Category: Agriculture
New project on agricultural production in Central Asia
In January 2015, a new project on Assessing Land Value Changes and Developing a...
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new PhD student: Talha Mahmood
We welcome Talha Mahmood as new PhD student in our department. He completed his Bachelors and...
Read MoreSatellite based locust habitat monitoring in the Aral Sea basin
The Central Asia research team at the Department of Remote Sensing, Würzburg University, recently started investigating potential risk areas for infestation of the Asian Migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratoria L., in the...
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Second WUEMoCA User Forum in Uzbekistan, November 7 and 8, 2019
Participants of the 2. WUEMoCA User Forum in Tashkent From 7th to 8th of November 2019, the second...
Read Morenew publication: Measuring rural settlement expansion in Uzbekistan using remote sensing to support spatial planning
In this publication we focused on methods to measure the outcome of population growth in rural Uzbekistan. Bi-temporal change detection based on 2.5m SPOT data gave insights into the competition for valuable land resources....
Read MoreSecond R training in Central Asia (LaVaCCA)
From June 29th to July 2rd, experts from the Department of Remote Sensing, Würzburg University, met their colleagues of the LaVaCCA project from KRASS, SIC-ICWC, and Al´Farabi University at the office of KRASS in Urgench,...
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successful first WUEMoCA Administrator Training
From October 24 to 27, the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg (Germany)...
Read MoreNew RapidEye datasets granted from RESA platform of DLR/Black Bridge
The Department of Remote Sensing recently applied for a time series of RapidEye scenes to support a PhD thesis by Christian Bauer (Dep. of Remote Sensing, Würzburg) in the context of the project LaVaCCA. The proposal has...
Read MoreNew publication: Analysing irrigated crop rotation patterns in arid Uzbekistan by the means of remote sensing: A case study on post-Soviet agricultural land use
General statements on continuous Soviet-style cotton cultivation in Uzbekistan are challenged. GIS analysis shows areas of diverse rotations but also cotton monocropping, focal points for improvements of the crop rotation...
Read MoreBest practice tutorial on handling low-budget UAV finished
Following the purchase and operaration of our two low-budget UAVs suring 2016 and 2017, a best practice tutorial of how to use the devices was written by Marius Röder, Steven Hill and Hooman Latifi, and it is now available in...
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PhD position: “Current and future crop yield levels – assessments based on remote sensing time series and climate model outputs”
This PhD project at the Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Geology focuses...
Read MoreEAGLE M.Sc. application deadline 2017 is approaching
The EAGLE MSc. application deadline for the upcoming winter term is approaching. Apply within the next 7 days: http://eagle-science.org/apply – all details about needed documents are listed on this page. Learn within EAGLE how...
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