About
Christian is with the team “Modeling and geostatistical analysis” at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He worked on several topics related to renewable energy, earthquake risk assessment, and methods for remote sensing data processing. His current research interests include techniques of multimodal remote sensing, machine learning, and pattern recognition, specifically applied to the field of natural hazard risk research.
Dr. Christian Geiss, DLR-EOC
Recent News
courses on permafrost earth observation
What is the relevance of permafrost? What effects does the degradation of permafrost have on Arctic environments? How can satellite earth observation be utilized to monitor and quantify these effects? Addressing these questions was the focus of a recent hackathon week...
EAGLE applications and student statistics
We get constantly increasing number of applications and of course we are interested who is applying and who is actually starting our international Earth Observation MSc. program. The percentage of women in our study program did rise to around 80% while men...
Animal Movement and Remote Sensing course
How do animals move through the environment they live in? Which behavioural patterns can be observed when tracking an animals' movements for weeks, months or even years? Which spaces do they utilize and why? And how can remote sensing be used to predict the...
Internship Presentations
On Tuesday, March 28th at 13:00 p.m. Wilmer Fabián Montién Tique will present on his internship "Topographic and hydrographic factors for flood susceptibility analysis. By using WhiteboxTools geospatial data in Nigeria" at DLR via Zoom. On Tuesday, March 28th at...
Internship Presentation
On February 28th at 13:00 (room 1.005 Bib. Geb.) Jyoti Biswas will present on her internship at the DLR: "Urbanization" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hannes Taubenböck
Internship Presentations
On February 24th at 10 a.m. (room 1.003 Z6 ) Ina Schulz, Caroline Göhner, and Svenja Dobelmann will present on their internship at the Kruger National Park/South Africa. Supervisors: Dr. Mirjana Bevanda and Dr. Martin Wegmann
Internship and Inno Lab Presentations
On Tuesday, 31st of January at 13 p.m. we will have the following presentations: Moritz Roesch: Spectral compositing for mapping bare soil areas and soil organic carbon estimation in Germany - Internship at RSS GmbH Lallu Nikerthil Prathapan: Landuse/ building type...
EAGLEs visit DLR EOC
After a long break due to covid we resumed the EAGLE visit of DLR EOC. Many EAGLEs from the current generation and quite some of the past (covid) generations joined this event and listened to many talks by DLR researchers. Some of the presenters were even former...
Social event in the boulder gym
Last week we spend a few hours in the boulder hall to enjoy a day without courses, do some climbing and have plenty of time to chat. Many EAGLEs from the current and old generations joint us as well as many lecturer. Beside the social event we also collected Lidar...
New EAGLE Earth Observation professors
We are very happy to welcome two new professors within the EAGLE M.Sc. program! Prof. Dr. Hannes Taubenböck and Prof. Dr. Tobias Ullmann will strengthen the urban remote sensing and radar earth observation within the EAGLE program. Various new courses are already...