Our newest EAGLE generation featured on 40 years of DLR Earth Observation Centre (EOC) article

We are thrilled to see our youngest EAGLE generation being mentioned on the 40 years anniversary of DLR-EOC news article. Great to see the EAGLE group on the DLR webpage (with some students missing though) fitting perfectly into the interesting and dynamic evolution of DLR-EOC and Earth Observation in general. The previous parts are also highly recommended to read and to see how a student from Würzburg University became the director of (and formed) DLR-DFD. Maybe in a few decades another (EAGLE) student from Würzburg will be asked to write a similar “review article” ….

read more here: https://www.dlr.de/eoc/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-16057/26028_read-69279

and the all news article here: https://www.dlr.de/eoc/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-16057/

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