EAGLE M.Sc. idea presentations

On Monday, 24th of September from 1:30 onwards the following EAGLE students will present their M.Sc. idea. Everybody is welcome to join their presentations and to provide feedback: Julia: “Time-Series Analysis of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imagery for Detection of active Morphodynamics in the Atacama Desert, Chile” Sarah: “Risk assessment for flood events based on remote sensing data – a case study for North-Rhine Westfalia, Germany” Louis: “Remote sensing of water quality using Sentinel-2 towards a potential separation of harmful algal blooms from other Algae” Bharath: “Assessing the development of circular irrigation in South Africa since 19*” Johannes: “Tracking crop penology based on S1-Time series” Sebastian: “Solar power potential in Portugal” Karsten: “An approach to optimize object-based classification: Mapping dead trees and gaps in Białowieża Forest” Marcus: “Deep learning for Instance Segmentation and a comparison to a Conventional Segmentation on historical aerial images of the Second World War” Fowad: “Drought Monitoring in University Forest with Hyper-Spectral And In-Situ Data”

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[spotlight] Lecturer Spotlight: Martin Wegmann

[spotlight] Lecturer Spotlight: Martin Wegmann

by | Jul 10, 2026 |

If you've ever sat in a Würzburg classroom learning how to wrangle satellite data, there's a good chance Martin Wegmann was the one standing at the front. He's been the driving force behind the EAGLE MSc program, the Applied Earth Observation degree at the University...

EAGLE Internship Presentation: Svalbard

EAGLE Internship Presentation: Svalbard

by | Jul 6, 2026 |

On July 07, 2026, Aoibhin Murphy and Marlene Sehrbrock will present her internship results on " Svalbard" at 12:00 in seminar room 3, John-Skilton-Str. 4a. From the abstract: Using thermal and RGB imagery collected via UAVs, we investigated the potential of thermal...

EireR R package: unified gateway to Irish geospatial data

EireR R package: unified gateway to Irish geospatial data

by | Jun 22, 2026 |

Anyone who's tried to do geospatial work across the whole island of Ireland knows the headache. Ireland is one island geographically, but it's split across two jurisdictions, the Republic and Northern Ireland, and each one runs its own data infrastructure. Different...

Impact of agrophotovoltaic facilities – an R package

Impact of agrophotovoltaic facilities – an R package

by | Jun 22, 2026 |

There's a new R package on the block, and it's solving a problem that sounds simple until you actually try to do it: how do you tell whether putting solar panels over a farm field is good or bad for the soil and the crops around them? Marlene, one of our EAGLE...

Successful MSc Defense by Anna Bischof

Successful MSc Defense by Anna Bischof

by | Jun 9, 2026 |

We congratulate Anna Bischof on the successful defense of her MSc thesis, "Feasibility of Unoccupied Aerial System-Based Active Fire Monitoring in African Savannas." Anna's research addressed one of the key challenges in fire ecology and remote sensing: understanding...