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New paper examining how urban form, function, and discourse relate across cities around the world
It is known that urban form and function are closely related. Beyond this, in a new study,...
Drone manufacturer Wingtra visits EORC
Is it possible to combine the efficiency of a fixed-wing drone with the precision of a laser...
PhD position: Earth Observation of drought and fire impacts
Job Announcement: PhD Position on EO research of Drought, Fire and Vegetation in Kruger National...
EORC Talk: Facing the challenges of big data with multi-talented earth observation data cubes
The Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) invites to a talk by Dr. Insa Otte and colleagues...
Drone manufacturer Wingtra visits EORC
Is it possible to combine the efficiency of a fixed-wing drone with the precision of a laser...
“Where Is Everybody?” — The EO4CAM Effect
If you walked through the corridors of our EORC offices this week, you might have had the same...
EAGLE MSc Defense: Evaluating Surface Urban Heat Islands in Bavarian Cities through a Multi-Variable Analysis
On July 07, 2026, Farimah Abdolzadeh will present her Master Thesis on ” Evaluating Surface...
Life in Science: voices from Würzburg & Mwanza
Last winter semester, our EAGLE students, together with students from Museum Studies and ERASMUS+,...
Spotlight on our PhD student: Moritz Roesch
Moritz is a doctoral researcher at our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at the University...
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25 Years of Remote Sensing in Würzburg
Our chair of remote sensing, Professor Stefan Dech, likes to say “science is rarely a...
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Dr. Ariane Droin in front of the camera: RTL reports on HABITRACK
A film crew from RTL showed up in the Oberpfalz this spring, and joint a field campaign by the...
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EAGLE MSc Defense: Evaluating Surface Urban Heat Islands in Bavarian Cities through a Multi-Variable Analysis
On July 07, 2026, Farimah Abdolzadeh will present her Master Thesis on ” Evaluating Surface...
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EAGLE Internship Presentation: ” Global Water Detection and Thermal UAV Data Analysis”
On July 14, 2026, Elena Scholz will present her internship results on ” Global Water...
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EAGLE Internship Presentation: UAS EO on Svalbard
On July 07, 2026, Aoibhin Murphy and Marlene Sehrbrock will present her internship results on...
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Spotlight on our PhD student: Moritz Roesch
Moritz is a doctoral researcher at our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at the University...
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A Weekend together: Where the Institute Talks About Itself
Once a year, or at least that’s the idea, the Institute of Geography packs up and heads out...
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Graduation Day: EORC and EAGLE Celebrate at the Faculty Ceremony
Last week the faculty held its formal graduation ceremony, and EORC and EAGLE were well...
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Listening to the Lech at Its Source: Science, Music and River Dynamics
Last weekend, EORC PI Florian Betz has partipated in an excursion to the source of the Lech River...
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AI chatbots in research and teaching
Let’s be honest about something: AI chatbots are not coming to our courses and our research....
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Drone manufacturer Wingtra visits EORC
Is it possible to combine the efficiency of a fixed-wing drone with the precision of a laser...
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How We Learned to Fly: The Story Behind UAS Research at EORC
Every research group that’s ever bought a drone has a story about the first one it lost....
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Lecturer Spotlight: Ariane Droin
Ariane Droin loves teaching. That much is obvious if you’ve ever sat in one of her classes....
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MainPro workshop on TLS and LiDAR UAS
This week, a workshop organized by Sebastian Buchelt within our EFRE project MainPro brought...
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Starkregen in Bayern: Beobachtungen und Dokumentation zählen
Starkregenereignisse treten immer häufiger lokal, kurzfristig und mit hoher Intensität auf....
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Seeing the World in Points: Lidar Course for the EAGLEs
Lidar has a funny way of sneaking up on you. You think you know what it is, a laser that measures...
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TV Crew Films EORC at MONID Habitrack Fieldwork
A bit of extra excitement at EORC recently: A television crew showed up to film a segment on the...
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EAGLE MSc Defense: Machine Learning Inference of Building Basement Presence Using Street-Level Imagery and Multi-Source Geospatial Attributes: A Case Study of Mannheim, Germany
On July 01, 2026, Gökçe Yağmur Özcan will present her Master Thesis on ” Machine Learning...
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Ticks from Above: UAS Fieldwork for the MONID Habitrack Project
Forest edges are tricky places. They’re where woodland meets open ground, where light and...
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AI Meets Earthquake Risk: DLR Researchers at GEM Conference 2026
This week (23–25 June 2026), the GEM Conference 2026: From Faults to Future Scenarios...
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New paper examining how urban form, function, and discourse relate across cities around the world
It is known that urban form and function are closely related. Beyond this, in a new study,...
Read More