New Publication on Automated building characterization
A new publication by Hannes Taubenböck and colleagues is online about "Automated building characterization for seismic risk assessment using street-level imagery and deep learning". From the abstract: "Accurate seismic risk modeling requires knowledge of key...
Open Postdoc position on Megacities
Dear all, please find below an open Postdoc position with Hannes Taubenböck from our department. For the research project ‘Megacities – living environments of the future’, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, the Chair of English Linguistics at the...
New publication: Coverage and Rainfall Response of Biological Soil Crusts Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Data in a Central European Temperate Dry Acid Grassland
We are glad to share with you our newest publication on “Coverage and Rainfall Response of Biological Soil Crusts Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Data in a Central European Temperate Dry Acid Grassland” in the open-access journal Remote Sensing by MDPI. We...
new publication: Phenological Developments on Interferometric and Polarimetric Crop Signatures
Our staff member Johannes Löw published his EAGLE MSc. thesis results "The Impact of Phenological Developments on Interferometric and Polarimetric Crop Signatures Derived from Sentinel-1: Examples from the DEMMIN Study Site (Germany)" in Remote Sensing. From the...
New publication: Statistical Exploration of SENTINEL-1 Data, Terrain Parameters, and in-situ Data for Estimating the Near-Surface Soil Moisture in a Mediterranean Agroecosystem
I am happy to share my newest publication on “Statistical Exploration of Sentinel-1 Data, Terrain Parameters, and in-situ Data for Estimating the Near-Surface Soil Moisture in a Mediterranean Agroecosystem” in the open access journal Frontiers in Water by Frontiers...
Department of Remote Sensing awarded for insect-friendly cooperation
For German version see below Together with other collaborative partners, the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg was awarded for "Insect-friendly Cooperation" by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in the federal competition for...
UAV Lidar data Acquisition in the Alps
Lidar data on board one of our UAVs was acquired in the last field campaign early July for mapping forest structure in an alpine valley. The data delivered very good and interesting vertical information about the vegetation structure and the terrain of this...
new publication on Green Cities
Hannes Taubenböck and colleagues published their new article "Which city is the greenest? A multi-dimensional deconstruction of city rankings". from the abstract: "The question “which city is the greenest” sounds trivial, but in reality, this question contains...
Registration is Open!
We are happy to announce our Symposium for "Research and Capacity Development in West Africa - WASCAL and German Partners". This Symposium aims to inform about the achievements of the project and strengthen the network of West African researchers, stakeholders and...
R package for time-series animation of rasters
One of remote sensing's greatest strengths is its capability to deliver consistent and highly resolved time series. These have a wonderful potential for visualizations and analysis.Creating a fluid and pretty animation from a collection of tifs can be complicated, as...
Interested in Climate Change Research in West Africa?
Our Partner WASCAL is launching the new batch of the BMBF funded MSc and PhD program and you have the chance to apply for a scholarship! You have the choice between ten different PhD and two different MSc Programs in one of the countries of the ECOWAS region. The...
Who can live without chocolate?
Itohan-Osa Abu and Dr Michael Thiel, have published a paper in Ecological Indicators in cooperation with the partners at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) titled “Detecting cocoa plantations in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and their implications on protected areas“. From the...
