New DFG project on forest monitoring
A new DFG funded research group lead by Jörg Müller is starting this spring on forest monitoring. We will analyze different forests with different disturbances and history with airborne (UAS and plane) and space-borne Earth Observation in order to provide insights...
new publication Detecting Moving Trucks on Roads Using Sentinel-2 Data
Our EAGLE student Henrik Fisser published his M.Sc. thesis "Detecting Moving Trucks on Roads Using Sentinel-2 Data" in Remote Sensing. From the abstract: "In most countries, freight is predominantly transported by road cargo trucks. We present a new satellite remote...
New publication: Detection of Grassland Mowing Events for Germany by Combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Series
Our PhD student Sophie Reinermann published her work "Detection of Grassland Mowing Events for Germany by Combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Serie" in Remote Sensing. From the abstract: "Grasslands cover one-third of the agricultural area in Germany and play an...
Ph.D. student was awarded for his short talk and poster during the EGU Galileo Conference “Fire impacts at the Earth Surface Across space and time”
Boris Ouattara (Physical Geography and part of the WASCAL-DE-Coop project) presented his research on West African vegetation fire and its induced emission at the EGU Galileo Conference “Fire impacts at the Earth surface across space and time: perspectives for future...
Lecture on Advanced Remote Sensing taught at KNUST in Kumasi, Ghana
Our staff members Dr. Michael Thiel and Itohan-Osa Abu taught a two-week (21st of March to 01st of April 2022) course on Advanced Remote Sensing at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi/Ghana as part of the WASCAL Graduate Program on...
The Project WASCAL-DE-Coop at the Department of Remote Sensing goes into Extension
We are very pleased about the project extension of WASCAL-DE-Coop in 2022 and about the continuation of the excellent collaboration with the West Africa Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) in West Africa, the exchange with the...
Workshop Report at the Department of Remote Sensing – March 18, 2022
We are glad to announce our next workshop report at the Department of Remote Sensing. On the 18th of March, the MSc EAGLE student Andreas Bury will talk about “The QGIS GeoSens Data Access Plugin and Introduction to the RSDB Database Infrastructure”. Abstract QGIS...
new publication on biological earth observation
A new publication on biological earth observation "Biological Earth observation with animal sensors" was supported by us dealing with the potential of animal movement analysis for landscape monitoring. From the abstract "Space-based tracking technology using low-cost...
Field campaign in Côte d’Ivoire by a Ph.D. student of the Department of Remote Sensing
In November 2021, Dan Kanmegne Tamga, a Ph.D. student within the WASCAL-DE-Coop project at the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg, went for a field campaign to Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. Dan Kanmegne Tamga is working on estimating carbon...
New Publication on analyzing deforestation in continental Ecuador
We are glad that a new research article has been published in cooperation with our partners at Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg and with great support of two EAGLE students: Deforestation in Continental Ecuador with a Focus on Protected Areas The abstract:...
New Publication: Potential of Airborne LiDAR Derived Vegetation Structure for the Prediction of Animal Species Richness at Mount Kilimanjaro
We are glad to share with you our newest publication on “Potential of Airborne LiDAR Derived Vegetation Structure for the Prediction of Animal Species Richness at Mount Kilimanjaro ” in the open-access journal Remote Sensing by MDPI. From the abstract: The monitoring...
Field work season started with Lidar measurements
First actual field trip of the year with ALS and TLS measurements within one study site for forest health and climate impacts successfully finished. Huge potential for the UAS and terrestrial measurements of forest structure but the main work is still ahead of us -...
