New update from the field work of our PhD researcher Luisa Pflumm in Kruger National Park! After weeks of fieldwork in the open savanna, Luisa's work now moves into a more controlled setting, a burn chamber experiment carried out together with our collaborators from...

Big news at the EORC: as of today, October 1st, 2026, Stefan Dech is officially a senior professor at the University of Würzburg, and he's staying right where he belongs, with us at the EORC. Stefan will keep working with us on a whole range of Earth Observation...

On 30 September 2026, representatives from the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection (StMUV), the Bavarian Environment Agency (LfU), the EORC of the University Würzubrg (JMU), and the...

Our PhD candidate Luisa Pflumm is back in Kruger National Park for her third field campaign. Her PhD focuses on how savanna trees respond to combined fire and drought stress for which she is flying UAVs equipped with multispectral and LiDAR sensors. With this round of...

Congratulations to Henning Riecken, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on September 28, 2026: "Mapping and Structural Assessment of Woody Vegetation in Bavaria Using Digital Elevation Models and Multisource Geodata" Henning's thesis explores how newly available...