsmuth I, Lenzen M, Knoblich G, eds. Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2008: 357-390.This chapter examines the roles imitation plays in embodied communication from two different perspectives. The ‘mirror system’ of the macaque brain is looked at in the first approach, which assesses models of neurons, which are active both when the test monkey performs a particular instrumental action, and when the test monkey sees another monkey or a human executing a similar action. In the second approach, a ‘virtual human’ is studied in order to make computationally explicit the ways in which enabling an artificial agent for imitation can help the agent attain better capabilities of communicating with humans. Both these efforts then serve to aid the discussion of the role of imitation, its underlying functions and mechanisms in communicative behaviour as well as in building a general theory of embodiment, which could both advance our understanding of human communication and patterns of communication between humans and future robots