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New sensor field

In Brandenburg, we’ve set up a TTN-connected station to monitor soil moisture & light intensity—exploring how these factors affect young oak seedlings growing under mature pines.

Jul 14, 2025 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

🌲 Curious about what trees do for us—and how we can measure it? Visit us at #LNDW2025 in the Theaterhof of the Silberlaube #FUBerlin on June 28th! Together we use our new laser scanner to turn trees into 3D models to study their health, structure, & carbon storage. Don’t miss it! 🌳

Jun 17, 2025 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

Sommersemester / Summer term 2025

Wir starten ins neue Spmmersemester! Eine Übersicht über unser Angebot findet sich hier . Welcome to the summer term. Infos about our teaching can be found here .

Feb 20, 2025 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

GIS-Sprechstunde / GIS office hour

Ihr habt Fragen zu GIS? Kommt zu unseren Tutoren in die Sprechstunde. / You have GIS questions? Come and meet our tutors in the GIS office hour.

Nov 26, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

Fieldwork of the Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics group in summer 2024

This was our summer in the field this year – have a look at the projects our working group completed.

Nov 08, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

Wintersemester / Winter term 2024/2025

Wir starten ins neue Wintersemester! Eine Übersicht über unser Angebot findet sich hier . Welcome to the winter term. Infos about our teaching can be found here .

Sep 28, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

Participation at ForestSAT conference

Christopher Schiller visited the ForestSAT conference in Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand, from 9 th to 13 th of September 2024.

Sep 18, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Team - wir suchen zwei SHKs!

Aug 12, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

New paper in Ecological Indicators

Miriam Herrmann and Fabian Fassnacht published together with Ephraim Schmidt-Riese (TU Berlin), Daria Bäte (KIT), Fabian Kempfer (KIT), and Gregory Egger (KIT) a paper on describing fluvial disturbance using satellite images.

Aug 05, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

STSM with Czech Globe in the Czech Republic

We successfully completed our Short Term Scientific Mission field campaign in the Czech Republic to collect forest data

Jul 24, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

IEEE IGARSS symposium

Christopher Schiller gave a talk about “Deep Learning-based Early Forest Decline Detection by Transformers using Sentinel-2 Time Series” at the IEEE IGARSS symposium which took place in Athens, Greece, from 7 th to 12 th of July 2024.

Jul 22, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

ESF's 50th Anniversary Conference

EUFAR’s Chair, Dr. Thomas Ruhtz, recently participated in the ESF (European Science Foundation) conference celebrating the organization's 50th anniversary.

Jul 02, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

IUFRO congress

Fabian Fassnacht, Tamalika Chakraborty and Miriam Herrmann are visiting the IUFRO world congress in Stockholm, Sweden, this week.

Jun 28, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

Scientific exchange: We got two „STSM“ accepted!

Our working group applied for two scientific missions in the 3DForEcoTech action. The goal of 3DForEcoTech is the improvement of 3D forest monitoring ( https://3dforecotech.eu/ ).

Jun 20, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

EUFAR webinar

EUFAR (European Facility for Airborne Research) is organizing a webinar about vegetation related airborne applications on 17th of June 2024, 15:00 - 17:00 CET. Click here if you want to join.

Jun 11, 2024 | Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

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