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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,...
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...
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...
EOCap4Africa closing meeting
The EOCap4Africa project officially concluded with an online closing meeting bringing together our...
“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: 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...
Life in Science: voices from Würzburg & Mwanza
Last winter semester, our EAGLE students, together with students from Museum Studies and ERASMUS+,...
Spotlight on our Researchers: De-Cyuan Jheng
Researcher at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) use Earth observation and data science...
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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,...
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Keynote at the Land Use Symposium of the IÖR by Hannes Taubenböck
Over the years, we have regularly contributed to the Land Use Symposium (DFNS 2026 – 18....
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Course on urban EO by Michael Wurm
Walk through any city and you pick up on things that are hard to put a number on. The noise of a...
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EireR R package: unified gateway to Irish geospatial data
Anyone who’s tried to do geospatial work across the whole island of Ireland knows the...
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Impact of agrophotovoltaic facilities – an R package
There’s a new R package on the block, and it’s solving a problem that sounds simple...
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Spotlight on our Researchers: De-Cyuan Jheng
Researcher at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) use Earth observation and data science...
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New paper on GDP estimatation from space
Reliable and up-to-date sub-national data on the gross domestic product (GDP) data remain scarce...
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Hannes Taubenböck wins the science slam of the Münchner Lach- und Schiessgesellschaft
It really is quite something where our work takes us from time to time – be it the ESA...
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Presentation at the Kolloquium of the Technical University of Graz
Dr. Ariane Droin presented the works of her PhD-Thesis at the Geo-Kolloquium of the Technical...
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Spotlight on our Researchers: Martina Wilde
At the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at the University of Würzburg, Dr. Martina Wilde...
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From Pixels to Savanna: EAGLE Master’s Students Report from Kruger National Park
When you think of a research internship in remote sensing, your mind probably jumps to lab...
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Academic Evolution in Earth Observation
A while ago, we shared a lighthearted post about our EORC Earth observation characters. What...
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New publication on integrating corpus linguistics and NLP methods to explore social media discourse
The availability of social media data and tools to (semi-)automatically analyse them has sparked...
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Surveying trainees at the Earth Observation Centre (EOC) of the DLR
On 12.06.2026, surveying trainees from the state administration were guests at the Earth...
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Visiting Scientists from CIGIDEN R+ (Chile) at DLR-EOC
Our Department Head Prof. Hannes Taubenböck was honored to welcome Prof. Alejandra Stehr from the...
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Congratulations to Julia Rieder on Her Successful PhD Defense
We are pleased to congratulate Julia Rieder on the successful defense of her PhD thesis! Over the...
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University Press Highlights Exhibition Connecting Mwanza and Würzburg
The University of Würzburg’s press team recently featured the exhibition “Living with...
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A Green Globe for Future Space Sensors
One of the aspects we enjoy most at EORC is the opportunity to collaborate across disciplines. A...
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