Our EAGLE Prince Lartey Lawson successfully defended his Master’s thesis today (April 30th) titled “” Unmasking the Shadow Economy in Ghana: Mapping the Distribution of Umbrella Covered Informal Vendors In Kumasi”. From the abstract of his thesis: Informal trade in sub–Saharan Africa is still prevalent and for such businesses to transition towards sustainability, reliable information reflecting their extent is crucial. In this study, data from Unmanned Aerial System campaigns executed from 2017 to 2023 were repurposed for the detection and quantification of informal trade activities canopied ..read more

Our EAGLE students that took and passed our Introduction to spatial programming course had to submit an R package that applies spatial methods for a variety of Earth Observation data. We are very proud to show the huge diversity of very interesting and useful R package by our students. Packages for deriving information about hiking trails around point of interest, tree mapping, spatial animations or climate data retrieval. Browse the various git repositories of our EAGLE submissions: github.com/xxguisseppe/coriM github.com/gokceyagmurbudak/UrbanSprawlExploreR github.com/Elin-G/hike4u github.co ..read more

On Tuesday, April 30, Wilmer Fabián Montién Tique has successfully defended his master thesis titled “Flood susceptibility mapping using remote sensing and geospatial data in West Africa“.   Here is the abstract of the thesis: Floods in West Africa represent a challenging risk scenario that requires comprehensive action from stakeholders and the local community. To this end, precise and up-to-date data, alongside periodic hazard, susceptibility, and risk mapping, are crucial to understand flood disasters for decision-making. Hence, this master thesis aims to obtain flood susceptibility m ..read more

A new publication on “Predicting resilience of migratory birds to environmental change” jointly with the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Section Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems and others was just published. From the abstract: “The pace and scale of environmental change represent major challenges to many organisms. Animals that move long distances, such as migratory birds, are especially vulnerable to change since they need chains of intact habitat along their migratory routes. Estimating the resilience of such species to environmental changes ..read more

Today our EAGLE object based image analysis (OBIA) started, taught by our colleague Dr Michael Wurm, team leader at the DLR Earth Observation center GZS department.  Michael is covering the theory and practice of OBIA in his class and thereby broadening the skills of our international EAGLE Msc students. Being familiar with a range of coding environments and remote sensing data types plus related Earth Observation analysis routines, this topic of OBIA is offering another relevant topic in our field of research.  The post Object oriented image classification course appeared f ..read more

Our EAGLE M.Sc. student Konstantin Müller successfully completed a three-month internship at The International Research Institute for Disaster Science (IRIDeS) in Japan. IRIDeS is a leading institute dedicated to advancing research and understanding in the field of disaster science, playing a vital role in disaster prevention, mitigation, and response. This internship provided him with the unique opportunity to dig into IRIDeS ‘s work and contribute to ongoing research efforts while experience the cultural aspects and the way of living at the east coast in Japan.   While the internship i ..read more

Within the ERASMUS+ staff mobility program that the University of Würzburg offers its employees, our administrative assistant Sabine Oppmann had the chance to be part of the International Staff Week at PSL Université in Paris to exchange and network with colleagues from all over Europe on how to support international communities at their universities. The workshops covered a wide range of topics and ideas around the special support international students and researchers need. Her work with students and researchers from all over the world at the Department of Remote Sensing will surely benefit ..read more

On Tuesday, May 07, at 12:00 Ronja Seitz will present her internship presentation on “Application of Geospatial Science in Reinsurance ” in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: I used the opportunity of my mandatory internship to enter an entirely different field in comparison to my previous work experiences, the reinsurance sector. I stayed for 6 month full-time at the biggest reinsurer worldwide – the MunichRe, at their headquarters in Munich. The focus of my department laid on providing internal services related to spatial data including internal tools, data analysis or ..read more

First Call for Papers for the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE 2025   JURSE 2025, the 17th International Conference on Joint Urban Remote Sensing, organized by Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM), invites to explore the future of sustainable development. Marking the first JURSE conference held in Africa, this event brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to exchange ideas, showcase groundbreaking advancements, and navigate the challenges facing our cities.   JURSE 2025 focuses on exploring innovative applicatio ..read more

Yrneh Zarit Ulloa Torrealba was awarded a scholarship from #LaKoF Bayern for the period April 2024 – March 2025.   This scholarship enables our PhD candidate to develop her research for detecting solid waste in urban areas, using the power of images, texts and artificial intelligence. Her PhD is in collaboration with our Earth Observation Research Cluster at the university of Würzburg, the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and the Munich University of Applied Sciences.       The post Yrneh Zarit Ulloa Torrealba was awarded a scholarship ..read more