Simon Plank

natural hazards

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Simon is with the team “Natural Hazards” at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) where he has been involved in research projects focusing on the development of automated algorithms and methods for crisis-related information extraction from optical, thermal and (interferometric / polarimetric) Synthetic Aperture Radar remote sensing imagery. His research interests cover volcanoes, landslides, floods and wildfires. Moreover, he is involved in operational activities for the extraction of crisis information from remote sensing data at DLR’s Center for Satellite based Crisis Information (ZKI), which contributes to several national and international activities in the field of disaster mitigation. He is an Emergency On-Call Officer, Project and Data Manager in the framework of the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters

 

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EAGLEs at DLR EOC

EAGLEs at DLR EOC

Our 2019 EAGLEs visited the DLR-EOC and learned a lot about current earth observation research at DLR. Many talks as well as discussions with PhD, Postdocs and teamleaders were organized by Prof. Claudia Kuenzer, head of the landsurface department and professor in...

Short Presentation on UAV and LiDAR

Short Presentation on UAV and LiDAR

This Friday at 12am we will have two brief presentations by colleagues from the Max-Planck-Insitute and University Göttingen in room 1.009 OKW 86, right after the student presentations: Dr. Anne Scharf (MPI-AB) "The need for a closer look: how drones could fill in the...

Welcome of the 2019 EAGLEs

Welcome of the 2019 EAGLEs

On Monday, 14th of October, at 4 p.m., we will again welcome a new generation of EAGLEs (Z6, 01.002). After the official welcome and some introductory presentations, we will also introduce the lecturer and provide first details about the upcoming semester(s)....

M.Sc. defense by Bharath Selvaraj

M.Sc. defense by Bharath Selvaraj

Bharath Selvaraj will defend his M.Sc. thesis on August 8th at 10am in room 0.004. From the abstract of his thesis: "Over the centuries, humanity made immeasurable progress in both technological innovation and medicine. This progress comes at the cost of environmental...

EAGLE Summer Dialogue 2019

EAGLE Summer Dialogue 2019

Our 2019 EAGLE Summer Dialogue was a great success again and thanks a lot to all our EAGLE students who organised it. More than 100 participants enjoyed talks by Sandra Lohberger (RSS GmbH) and Alfred Schumm (WWF) who covered beside the technical aspects of their work...

Internship and Innovation Lab presentations

Internship and Innovation Lab presentations

on Monday 15th of July at 10 a.m. in room 0.009 (OKW 86) we will have another series of internship and innovation lab presentations plus on M.Sc. idea presentation:   (Internship) Marius Philipp -- "Mono Delta Monitoring System (MODES)" (Internship) Silvan...