DGPF award for our EAGLE MSc Luisa Wagner

From Abandonment to Opportunity: Alexander V. Prishchepov Discusses Global Land Abandonment at the EORC

What are the main drivers and global patterns of farmland abandonment? How can remote sensing help address the challenges of studying farmland abandonment? In what ways might abandoned farmland contribute to biodiversity conservation and carbon reduction? These...

Visit at the Institute for Geoinformatics (IFGI) at University of Münster

Two days ago, our PostDoc Dr. Jakob Schwalb-Willmann visited the Institute for Geoinformatics at University of Münster to give a talk at IFGI’s GI Forum titled “Can animals be used to classify land use? Employing movement-tracked animals as environmental informants using deep learning”.

New publication on how tree size, neighbourhood composition and structure affect vitality of European beech after extreme drought

Our EO4CAM staff member Julia Rieder from the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) has just published an exciting new study in Forest Ecology and Management, based on the BeechDecline project coordinated by TU Dresden, in collaboration with colleagues from the...

Master Thesis Defense: „Comparing LiDAR-Based Acquisition Strategies for Forest Management Planning in a Mature Beech Stand”

On November 11, 2025, Sonja Maas will defend her master thesis on “Comparing LiDAR-Based Acquisition Strategies for Forest Management Planning in a Mature Beech Stand” at 12:30 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: Forests are inherently...

Guest lecture on UAV remote sensing of the cryosphere at UNIS, Svalbard

In the last two weeks, EORC employees Sebastian Buchelt and Jakob Schwalb-Willmann traveled to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, for a two-week research and teaching stay on the high-arctic island. There, they were hosted by the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in...

EOCap4Africa training in Ruhengeri

This week, over 25 students are attending a training session at the Institute of Applied Sciences (INES) in Ruhengeri, Rwanda, using the MSc module on Remote Sensing for Biodiversity Conservation that we developed. This module is part of the EOCap4Africa project...

DGPF award for our EAGLE MSc Luisa Wagner

DGPF award for our EAGLE MSc Luisa Wagner

DGPF award for our EAGLE MSc Luisa Wagner

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March 20, 2024

From Abandonment to Opportunity: Alexander V. Prishchepov Discusses Global Land Abandonment at the EORC

Visit at the Institute for Geoinformatics (IFGI) at University of Münster

New publication on how tree size, neighbourhood composition and structure affect vitality of European beech after extreme drought

Master Thesis Defense: „Comparing LiDAR-Based Acquisition Strategies for Forest Management Planning in a Mature Beech Stand”

Guest lecture on UAV remote sensing of the cryosphere at UNIS, Svalbard

EOCap4Africa training in Ruhengeri