Christian Geiss

risk assessment, natural hazard research

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

new QGIS plugin and R package

new QGIS plugin and R package

our EAGLE student Konstantin Müller created a QGIS plugin and a corresponding R package for easy point density vizualisation. Create way to learn how to build QGIS plugins and R package for spatial analysis. QGIS plugin: The Bestagon QGIS plugin allows easy density...

MSc defense by Joy Giovanni Matabishi

MSc defense by Joy Giovanni Matabishi

On Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 12 a.m Joy-Giovanni Matabishi will present his Msc Thesis “Modelling Bat Distribution and Diversity with Artificial light as a Focal Predictor in South Tyrol” in the seminar room 3 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a/ground floor. Modelling Bat...

MSc defense by Vanessa Rittlinger

MSc defense by Vanessa Rittlinger

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 12:00 a.m. Vanessa Rittllinger will present her master thesis on “Detection of landslides in space and time using optical remote sensing data – A case study in South Tyrol” in seminar room 3 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a/ground floor From the...

Internship Report

Internship Report

On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 12:00 a.m. Sunniva McKeever, Maximilian Merzdorf, and Isabella Metz will present their internship report on their internship at the Kruger National Park, South Africa in seminar room 3 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a/ground floor Subject: "Our...

MSc defense by Moritz Rösch

MSc defense by Moritz Rösch

On Tuesday, November 27 at 12:00 a.m., 2023 Moritz Rösch will present his MSc defense “Daily spread prediction of European wildfires based on historical burned area time series from Earth observation data using spatio-temporal graph neural networks” in the seminar...

Internship Report by Christobal Tobbin

Internship Report by Christobal Tobbin

On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 13:00 Christobal Tobbin will present his internship report on his internship at DLR  “The CONCERT Project” in seminar room 3 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a/ground floor. From the abstract: The CONCERT project with the Agriculture and...

Successful MSc defense by Giovanni Matabishi

Successful MSc defense by Giovanni Matabishi

Giovanni presented his MSc thesis “Modelling Bat Distribution and Diversity with Artificial light as a Focal Predictor in South Tyrol” today within our EAGLE colloquium and passed successfully. He presented very interesting approaches of remote sensing for modelling...

EAGLE 8th generation – first course by Claudia Kuenzer

EAGLE 8th generation – first course by Claudia Kuenzer

Our new EAGLEs just spend the whole week learning about all Earth Observation sensors, physics of remote sensing, newest advances and upcoming methods in earth observation. Beside the lecture and getting to know all these crucial information they also had plenty of...

welcome of new EAGLE generation

welcome of new EAGLE generation

Today we welcomed the new generation of Earth Observation EAGLE students and are happy to see such a diverse and highly motivated group of students again. Students from Nepal, India, Ruanda or Turkey joint our study program among many other countries and already in...