The 2026 meeting of the German Working Group on Remote Sensing (AK Fernerkundung) took place on 7–8 October at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig, bringing together researchers and experts from across the remote sensing community. Under the theme “Earth Observation...

Jolien spent her internship in Kruger National Park in South Africa, working together with SANParks. She was part of an ongoing DFG project here at EORC that looks at how fire and drought shape savanna ecosystems. The project is led by Mirjana Bevanda and Tobias...

The CSU Working Group for Environment and Consumer Protection recently visited the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus (UFS) on the Zugspitze. The visit provided an opportunity to present current research activities connected to this unique high-alpine...

On 6 October 2026, the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) welcomed Stephan J. Schmidt from the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University for an EORC Talk on "Urban form and the heat island effect". Urban...

Most remote sensing work happens in the daylight, at a desk or in a field with a drone. Jolien Grafe, one of our EAGLE M.Sc. students, spent a good part of her internship doing the opposite: sitting on a hill at dusk, listening for a beeping signal from a very small,...

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...