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Helga is a Geospatial Analyst at the Worldwide Fund for Natur (WWF). As a Geoecologist she is passionate about using data to create greater understanding and have a positive impact on our environment, nature conservation and wider society. She has experience in international consulting, scientific, public administration, and NGOs and has been involved in numerous geospatial and remote sensing, science communication and citizen science projects.
Recent News
New EAGLE stickers arrived
Just in time for the welcome of the new EAGLEs we received our new EAGLE stickers. They are a first trial of irregular shaped stickers and more will come. The fit nicely with our "old" PixelschubserIn sticker (pixel pusher) and more formal "Remote Sensing Scientist"....
internship, inno lab and MSc idea presentations
On Thursday 24th of September from 10am onwards we will have a range of presentations covering a MSc idea presentation Patrick Sogno on "Earth Observation for Exposome Mapping - Proof of Concept and Case Study in Augsburg, Germany" followed by various internship...
EAGLE student published review article with Prof. Kuenzer
Congratulations to our EAGLE student Patrick Sogno who published together with Prof. Claudia Kuenzer a review article on "Earth Observation Data Supporting Non-Communicable Disease Research: A Review". From the abstract: "A disease is non-communicable when it is not...
M.Sc. defense by Michael Wang
Michael Wang will present his thesis "Comparison of Surface Urban Heat Islands Using the World Settlement Footprint Imperviousness Layer" on Sept. 17th at 10am. From the abstract: "In the growing field of surface urban heat island (SUHI) analysis, impervious surface...
MSc. presentation by Fowad Ahmed
Fowad Ahmed will present his M.Sc. thesis "Agricultural landscape Configuration and Pattern Analysis with VHR Imagery in Bavaria" on Friday 11th at 11am. from the abstract: "Hedgerows and woody linear features are an integral part of the landscapes where they exist....
New EAGLEs in 2020
we are finally through all 140 interviews of eligible EAGLE applications. We had again very good and highly suitable candiates and in total 25 applicants passed the interviews and are accepted to the EAGLE program. Our new EAGLEs are from various countries (15...
M.Sc. Defense by Felix Glasmann
Felix Glasman will defend his M.Sc. thesis "The FireBIRD Mission: Potential for the Detection of Gasflaring" on Thursday 30th of July at 11am. From his abstract: "The controversial but widespread process of gas flaring has received growing attention over the recent...
EAGLE student Henrik Fisser won ESA competition
Congratulations to Henrik Fisser, whose Sentinel-2 analysis on truck detection has been awarded the first prize for the European Data Cube COVID-19 contest! He uses the reflectance patterns of long moving vehicles in Sentinel-2 images. Please see the ESA webpage for...
2020 applications
We received again a high number of very good applicants and are currently working through all application files. We will invite all eligible applicants in the next weeks for an interview. In total we received 137 eligible applications from the EU as well as North and...
MSc idea presentation by Aida Taghavi
Aida will present on Friday, May 22nd at 2:30pm her MSc idea "Potentials of Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probes for Assessing and Mapping SAR-based Soil Moisture in a Mediterranean agro-forestry ecosystem by developing an integrated ground- and space-based Modelling Framework"....
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