New GeoSens Trainings at the Department of Remote Sensing – Registration is open
Would you like to learn more about integrating Earth observation data and especially remote sensing data in international collaboration and working with open-source tools such as QGIS and Google Earth Engine, in addition to exchanging ideas in an international...
Video contest on migration in West Africa
Our partner in the MIGRAWARE project CoKnow Consulting asks people from Ghana or Nigeria to participate in a Video contest: It is my pleasure to invite you to the Best Migration Video Contest of the MIGRAWARE project:https://www.servemebest.com/c/s/aBe In the...
WASCAL Director of Research at the Department of Remote Sensing
From 18th to 20th of June, the WASCAL Director of Research, Prof. Dr. Kehinde Ogunjobi, and the remote sensing expert at the WASCAL Competence Center (CoC), Dr. Kwame Hackman, paid a visit to the Department of Remote Sensing. The two days were efficiently used for...
AgriSens DEMMIN 4.0 field work – mission completed
Last week some EAGLE students ventured out for a field campaign at the Durable Environmental Multidisciplinary Monitoring Information Network (DEMMIN) test site to support us in the field work for the AgriSens DEMMIN 4.0 project funded by the Federal Ministry of Food...
The Department of Remote Sensing at the International Africa Festival 2022 in Würzburg
After two years of break, the International Africa Festival took place in Würzburg on the last weekend in May (26th to 29th of May). For three decades, the Africa Festival, the largest of its kind in Europe, has been a permanent fixture in the cultural events calendar...
ESA LPS 2022
Many of our staff members and nearly all our Earth Observation EAGLE M.Sc. students attended the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022 and explored the wealth of remote sensing applications within these 5 days. The LPS is the largest and most diverse earth observation...
UAS Lidar field work on Zugspitze
A first explorative UAS-based Lidar and thermal data acquisition was successfully finished and we received very interesting high resolution spatial data of the terrain including snow cover and especially rock structures. Flying UAS systems on nearly 3000m ASL and with...
New paper on degrees of urbanization
New paper titled „To be, or not to be ‘urban’? A multi-modal method for the differentiated measurement of the degree of urbanization” has been published by Taubenböck & Team. Abstract: Today, 56.6% of the world's population is urban and the trend is rising; in...
new publication on earth observation and socio-economy
Hannes Taubenboeck and colleagues published the article "Fusing Earth observation and socioeconomic data to increase the transferability of large-scale urban land use classification." in Remote Sensing of Environment. From the abstract: "Monitoring and understanding...
new publication on coast line dynamics
Ronja Lappe, a recent EAGLE graduate, published her thesis as article in Remote Sensing: "State of the Vietnamese Coast—Assessing Three Decades (1986 to 2021) of Coastline Dynamics Using the Landsat Archive". From the abstract: "Vietnam’s 3260 km coastline is densely...
LECTURE ON ADVANCED REMOTE SENSING TAUGHT AT FUT Minna, Nigeria
Our staff members Dr. Michael Thiel and Dr. Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt and Boris Ouattara taught a two-weeks (9st of May to 21st of May 2022) online course on Advanced Remote Sensing for PhD students at the Federal University of Technology (FUT) in Minna/Nigeria as part...
WASCAL-DE-COOP Workshop in 2022
For the second year in a row, WASCAL graduate students from the diverse WASCAL Graduate Schools in West Africa joined the workshop “Intercultural Competence – Communications with the German Research Landscape”. This workshop was provided virtually by colleagues from...
