EAGLE Innolab Presentation: Post-Processing and Quality Assessment of Mapathon-Derived Mining Data for Cobalt Belt Mapping

On August 11, 2026, Espérance Kandjale will present her Innolab results on ” Post-processing and Quality Assessment of Mapathon-Derived Mining Data for Cobalt Belt Mapping ” at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: During my internship, I worked on the post-processing and quality assessment of Mapathon-derived mining data for the DRC […]

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Reports on the Bernd Rendel Prize won by Johannes Mast

We are delighted that Johannes Mast has been awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his original and promising geoscientific research carried out prior to his PhD. We had already reported on this: https://remote-sensing.org/johannes-mast-wins-bernd-rendel-prize/ Now, our university and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have also reported on it. Please read […]

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University press covered our anniversaries

Einblick, the University of Würzburg’s press medium, published an article on our double anniversary, 25 years of Earth observation research and 10 years of EAGLE M.Sc. program, today. Recently, they has visited us at our EORC to hear about our research and teaching and to talk to some of our staff and students. For the […]

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Nine years of mapping urban poverty: A globally distrubted building footprint dataset is now available

What began with a diploma thesis by Nicolas J. Kraff on the physical structure of slums in Mumbai, India, in 2011 has now culminated in a globally distributed dataset of building footprints covering 44 poverty and informal settlement areas across four continents. Between 2011 and 2020, the mapping work developed from the analysis of individual […]

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Mapping Lava Tubes on Mauritius with iPhone Pro LiDAR

Lava tube structures on Mauritius are quite hard to survey – tight, dark, and largely inaccessible to classical scanning equipment. As part of ongoing research by Dr. Kim Lea Holzmann (Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg), we’re excited to be collaborating on testing whether low-cost LiDAR-scanners, like the recent iPhone Pro […]

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Lecturer Spotlight: Michael Wurm

Michael’s the guy you want in front of the class when it’s time to actually open up an image and start segmenting it. At EAGLE he teaches the urban side of things: environmental exposure, pollutants, green space, noise, traffic, air pollution, urban heat islands. And that’s not some random assignment, it’s literally what he does […]

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Johannes Mast wins Bernd Rendel Prize

Johannes Mast, who finished his PhD earlier this year, supervised by Hannes Taubenböck, has been awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize 2026, one of two young researchers honored this year (the other is Sara Nazari, who works on global groundwater at ZMT Bremen and Kiel University). The prize goes to geoscience PhD students for original, promising […]

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EAGLE Internship Presentation: Groundwater Level Trends in Germany: A National-Scale Assessment Using In-Situ Monitoring Data and GRACE Satellite Products

On August 04, 2026 Anugraha Das will present her internship results on ” Groundwater Level Trends in Germany: A National-Scale Assessment Using In-Situ Monitoring Data and GRACE Satellite Products” at 12:00 at the seminar room 3 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: Germany is among the most groundwater-stressed countries in Central Europe, with sustained multi-year […]

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Two days of celebration, and a hundred hands behind it

We’ve written plenty about the EORC 25th and EAGLE 10th anniversary already, the timeline, the talks, the EAGLE panel discussion, the exhibition. But there’s a story we haven’t told yet, and it’s honestly the one that matters at least as much. Because none of it just happens. Somebody has to carry the tables outside and […]

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From Banner to Pencil Case: Our Anniversary Banner gets a Second Life

Anyone who was at the big celebration on July 16th remembers the banner. Big, 1 by 4 meters, printed for the occasion: 25 years of EORC and 10 years of EAGLE, a huge strip of fabric. It did its job beautifully for the weeks before the event and especially for our two days of celebration. […]

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Earth Observation Meets Agricultural Practice: The Final Excursion of the EAGLE Block Course

The EAGLE block course “Linking Science and Practice in Earth Observation for Climate Adaptation” concluded with a visit to the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (LfL) and its Research Center for Agriculture in Arid Regions in Schwarzenau. Following earlier visits to the Government of Lower Franconia and the University Forest in Sailershausen, the final […]

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Earth Observation Meets Agricultural Practice: The Final Excursion of the EAGLE Block Course

The EAGLE block course “Linking Science and Practice in Earth Observation for Climate Adaptation” concluded with a visit to the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (LfL) and its Research Center for Agriculture in Arid Regions in Schwarzenau. Following earlier visits to the Government of Lower Franconia and the University Forest in Sailershausen, the final […]

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Lecturer Spotlight: Florian Betz

If you’ve spent any time around EORC, you’ve probably crossed paths with Florian at some point, maybe standing knee deep in a riverbed somewhere in Central Asia, or deep in conversation about river dynamics. Florian is a Principal Investigator at the Earth Observation Research Cluster, and his work sits right at the intersection of biogeomorphology, […]

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Small Gesture, Big Thanks: Chocolate in the Polar Bear Kitchen

Pulling off a party for 250 people doesn’t happen by magic. It happens because a bunch of people quietly say yes to the boring jobs, the carrying, the setting up, the standing around answering questions, the cleaning up afterward. Our combined 25th anniversary for EORC and 10th anniversary for EAGLE was one of those events […]

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From the lecture hall into the forest

A recent visit to the University Forest Sailershausen brought students together with Forest Management to discuss current challenges in forestry under a changing climate. Hosted by the head of the forest administration Daniel Kraus, the day combined presentations by the students, practical discussions, and a forest excursion, demonstrating how Earth observation can support sustainable forestry […]

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Can We Teach Everything Except the Most Important Thing?

Over the past years, we have had many discussions within our research group and with colleagues at other universities about the changing culture in academia. These conversations often revolve around funding, publication pressure, career perspectives, or the increasing complexity of modern research. Yet another topic repeatedly emerges, often in informal conversations after meetings, field campaigns, […]

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Lecturer Spotlight: Celia Baumhoer

Celia’s the person who got an entire generation of EAGLE students to care about ice they’ll probably never set foot on. She’s a postdoctoral researcher in the “Polar and Mountain Regions” team at DLR, and she teaches the EAGLE course “Earth Observation of Cold Regions”. This intensive block course takes students on a journey through […]

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Ministerial Visit: Federal Minister Dorothee Bär at the University Wuerzburg, and Why Earth Observation Was Part of the Story

We had a really special visit at the University of Würzburg on July 16: Germany’s Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space, Dorothee Bär, came to the Mission Control Center on Campus Hubland Nord by the Informatics Faculty, and we were glad to be part of the day. The visit was organized around a talk […]

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Linking Science and Practice: Exploring Earth Observation for Water Management

How can Earth observation support sustainable water management in times of climate change? This question was at the center of a recent visit by participants of the EAGLE block course “Linking Science and Practice in Earth Observation for Climate Adaptation” to the Department of Water Management at the Government of Lower Franconia. The visit offered […]

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EAGLE Innolab Presentation: Comparing intra-urban thermal patterns using high-resolution HotSat-1 and Landsat 8 data from 14 U.S. cities

On July 24, 2026, Wajiha Yasmeen will present her inno lab results on ” Comparing intra-urban thermal patterns using high-resolution HotSat-1 and Landsat 8 data from 14 U.S. cities ” at 12:00 at the EORC meeting room/1st floor in John-Skilton-Str. 4a From the abstract: Higher resolution thermal imagery is widely expected to improve the study […]

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Lecturer Spotlight: Simon Plank

Simon is the lecturer who teaches you what to actually do when a volcano starts erupting and someone needs answers in hours, not weeks. He is with the Natural Hazards team at DLR and runs the EAGLE MSc course “Risk and Disaster Earth Observation,” which is basically a crash course in turning satellite data into […]

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Call for Papers for JURSE 2027

The next Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE 2027 (https://jurse.org/) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July 2027 (https://www.jurse2027.org/). The Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE has always been one of the most important international conferences for our work at EORC and DLR – see e.g. here: https://remote-sensing.org/contributions-to-the-joint-urban-remote-sensing-event-jurse-2025-1/ […]

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“MainPro” working meeting on municipalities dealing with flooding and heavy rainfall

How do the municipalities in the Lower Franconian Main valley deal with flooding and heavy rainfall? This question was the focus of a working meeting of the Remote Sensing and Social Geography working groups on July 15, 2026, for the “MainPro” research project (Ecosystem-based solutions for hazard scenarios). Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rauh, Prof. Dr. Hannes […]

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EAGLE Internship Presentation: Detection of OffRoad Tyre Dumpsites at Mining Operations Using Sentinel-2 Imagery and Deep Learning Segmentation

On July 21, 2026, Wajiha Yasmeen will present her internship results on ” Detection of Off-The-Road Tyre Dumpsites at Mining Operations Using Sentinel-2 Imagery and Deep Learning Segmentation ” at 12:00 at the seminar room 3 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: Discarded off-the-road (OTR) tyres at mining sites represent a persistent environmental hazard, yet […]

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Four Paths, One EAGLE: An Alumni Plenary Worth Talking About

We got to sit in on something really special during our 10 year of EAGLE anniversary: a plenary discussion with four EAGLE alumni, moderated by Will, one of our 10th generation students. And honestly, it was one of those sessions where you look around the room and just feel the energy. Four very different career […]

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Pizza with a message

Twenty five years of EORC. Ten years of EAGLE. When you’re feeding 200 people at something like that, you could just order pizza and call it done. Nobody would blink. But it would be much more special if we, the EORC staff and our EAGLE students, do it ourself and a few people on the […]

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Spotlight on our Researchers: Tamilwai Kolowa

Tamilwai Kolowa is an external doctoral student at our EORC while being at the same time a Junior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden. His research explores how urban form and population dynamics interact to shape cities and regions across both European and African contexts. A central thread in his work […]

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