About
De-Cyuan is a researcher at the University of Würzburg with an academic background in Urban Planning and Spatial Information. He has practical experience as a licensed urban planner and spatial data scientist, focusing on remote sensing applications for spatial planning. He currently works at the Chair of Global Urbanization and Remote Sensing and collaborates with the Geolinguistics/Text2Geo team at the German Aerospace Center (DLR-GZS).
His research focuses on exploring the interaction between human activities and the physical environments of cities through the integration of remote sensing and textual data (e.g. social media), with the aim of better representing the complexity of cities. De-Cyuan is passionate about drawing insights from multiple disciplines and brings a deep curiosity to both research and teaching.
Recent News
New EAGLEs in 2020
we are finally through all 140 interviews of eligible EAGLE applications. We had again very good and highly suitable candiates and in total 25 applicants passed the interviews and are accepted to the EAGLE program. Our new EAGLEs are from various countries (15...
M.Sc. Defense by Felix Glasmann
Felix Glasman will defend his M.Sc. thesis "The FireBIRD Mission: Potential for the Detection of Gasflaring" on Thursday 30th of July at 11am. From his abstract: "The controversial but widespread process of gas flaring has received growing attention over the recent...
EAGLE student Henrik Fisser won ESA competition
Congratulations to Henrik Fisser, whose Sentinel-2 analysis on truck detection has been awarded the first prize for the European Data Cube COVID-19 contest! He uses the reflectance patterns of long moving vehicles in Sentinel-2 images. Please see the ESA webpage for...
2020 applications
We received again a high number of very good applicants and are currently working through all application files. We will invite all eligible applicants in the next weeks for an interview. In total we received 137 eligible applications from the EU as well as North and...
MSc idea presentation by Aida Taghavi
Aida will present on Friday, May 22nd at 2:30pm her MSc idea "Potentials of Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probes for Assessing and Mapping SAR-based Soil Moisture in a Mediterranean agro-forestry ecosystem by developing an integrated ground- and space-based Modelling Framework"....
Sebastian Buchelt successfully presented his MSc thesis
Sebastian Buchelt successfully presented his MSc thesis - congratulations! Read more about his research project here.
MSc defense by Sebastian Buchelt
Sebastian Buchelt will present his M.Sc. thesis "Analysis of High-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Snowmelt using Orthorectified Photo Cameras, Sentinel-1 Time Series and Digital Elevation Data" in a virtual course room. From the abstract: " Snow is one of the...
Successful virtual MSc defense by Silvan Steiner
Congratulation to Silvan Steiner, our first EAGLE passing with a virtual MSc defense!
Covid-19 situation and EAGLE
The Covid-19 situation is also challenging for the University as well as the EAGLE program. Even though we are all in the process to adapt to this new situation, the program itself is continuing as usual. All courses, exams, MSc thesis defense and so on will take...
new book by our lecturer “Intro to Spatial Data Analysis”
The upcoming book by our lecturer Jakob Schwalb-Willmann, Stefan Dech and Martin Wegmann on "Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis" with QGIS and first steps in R is available for pre-order - order now and get 30% discount. This textbook aims at students and...