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A Decade of Climate Research and Capacity Building in West Africa – Insights from WASCAL
Our colleagues Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt and Michael Thiel, together with partners from University of...
A Decade of Climate Research and Capacity Building in West Africa – Insights from WASCAL
Our colleagues Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt and Michael Thiel, together with partners from University of...
New Team Member: Sofia Haag
Sofia Haag joined the EORC in February 2025 as a research assistant for the EO4CAM project. After...
Advancing Forest Inventory: Field Trip to Sailershausen
Today, staff from the Earth Observation Research Cluster conducted a field trip to Sailershausen...
Exploring Wetland Ecosystems in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve
As part of our ongoing collaboration with our EOCap4Africa project partners, two members of the...
New Team Member: Sofia Haag
Sofia Haag joined the EORC in February 2025 as a research assistant for the EO4CAM project. After...
Our Contributions to the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025
This week, the global Earth observation community gathered in Vienna for the ESA Living Planet...
Exciting Milestone: Submission of Doctoral Theses
We warmly congratulate Ariane Droin and Dorothee Stiller on submitting their doctoral theses...
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EORC Staff and EAGLE Students at ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025
This week, our EORC team and EAGLE MSc students are joining the global Earth observation community...
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A Decade of Climate Research and Capacity Building in West Africa – Insights from WASCAL
Our colleagues Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt and Michael Thiel, together with partners from University of...
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New Research Published: A Spatial Decision Support System for Climate-Adapted Agriculture in West Africa
We are excited to announce the publication of a groundbreaking study titled “A Spatial...
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Our Contributions to the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025
This week, the global Earth observation community gathered in Vienna for the ESA Living Planet...
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“Super-Test-Site Würzburg” consortium meeeting
The core team of our “Super-Test-Site Würzburg” consortium (University of Würzburg, the Karlsruhe...
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Exciting Milestone: Submission of Doctoral Theses
We warmly congratulate Ariane Droin and Dorothee Stiller on submitting their doctoral theses...
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New paper on the digital divide in Africa’s cities published
Our team of researchers from the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center...
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Presentation at the Rotary Club Würzburg
After winning the Science Slam in Würzburg last year, the Rotary Club of Würzburg has invited...
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EAGLE Master Defense: Quantification of Plant Functional Groups and Disturbances of Tundra Vegetation in the High Arctic Using High-Resolution UAV Timeseries Data
On July 01, 2025, Ronja Seitz will present her Master Thesis on Quantification of Plant Functional...
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Geospatial Approach to Identifying Optimal Sites for Urban Acoustic Environment Research
Researchers from the Geographic Institute of the University of Würzburg and the Earth Observation...
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Successful fieldwork at the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan
During the last week, EORC PI Florian Betz, EAGLE student Ariana Arguello-Cordero and FluBig team...
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Alpine Earth Observation: Learning Remote Sensing Where Science Meets Nature
Last week, our Alpine Earth Observation course brought a group of EAGLE students high into the...
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EO4CAM Meeting in Oberpfaffenhofen
On 5 June 2025, representatives from the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer...
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Guest lecture by Jeroen Staab
At the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC), we had the honor of hosting Jeroen Staab today...
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EORC at the International Africa Festival 2025 in Würzburg
If you know Würzburg, you certainly know the International Africa Festival, Europe’s largest...
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EO4CAM meeting at LfU in Augsburg on grassland in Bavaria
As part of the EO4CAM project (Earth Observation Laboratory for Climate Adaption and...
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EAGLE Innolab: Development of a QGIS Plugin for the Planning of Ground-Mounted Photovoltaic Systems
On June 16, 2025, Georg Starz will present his Innolab results on ” Development of a QGIS...
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EAGLE Master Defense: Enhancing Land Cover Classification in Southern Africa Using Multi-Sensor and Multi-Algorithm Approaches
On June 10, 2025, Christobal Tobbin will present his Master Thesis on ” Enhancing Land Cover...
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New R Package Enhances UAS Research and Planning
We’re excited to share the development of a new R package created by our PhD student, Antonio...
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Radio Bavaria BR2 covered our activities at the Africa-Festival
Once again, our team proudly took part in the International Africa Festival in Würzburg,...
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New publication on universal patterns of intra-urban morphology
A new paper – led by Henri Debray – titled “Universal patterns of intra-urban...
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