[spotlight] Lecturer Spotlight: Thilo Erbertseder

Oct 26, 2026 | news

Thilo is the person at EORC who can tell you exactly how much air pollution was hanging over a given megacity in any given year since the 1990s, and what that actually meant for the people living there. He teaches atmospheric composition and urban remote sensing at...

A First Get-Together with the New EAGLE Generation 🦅

Oct 13, 2026 | news

A new EAGLE generation means new faces, new ideas, and the start of another journey in Earth Observation. And what better way to kick things off than with a relaxed evening at the pub? Our first social event brought together the new students, older EAGLE generations,...

Welcome, new EAGLEs!

Oct 12, 2026 | news

The newest group of EAGLE students arrived in Würzburg! They come from different countries, with different backgrounds and different skills, and that’s exactly what makes this program special. Remote sensing is a big field, and it gets better when people look at it...

EAGLE student Jolien Grafe spent her internship in Kruger National Park

Oct 9, 2026 | news

Jolien spent her internship in Kruger National Park in South Africa, working together with SANParks. She was part of an ongoing DFG project here at EORC that looks at how fire and drought shape savanna ecosystems. The project is led by Mirjana Bevanda and Tobias...

Night shifts with the black-footed cat: Jolien Grafe’s internship in Benfontein

Oct 6, 2026 | news

Most remote sensing work happens in the daylight, at a desk or in a field with a drone. Jolien Grafe, one of our EAGLE M.Sc. students, spent a good part of her internship doing the opposite: sitting on a hill at dusk, listening for a beeping signal from a very small,...