Michael Thiel

urban & agriculture remote sensing

About

Michaels focus is on remote sensing of agriculture areas as well as Urban/Settlement environments in different semi arid Regions. Technically he is specialized in image analysis with eCognition (object based), ENVI/IDL, ArcGIS and develops his skills in R, QGIS and IDRISI.

 

University of Wuerzburg

Dept. of Remote Sensing

email: michael.thiel@uni-wuerzburg.de

phone: +49 (0)931 31 84690

Recent News

New EAGLE Earth Observation professors

New EAGLE Earth Observation professors

We are very happy to welcome two new professors within the EAGLE M.Sc. program! Prof. Dr. Hannes Taubenböck and Prof. Dr. Tobias Ullmann will strengthen the urban remote sensing and radar earth observation within the EAGLE program. Various new courses are already...

EAGLE summer dialogue 2022

EAGLE summer dialogue 2022

After two years we finally had our EAGLE summer dialogue again with many Earth Observation alumni, now working in various research organizations and companies. Great to talk to all our past and present students and also seeing all the students getting to know each...

MSc defense by Antonio Castaneda

MSc defense by Antonio Castaneda

On Friday, 1st of July at 9am Antonio will present his M.Sc. thesis "Potential and limits of using UAS in forest monitoring". From the abstract: "The exponential development, usage, and application of uncrewed area systems (UAS) have given remote scientists a clear...

EAGLE application in 2022

EAGLE application in 2022

We received again more than 200 applicants from all over the world. In total applicants from 42 different countries applied to our international Earth Observation M.Sc. program, covering countries such as Hungary, Morocco, Malaysia, Kenya, Nepal or Columbia. We are...

EAGLE application deadline 2022

EAGLE application deadline 2022

Our application deadline for 2022 is approaching. If you want to study applied Earth Observation and learn about a variety of remote sensing sensors and methods as well as about fields of applications, submit your application at the latest on May 15th. Accepted...

MSc thesis defense by Nestor Gualsaqui

MSc thesis defense by Nestor Gualsaqui

On March 8th at 10:30 Nestor will present his M.Sc. thesis "Pre-crop emergence weed mapping using high satellite imagery". From the abstract: "During the last decades, the growth of the world population has been increasing and weather fluctuations around the world...

MSc defense Nils Karges

MSc defense Nils Karges

Nils Karges will present his M.Sc. thesis "Exploring spatial relationships of soundscape variables in urban areas. " on 15th of February at 9:30. From the abstract: "This work describes the relationship between soundscape and the underlying landscape in an urban...

MSc defense Camilo Zamora

MSc defense Camilo Zamora

On Friday 11th of February at 9am Camilo Zamora will present his M.Sc. thesis "Deforestation dynamics in the Dry Chaco ecoregion: a three decades of change detection and fragmentation study analysis". From the abtract: "Tropical forests represent 52% of global forests...

MSc idea and interesting presentations

MSc idea and interesting presentations

on Friday 18th of February at 9am we will have the following presentations:   Jakob Rieser - Thesis Idea: "A Synergistic Use of Optical and SAR Remote Sensing Data for the Long-term Evolution of Biocrusts and their Activity across diverse Dryland Ecosystems"....

Our EAGLEs featured on the University page

Our EAGLEs featured on the University page

Our EAGLEs Sofia, Annika, Antonio, Andreas and Nils are featured on the University webpage with their UrbanSens idea of combining mobile IoT sensors and Earth Observation data for urban climate monitoring. Their success winning the DLR Copernicus challenge rewarded...