The first flyable days of the new year were used to train our new staff members Elio Rauth and Baturalp Arisoy in UAS data collection. We are happy that both will join the EORC UAS team. Dr. Mirjana Bevanda explained them the different systems and payloads, from small UAS systems up to large M600 or VTOL systems. Also the different payloads, multi-spectral, thermal and Lidar, were introduced, including their specific properties. However, the actual flight mission planning and sensor geometry settings were the focus of this day, in order to take advantage of the good weather. Our new pilots started with small Mavic multi-spectral and thermal systems and will progress in the next weeks and months to the larger systems to cover 700ha and more. Actual experiences are critical within UAS data collection, hence Elio and Baturalp will assist in actual field data collections and analysis of on-going projects from Antonio, Jakob and Mirjana to be able to take over the responsibility to fly within their own study sites soon.
Once a year, or at least that's the idea, the Institute of Geography packs up and heads out to a remote place, this time Burg Rothenfels, an old castle not far from Würzburg, to spend a weekend doing something that almost never happens in the day to day grind:...
Last week the faculty held its formal graduation ceremony, and EORC and EAGLE were well represented on stage. Two of our PhD students, Dr. Ariane Droin and Dr. Johannes Mast, both joint the ceremony for their doctoral degrees, and it was great to see them walk across...
Last weekend, EORC PI Florian Betz has partipated in an excursion to the source of the Lech River in the Austrian Alps, where a mixed group of mucisians, river activists and people interested in music, water or both came together to explore how music can...
Let's be honest about something: AI chatbots are not coming to our courses and our research. They are already here, and they have been for a while. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, whatever your tool of choice is, our students have been using these things for...
Is it possible to combine the efficiency of a fixed-wing drone with the precision of a laser scanner? That question brought researchers from EORC together with Wingtra, a Swiss company designing and manufacturing fixed-wing UAS, to exchange on UAS research and discuss...
Every research group that's ever bought a drone has a story about the first one it lost. We're no different. So let's just get that out of the way up front: this is the inside story of how UAS (Unoccupied Aerial System) research grew up at the Earth Observation...
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