From 19–21 September 2025, the Deutsche Waldtage took place all across Germany under the motto “Gemeinsam! Für den Wald” (“Together! For the Forest”). Foresters, forest owners, and many other actors connected to the forest invited people to join activities and events in their local woodlands. At…

Last week, EORC staff participated in and co-organized the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) Annual Symposium 2025, this year hosted at University of Würzburg. The symposium, attended by more than 600 people, covered a wide range of topics in ecology research with a focus…

Glad to share the time at #gfoe2025 with many of my nice colleagues of @earth-observation.org working at the interface of remote sensing and ecology, and who co-organized the conference. @jsrieder.bsky.social @msdhill0n.bsky.social

In late July, PhD student Julia Rieder and EAGLE student Henning Riecken (InnoLab) conducted field visits to several beech forest stands in Northern Bavaria. Their survey covered regions including the Rhön, the Steigerwald, and areas around Würzburg and Bayreuth, as part of the Beechdecline and…

Are you working with LiDAR or inventory data? Visit me at poster H07 at #LPS25 to find out more about our R package, TreeCompR, which provides solutions for quantifying tree competition!

Stop by our poster about the usage of the data fusion technology on analyzing key variables impacting agricultural biomass today at #LPS25 at T36

great group picture of our EORC staff and EAGLEs at ESA #LPS25 - a fantastic week with plenty of interesting discussions, talks and posters! #earthobs #eochat #remotesensing

Stop by our poster about drought monitoring in orchard meadows today at #LPS25 at B37

Having a blast at ESA's #LPS25 with @schwalb-willmann.de and a nice poster about animal paths 🐘 Swing by!

Try out or R package TreeCompR juliarieder.github.io/TreeCompR/ to quantify individual tree competition and have a look at the paper: