Remote Sensing in Biodiversity and Conservation

project work in the Steigerwald

Lecturer

Martin Wegmann

ECTS

5 ECTS

 

Aim

Within this course EAGLE students are exposed to different disciplines and interdisciplinary research.In collaboration with biologists and conservationists new and established approached are discussed and explored by the students in order to define the research goal. The practical analysis is conducted by the students and presented with the collaborators being present.

Content

The students will be introduced to interdisciplinary research and the relevance of clear communication, deliverables and milestones. In a second step they will be linked to different collaborators from other fields and will have the task to define work packages that are feasible within the course time-frame. The actual data analysis will be done as well but the primary goal is not the data analysis but the communication with the other disciplines and being able to provide relevant spatio-temporal information for such a test interdisciplinary project.

 

Discussions

learning how other disciplines collect field data, what their properties are, what their research questions are

Planning

learning how to plan an interdisciplinary project

Coding

learn how to apply coding for your specific research question

Present

present your research findings to the collaborators

General Course News and Updates

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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