It’s been a remarkable year for our research team! The PhD Wall of Fame, showcasing all past and current doctoral researchers, has officially reached its limits — and we’ve had to expand it to make room for even more success stories. So far six PhD defenses have taken place just this year, with several more […]

At our department, we not only work hard together — we also celebrate the milestones that make our team so special. This week, we had the joy of surprising our wonderful secretary Tine Linge on her 60th birthday! Early in the morning, colleagues gathered to prepare a cozy surprise breakfast complete with fresh pastries, a […]

The largest migration movement that mankind has ever experienced is in full swing. Across the globe, the population flow is moving from the countryside to the cities. This and many other factors cause our cities to grow, restructure, force them to adapt and much more. Earth observation with data from space is particularly suitable for […]

It’s time again for the Science Slam at our university in Würzburg! It will be held on 7 November 2025 in the evening at 7 pm in Z6. https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/alumni/aktuelles/science-slam/science-slam-2025/slammer-innen-2025/   It is a tradition that the winner of the previous year (we have reported on last year’s event: https://remote-sensing.org/hannes-taubenbock-represents-eorc-at-the-science-slam-and-wins/ ) opens the Science Slam the […]

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 our Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg teamed up for a study on rapid domain adaptation for disaster impact assessment. The paper titled “Rapid domain adaptation for disaster […]

The MIND Academy is an annual event, which takes place on the first weekend in October – this year in Mannheim. Over the four to five days, lectures from a wide range of scientific fields are organized under a specific overarching theme (this year it is World|Time|Space) – see here: https://pretalx.mind-hochschul-netzwerk.de/ma2025/schedule/   Our professor Hannes […]

At SilviLaser 2025 in Québec City, PhD candidate Julia Rieder (EORC, University of Würzburg and staff member of EO4CAM) presented her work on “European Beech under Drought: Effects of Topography, Competition and Soil Water Availability.” Her study uses LiDAR to reveal how local conditions shape drought resilience in European beech forests, providing key insights for […]

On 2 October 2025, Dr. John Friesen and Dr. Julian Fäth from the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at the University of Würzburg and staff members of EO4CAM took part in the symposium “Vom Orbit zur Entscheidung: Satellitenfernerkundung in der Landesumweltverwaltung” in Darmstadt. The event was hosted by the Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und […]

Sonja Maas joined the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) in October 2025 as a research assistant for the EO4CAM project. After finishing her bachelor’s degree in forestry, Sonja Maas enrolled in the EAGLE M.Sc. program at the University of Würzburg, where she focused on earth observation with a strong emphasis on forest-related topics. Her interest […]

We are delighted to share the exciting news that our MSc student Isabella Metz has been awarded the 2025 International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) Student Award for her outstanding research on: “Analysis of Uncertainties for Error Detection and Quantification of Bathymetry Data from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery.” With this achievement, Isabella has distinguished herself internationally […]

We have a long-standing partnership with geomer GmbH, in particular with Dr. Stefan Jäger and Dr. Andre Assmann, in many (inter)national projects. We are delighted that this partnership continues via our EAGLE student Gökce Budak.   Gökce has done her InnoLab at geomer GmbH and reports on her time there: “geomer GmbH, based in Heidelberg, […]

We are delighted to welcome Josipa Subotić to the Earth Observation Research Cluster as a DBU fellowship visiting researcher. Since September 2025, she has been working on her project “Detection of Snow Surfaces in the Alps Using Multispectral Satellite Images and Machine Learning”, which explores snow cover dynamics, snow volume estimation, and the role of […]

Next week, our EORC colleagues Dr. John Friesen & Dr. Jakob Schwalb‑Willmann will be contributing to the symposium “From Orbit to Action: Satellite Remote Sensing in State Environmental Agencies”, where experts from Hesse and Baden-Württemberg will discuss the role of remote sensing in environmental management. The event will take place on October 2, 2025, at […]

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Since mid of September, a team from the Earth Observation Research Cluster is on a field expedition at the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan. The team is acquiring data on vegetation and hydro-geomorphic features for the DFG funded “FluBig” project which is dedicated to research on the interaction of hydromorphology and vegetation across multiple scales. Along […]

Researchers from the Department of Remote Sensing (University of Würzburg); the Department of Ecological Services, BayCEER (University of Bayreuth); the German Remote Sensing Data Center, DLR (Wessling); the Department of Applied Computer Science (University of Augsburg); the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (University of Würzburg); and the Department of Physical Geography and Soil […]

Researchers from the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology (DSS) of the University of Cologne, the Demographic Research Centre of the Vytautas Magnus University, and our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) of the University of Würzburg teamed […]

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