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
Internship, inno lab and MSc idea presentations
On Thursday, May 20th, at 2pm the following students will present their internship, inno lab or MSc thesis idea: Christopher Chan:“Patching up old Deep Learning code and working with data center remotely” (Internship with DLR, supervisor Benjamin Leutner) Diego...
inno lab and MSc idea presentation
Next Tuesday, April 27th, at 10am the following EAGLE students will present their Innovation Laboratory work and their MSc thesis idea: Sandro Groth: "PortalAdminTools: A Python-based programming interface for Esri Enterprise infrastructures" (InnoLab with ESRI)Sandro...
internship and MSc idea presentation
on Tuesday April 6th 3pm we will have the folling internship and MSc idea presentations: Joy-Giovanni Matabishi, " MESMA of DESIS data to identify Rooftops in Kigali"- Internship/EKUT Luisa Pflumm, "Comparison of the performance of different accessibility layers for...
internship presentations
On Monday March 1st at 10am the following internships will be presented: Marius Witt, Baby it's cold outside - Interning at DLRs Polar Team, internship at DLR. Jakob Wachter, Potential use cases of a self established database for social media data, internship at...
Great Earth Observation presentations despite distance learning
Despite the online courses we learned and managed to deliver great presentations on remote sensing data analysis in our courses and also improved our virtual presentation skills which might also partially be valuable in future conference or workshop presentations.
Our EAGLE students with UAV and field work jackets
Our EAGLE students preparing our UAVs with thermal, multispectral and Lidar sensors for the upcoming field work season. Also wearing our new field work jackets so that we all are easily recognizable as Earth Observation researchers.
MSc thesis defense by Patrick Sogno
On Monday, 25th of January at 10 a.m., Patrick Sogno will present his M.Sc. thesis "Earth Observation for Exposome Mapping – Proof of Concept and Case Study in Augsburg, Germany". from the abstract: "Non-communicable diseases – NCDs – (asthma, cancer, or diabetes, for...
internship and inno lab presentations
On Wednesday, 27th of February at 2pm we will have the first set of internship and innovation laboratory presentations in 2021: Yan Chak Christopher Chan: Start-up life and Deep Learning (Internship) Nils Karges: Noise and its relation to urban structural types...
internship, inno lab and MSc idea
On Monday 21st of December at 10am we will have the following presentations: Camilo (Internship)"Forest cover change between 2000 and 2020 in El Chaco ecoregion, Paraguay" at DLR Johannes Mast (Thesis Idea):"Measuring Urban Polycentricity using Remote Sensing"...
EAGLE wall of graduates is growing steadily
Our EAGLE wall of fame is being continuously extended by pictures of our new graduates and the group pictures of our EAGLE cohortes. Great to see their pictures on our wall and following their career past the EAGLE M.Sc.. Very interesting positions from companies to...