Aim
Aim of this course is to provide you with an overview on geographic processes of urbanization, the related demographic and structural changes of cities, and data analyses methods using remote sensing data for applications in urban geography.
Content
Humankind is within its largest migration ever: from rural areas into cities. The drivers of this global process of urbanization from demographic to economic and the related structural changes cities are facing will be discussed in this course. Remote sensing is one crucial data source in this dynamic transformation and its products are highly relevant for urban planning, as well as environmental management. Within this course different approaches and techniques are covered focusing on deriving relevant information about urbanized areas on different levels of detail. Uni-temporal-, multi-temporal-, and time series based image classification, segmentation, the analyses of point patterns, GIS analyses to assess spatial context and dependencies, as well as analyses in the 3D domain will be addressed in this course. This will be done providing and discussing example applications from different regions globally (e.g. urban sprawl analysis of megacities, the development of new dimensions of urban landscapes such as mega-regions, the rearrangement of business districts within the urban landscape, etc.). You will learn what capabilities Earth observation data, methods and products have for urban research and applications and how to design remote sensing based urban analysis, how to avoid caveats, troubleshoot errors and interpret the results.
General Course News and Updates
Detection of slope deformation at the Tröllaskagi peninsula, N-Iceland, using Sentinel-1 DInSAR time series
MSc defense (MA2) by Ása Dögg Adalsteinsdóttir On Monday, September 18, 2023 Ása Dögg Adalsteinsdóttir will present her Msc Thesis at 14:00 Detection of slope deformation at the Tröllaskagi peninsula, N-Iceland, using Sentinel-1 DInSAR time series Thema: MSC...
MSc defense Sub-seasonal snowline dynamics of glaciers in Central Asia from multi-sensor satellite observations, 2000-2021
MSc defense (MA2) by Dilara Kim On Monday, September 18, 2023 Dilara Kim will present her Msc Thesis at 13:00 “Sub-seasonal snowline dynamics of glaciers in Central Asia from multi-sensor satellite observations, 2000-2021” From the abstract: Glaciers are an important...
Detection of slope deformation at the Tröllaskagi peninsula, N-Iceland, using Sentinel-1 DInSAR time series
MSc defense (MA2) by Ása Dögg Adalsteinsdóttir On Monday, September 18, 2023 Ása Dögg Adalsteinsdóttir will present her Msc Thesis at 14:00 Detection of slope deformation at the Tröllaskagi peninsula, N-Iceland, using Sentinel-1 DInSAR time series Thema: MSC...
MSc Defense by Nora Nieskens
MsC Defense by Nora Nieskens On Friday, September 08, 2023 at 11 a.m. Nora Nieskens will present her Msc Thesis “Estuaries in transition: Earth observation-based analysis of the turbidity dynamics in selected North Sea estuaries” in room 00.B.09 in John-Skilton-Str....
first EAGLE MSc. student defended his PhD
one of our very first EAGLE M.Sc. students Maninder Dhillon successfully defended his PhD! Congratulations by the whole EAGLE program and of course all EAGLE students - many of the young and older students joined his presentation and listened to his topic of...
M.Sc. defense by Luisa Pflumm on remote sensing for decision making
Luisa will defend her M.Sc. thesis "Using remote sensing to enhance conservation decision-making: The case of the little-known silver-backed chevrotain" this Friday at 10am in the meeting room John Skilton 4a. From her abstract: "Southeast Asia is a biodiverse region...
EAGLEs at DLR’s 4th Symposium “New Perspectives on Earth Observation”
From the 26th to the 28th of June, the fourth symposium on Applied Satellite Earth Observation, organized by the DLR took place in Bonn and some of the current EAGLE generation did not miss the opportunity to make a fun trip to the former capital of Germany. From...
Innovation Lab Presentation by Konstantin Müller
On Tuesday, July 18 at 11 a.m. Konstantin Müller will hold his Innovation Lab Presentation "Analysis of Twitter over New Year's Eve" From the abstract: Until this day, scientists have figured out urban data and structures as morphological or topological...
Msc Defense by Katrin Wernicke
On Tuesday, July 18 at 10 a.m. Katrin Wernicke will present her MSc Thesis "Deep Learning for Refugee Camps – Mapping Settlement Extents with Sentinel-2 Imagery and Semantic Segmentation" From the abstract: The number of people forced to flee their homes has...
MSc defense by Cornelia Zygar
On Friday, June 16 at 11 a.m. Cornelia Zygar will present her MSc Thesis “Remote sensing-based plantation forest mapping in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: A deep learning approach” in room 01.027, building 70, Emil-Fischer-Straße 70 From the abstract: "Plantation...