Next year marks a very special milestone for us. The Department of Remote Sensing is turning 25! Together, we’ll also celebrate 10 years of the EAGLE MSc program and 5 years of the Department of Global Urbanisation and Remote Sensing. These anniversaries represent decades of curiosity,…

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen and our Earth Observation Research Cluster of the University of Würzburg teamed up for a study on decoding stress in urban public spaces. The…

Stepping into the foyer, visitors are now greeted by large, striking images that tell the story of our research through data. Each visual represents a unique scientific perspective – from the Arctic to the cultivated landscapes of Bavaria, and from forest canopies to urban environments. These…

Great to see our #EarthObservation #uas data and results on display .... #remotesensing #uav #forest #snow #ice

Big congratulations to Sonja Maas, who successfully defended her Master thesis today on the highly relevant and increasingly pressing topic: “Comparing LiDAR-Based Acquisition Strategies for Forest Management Planning in a Mature Beech Stand.” Supervised by Dr. Julian Fäth and Prof. Dr. Tobias…

Our students are exploring some great #rstats packages like #patchwork and #ggplot using #positron @posit.co

Exploring the power of #ggplot #rstats in our EORC EAGLE courses ...

Today we cover #ggplot graphics in #rstats within our #earthobservation #eagle msc program- quite powerful plotting options

On November 18, 2025, Angie Torres will present her internship at ” Detecting Wildfires in Brandenburg, Germany” at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: Wildfires have become an increasing concern in Germany, particularly in the region of Brandenburg, where dry summers…

The Science Slam is always an event! The 2025 edition – https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/alumni/aktuelles/science-slam/science-slam-2025/slammer-innen-2025/ – took place at the University of Würzburg in front of another sold-out audience. It was a very humorous evening in which science was presented in…

The International Land Use Symposium 2025 (https://ilus2025.ioer.info/) took place in Dresden, Germany from the 6th to the 7th of November. Our colleagues from our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) and the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) contributed three…

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 thought-provoking questions were at…

Researchers from the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Department of Geography of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn and our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) of the Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg teamed up on a…

Two days ago, our PostDoc @schwalb-willmann.de visited the Institute for Geoinformatics at University of Münster on invitation by @edzer.bsky.social and Johannes Heisig to give a talk at the GI forum on using animals to classify land use.

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 University of Göttingen and HSWT…

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 important for life on earth as we know…

At the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and at our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at the University in Würzburg, we are proud of the achievements of our former doctoral researchers. Recently Dr. Ines Standfuß and Dr. Jeroen Staab, who have successfully…

today our postdoc @schwalb-willmann.de will talk at the GI forum in Münster about the power of #animaltracking data for innovative #earthobservation information @edzer.bsky.social @jakubnowosad.com Hanna Meyer - thanks for the invite!

The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS) of the University of Würzburg has organized a two-day AI conference, as a form of “scientific opening” of the Center. This two-day event took place on October 29-30, 2025 at the University of Würzburg:…

Our #EarthObs EAGLE students are exploring the potential of #opensource #scientific software like #QGIS with theme style options, tanaka style, globe overview map ....

Last week, EORC employees Sebastian Buchelt and Jakob Schwalb-Willmann taught a three-day block course on UAV remote sensing of the cryosphere in the UNIS Master’s course "Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere" on invitation by Assoc. Prof. Eero Rinne.

This year, the popular Science Slam of the University of Würzburg is celebrating its tenth anniversary – a great reason to host not just one, but two exciting evenings: Friday, 7 November 2025, 7:00–9:00 p.m. – the regular competition Saturday, 8 November 2025, 7:00–9:00 p.m. – the “Best of” from…

In diesem Jahr feiert der beliebte Science Slam der Universität Würzburg zum zehnten Mal statt – Grund genug, gleich zwei spannende Abende zu veranstalten: Freitag, 7. November 2025, 19:00–21:00 Uhr – der reguläre Wettbewerb Samstag, 8. November 2025, 19:00–21:00 Uhr – „Best of“ aus zehn Jahren…

🎤 The Uni Würzburg Science Slam is just around the corner – and tickets are almost gone! 🏃‍♀️💨 We’re excited that Prof. Hannes Taubenböck, last year’s winner, will open the evening with his slam talk. Don’t miss it! 🌍✨ 🎟️ Grab your ticket before it’s too late! @uni-wuerzburg.de #earthobs #gischat

CONAE (Spanish: Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales) is the civilian agency of the government of Argentina in charge of the national space programme. CONAE plays also a key role in education and training in Argentina and the region, offering a variety of programs to develop technical skills…

As part of their current research and teaching stay at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) on Svalbard, Dr. Jakob Schwalb-Willmann and Sebastian Buchelt held a guest lecture on UAV remote sensing for Arctic population ecology, showcasing the use of remote sensing for ecology research. Invited…

The Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) invites you to a talk by Prof. Dr. Alexander V. Prishchepov from the University of Copenhagen (Section Geography) and Research Fellow at the University of Giessen, entitled “Studying land-use transitions: Revealing patterns, drivers and implications of…

Last week, our EORC Professor Dr. Tobias Ullmann gave an invited talk at the Geographische Gesellschaft Würzburg (GGW). His presentation, titled “100 Years of Remote Sensing in Germany”, offered an insightful overview of the evolution of Earth observation — from its early beginnings to its current…

This week, representatives of our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) and Informatics, Prof. Marco Schmidt, met with members of the Industrie- und Handelskammer (IHK) Würzburg-Schweinfurt namely Dr. Kagerbauer and Mr. Freitag to discuss the growing potential of Earth observation technologies…

Last week, EORC employees Jakob Schwalb-Willmann and Sebastian Buchelt travelled to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, for a two-week research and teaching stay on the high-arctic island. Invited by our collaborators and colleagues Assoc. Prof. Larissa Beumer (Arctic biology) and Assoc. Prof. Eero Rinne…

Since this week, Dr. Maksim Kulikov from the University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, arrived as visiting scientist at the Earth Observation Research Cluster. Dr. Kulikov is a research fellow at the University of Central Asia’s Mountain Societies Research Institute where he is broadly working on…

The Scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas-Hetania in Würzburg has invited Hannes Taubenböck to give an evening lecture in their seminar series on the 22nd of October 2025. He presented a lecture titled “Diagnose »homo sapiens« – Was sehen Erdbeobachtungssatelliten und wie kann das der…

Researchers from the Geography Department of the Humboldt-University Berlin in Germany, the Helmholtz AI as well as the Institute of Epidemiology of the Helmholtz Zentrum München in Neuherberg, the Institute for Medical Information Processing of the LMU Munich, the Earth Observation Center (EOC) as…

Our #EarthObs EAGLE students are exploring the power of #QGIS for raster and vector manipulation and display in our courses at @uni-wuerzburg.de #openscience #opensource #remotesensing ##gischat @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

Today, Ariana Sofía Argüello Cordero successfully defended her EAGLE MSc thesis on “Modeling Urban Heat Exposure and Vulnerability Integrating Citizen Science and VHR Remote Sensing“.   Abstract: Global warming has increased the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme heat events worldwide,…

At the recent Betafor project meeting, our Earth observation research team presented our ongoing work with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and their potential for advancing ecological research. We focused on how multi-sensor, multi-scale, and multi-temporal UAS-based remote sensing can support…

Having informal coffee meetings and talking about work and beyond are a common part at our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) – these open, free-flowing discussions about a variety of topics sometimes develop into new interesting ideas, from novel research approaches to new methods of…

Our #EarthObservation EAGLE student Farimah is presenting her internship at #Gobabeb research institute doing various #desert research

Our eagle Henning presented leafloss modelling within his innovation laboratory- a part of his #earthobservation eagle studies

On Friday the 17th of October, we welcomed Martin Klotz and his Geospatial Solutions & Analytics Team of the Allianz SE Reinsurance – Cat Risk Management at DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen.   In an inspiring guest lecture titled “Natural hazards – From research to insurance coverage“, Martin Klotz and…

What better way to start the semester than by climbing some walls and breaking the ice—literally and figuratively? Today, we hosted our first social event of the semester at the local boulder gym: Rock-In! It was a relaxed morning designed to bring everyone together—new students, older EAGLE…

We updated our #EarthObservation starter pack - still colleagues or institution missing? Let us know! go.bsky.app/NTaULGx

At the 14th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing – Agriculture, held from 29 September to 3 October in Thessaloniki, researchers, early-career scientists, and experts from across Europe gathered to exchange knowledge on the latest advances in remote sensing for agricultural monitoring.…

On October 21, 2025, Ariana Sofía Argüello Cordero will present her Master Thesis on ” Modeling Urban Heat Exposure and Vulnerability Integrating Citizen Science and VHR Remote Sensing” at 13:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a From the abstract: Global warming has increased the frequency,…

On October 21, 2025, Farimah Abdolzadeh will present her internship at ” Gobabeb Namib Research Institute ” at 12:30 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. Farimah has just completed her internship at the Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, located in the heart of the Namib Desert, tthe world’s…

On October 21, 2025, Henning Riecken will present his Innolab results on ” Modeling Tree-Level Beech Leaf Loss in Bavaria Under Climate Stress with Multimodal Deep Learning Architectures ” at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: European beech (Fagus sylvatica) is a key…

As the autumn term begins and the leaves turn golden across Europe, we are pleased to welcome a fresh cohort of EAGLEs—our new MSc students in Earth Observation and Geoinformatics. This year’s group brings together curious minds from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds, united by a shared…

Researchers from the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen and our Earth Observation Research Cluster of the University of Würzburg teamed up for a study on global scaling of urban air quality. The paper titled “Global scaling of urban air quality”…

As in previous years, the next generation of EAGLE Master’s students from around the world gathered at the Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) on the first day of the winter term to begin their studies at the University of Würzburg. Prof. Dr. Tobias Ullmann warmly welcomed the new cohort and…

Over the weekend, EORC PI Florian Betz met with Martina Cecchetto and Riccardo Fumigalli from the University of Padua to conduct ambient sound recordings and collect photographs of the Lech River, one of the major tributaries of the upper Danube. The photographs and sound recordings will go into a…