About
Christopher is geographer and deputy head of the Chair of Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography and Geology of the University of Würzburg.
His research focus on the development of smart solutions that combine remote sensing, GIS, indicators, and modeling for analysing and solving geographical problems in human-environment interactions with a focus on land and water resource management in agricultural landscapes.
Courses
- Land and Water Management
- Applications of Earth Observation
- From Field Methods to Geoinformation
- Digital Image Analysis and GIS
He leads the AgriSens.org network and training activity.
University of Wuerzburg
Dept. of Remote Sensing
email: christopher.conrad@uni-wuerzburg.de
phone: +49 (0)931 31 84960
Current projects
- CaWA (http://www.cawa-project.net)
- Lavacca
- Tech4Times
- Phenos
Recent News
Internship, Innovation Lab and MSc idea presentations
The following students presented their innovation labs, internships and ideas for MSc. thesis: Ahmed: Innovation Lab at DLR (team of Ursula Gessner) and Master Thesis Idea: Title: Status of Agricultural Lands in Egypt using Earth Observation Maninder (at DLR,...
EAGLE summer dialogue 2018
Our 2018 EAGLE summer dialogue took place last Friday, 22nd of June and was a great place to meet all students, lectures, staff of the department and quite some external guests from all around Europe.
Internship and Innovation Lab presentations
Today some of our EAGLE students presented their internship and innovation laboratory projects. Very interesting topics and they obviously applied and deepened their remote sensing knowledge a lot. Julia Sauerbrey: Prediction of Organic Matter Content from Sentinel-2...
application deadline is approaching – May 15th
the application deadline for our next term of the international M.Sc. program EAGLE “applied Earth Observation and Geoanalysis of the Living Environment” is approaching. Application for the upcoming winter term are accepted until May 15th
EAGLE students learn remote sensing field work
The course "from field work to spatial data" by Tobias Ullmann and Martin Wegmann is covering the whole range of field campaign planning and especially training all necessary methods such as GPS handling, coordinate systems, setting waypoints or finding locations. In...
EAGLE students coding with sweets
Today our EAGLE students applied data munging, pipes, plotting and statistics using colour distribution of sweets. They specifically used the dplyr, ggplot, kableExtra and others to compute derivatives, rearrange the data, plot it and run statistics on colour...
Final presentations of the remote sensing programming course
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internship and innovation laboratory presentations
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Spatial Python block course
Last week Steven Hill and Thorsten Dahms gave a course that introduced EAGLE students to Python-based spatial data analysis. The advantages and challenges of different python libraries, data sets and methods were covered in hands-on exercises and also discussed...
Interdisciplinary course in the Bavarian Forest
The Bavarian Forest and the Bohemian Forest together form the largest contiguous forest area in central Europe, which is of an extraordinary importance for the protection and maintenance of biological diversity. Since 1970, a large area of the forest is protected as a...