EAGLE Internship Presentation: Detection of OffRoad Tyre Dumpsites at Mining Operations Using Sentinel-2 Imagery and Deep Learning Segmentation

On July 21, 2026, Wajiha Yasmeen will present her internship results on ” Detection of Off-The-Road Tyre Dumpsites at Mining Operations Using Sentinel-2 Imagery and Deep Learning Segmentation ” at 12:00 at the seminar room 3 in John-Skilton-Str. 4a.
From the abstract: Discarded off-the-road (OTR) tyres at mining sites represent a persistent environmental hazard, yet their locations are poorly documented across large mining regions. This work develops a supervised semantic segmentation pipeline to detect OTR tyre dumpsites from Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery across mining operations in Chile. Per-mine Sentinel-2 composites were exported and candidate dump areas identified through spectral thresholding, then manually verified and digitised in QGIS. A DeepLabV3+ network with a pretrained encoder was trained on 10-band input using a combined Dice and weighted binary cross-entropy loss. Results indicate that site-level detection is achievable with the current approach, while accurate delineation of dump extent remains constrained by the resolution of the dataset.
1st supervisor: Dr. Maninder Singh Dhillon

read more news:

[spotlight] Lecturer Spotlight: Thilo Erbertseder

[spotlight] Lecturer Spotlight: Thilo Erbertseder

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 🦅

A First Get-Together with the New EAGLE Generation 🦅

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!

Welcome, new EAGLEs!

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...

[Spotlight] Lecturer Spotlight: Julian Faeth

[Spotlight] Lecturer Spotlight: Julian Faeth

Dr. Julian Fäth is a postdoctoral researcher at our EORC. His teaching combines remote sensing, forest ecology and geospatial data science with a strong focus on operational applications and climate adaptation. Since 2018, Julian has been actively involved in...