Welcome to the EAGLE students' webpage!

This is the offical EAGLE students’ webpage. Here you can find useful information on the EAGLE graduate program (M.Sc.) offered by the University of Würzburg and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), directly provided by its students.

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bubblegam R package

bubblegam R package

For our "Programming & Statistics for Remote Sensing and GIS" course we have developed an R package to efficiently merge (geo)dataframes, identify, and move "spatial outliers" in geodata, create geographic plots, bubbleplots, and the animation between these plots....

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EAGLE Clara at EGU Snow Science Winter School in Finland

EAGLE Clara at EGU Snow Science Winter School in Finland

Hey, it’s me, Clara! Last week I was able to participate in a winter school on snow field methods and microwave modeling of snow and wanted to share some impressions here. Using bus and train I traveled to the research center of the Finnish Meteorological Institute...

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8th generation EAGLEs – First semester recap

8th generation EAGLEs – First semester recap

Our first semester is ending, and a lot has happened in the last few months since classes started, so it's time for a little recap! In mid-October, we were welcomed in the seminar room at John-Skilton-Straße 4 on the northeastern edge of the campus. Thus, we were the...

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Social Event at Boulder Hall

Social Event at Boulder Hall

Last Friday, students and staff at the Department of Earth Observation Research traded the lecture rooms for a bouldering hall where they came together for a social event. With feet squeezed into climbing shoes and chalky hands, the participants embraced the challenge...

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8th generation EAGLEs participate in Mapathon

8th generation EAGLEs participate in Mapathon

The eighth generation of EAGLE students got off to a good start in their first semester! This Tuesday evening, following the afternoon session of "Introduction to Programming and Geostatistics", some EAGLEs participated in a Mapathon. It was organized as part of the...

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EAGLEs at DLR

EAGLEs at DLR

After finishing their first exam, the young eagles of the 7th generation travelled on the 8th of December to Munich to celebrate it at the Tollwood/Christmas Market. On Friday, they were invited to visit the DLR-EOC in Oberpfaffenhofen to get an insight into different...

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Eagles in Winter Wonderland – a trip to Berchtesgaden

Eagles in Winter Wonderland – a trip to Berchtesgaden

After 2 months of back-to-back courses, one exam, and a lot of studies the EAGLE of the 6th generation took a break at Berchtesgaden enjoying a lot of snow!!The group of 14 left for this winter wonderland on December 9th after an informative seminar session on GDAL....

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Either EAGLE or Ibis?

Either EAGLE or Ibis?

Studying remote sensing is important to take one step back being able to see changes in a whole, because we see them from space. For me, a 4th Gen EAGLE, sometimes the analyses are not enough. This is why I would like to share my story with you, about what I am doing...

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Impressions from the EAGLE students’ participation in the 2019 Geo Summer Party’s Dodgeball Competition

Impressions from the EAGLE students’ participation in the 2019 Geo Summer Party’s Dodgeball Competition

Instead of hosting a football competition as it always had been for the last years, the Geo Summer Party 2019 Planning Committee instead decided to introduce a new game: Dodgeball. As last year, EAGLE students formed a team representing the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg and fought hard to survive the competition. Browse through the images below to get some impressions of the event 🙂

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First EAGLE generation: Spreading its wings and taking off

First EAGLE generation: Spreading its wings and taking off

Since more and more EAGLEs of the 1st generation started to stretch their wings, it is time for one last recap. Over the last two and a half years, every one of us was quite busy learning new and exciting techniques and methods in the scientific field of remote sensing. We also were given the chance to expand our network and explore academic fields, which were not necessarily related to our previous occupations.

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EAGLEs forming a football team at yesterday’s Geo summer party

EAGLEs forming a football team at yesterday’s Geo summer party

Every year, many Geography students and some lecturers of the University of Wuerzburg meet at the center lawn of Campus Hubland for the annual Geography summer party, organized by the faculty’s Student Council. This year, as every year, one highlight was the football tournament, in which nine teams, all drafted explicitly for the event, competed against each other to win the “Mohorovičić Cup”.

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Truck Detection using Sentinel-2 data

Truck Detection using Sentinel-2 data

In the context of the COVID-19 Custom Script Contest organized by ESA and Euro Data Cube Henrik Fisser developed a Sentinel-2 truck detection method. It relies on an effect that spectrally exposes moving objects of a certain size in Sentinel-2 data. This effect is caused by the layout of its Multispectral Instrument (MSI). In the following article he will give you an explanation of the effect, the method development and his experience upscaling the detection to whole EU extent for integration into the ESA RACE dashboard.

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R package “MapBooklet” for an automatized creation of map booklets based on user ggplots

R package “MapBooklet” for an automatized creation of map booklets based on user ggplots

This R package was designed by EAGLE student Marius Philipp for the automatized generation of map booklet pdfs for user defined ggplots. The package contains currently two functions, one of which creates a fishnet polygon from the extent of the user input data. The second function uses these fishnet polygon in combination with a user ggplot for the creation of a map booklet, including an overview map, as well as a submap for each tile.

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Python Script for QGIS 3.0 Basemaps

Python Script for QGIS 3.0 Basemaps

The OpenLayer Plugin for QGIS provided all my basemap layers for quite some time now. But since the eagerly awaited launch of QGIS 3.0 earlier this year this plugin became incompatible, leaving you with two options: you either gather and compile all XYZ Tiles...

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R Package “superClassAnalysis”

R Package “superClassAnalysis”

For our final project in the course “MB2 – Introduction to Programming and Geostatistics” held by Dr. Martin Wegmann the students were encouraged to explore the possibilities for analyzing and working with remote sensing data in R. In this context I created a package...

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Land-Use Change Coded By Color (R Package)

Land-Use Change Coded By Color (R Package)

The remote sensing R package LCquickVieweR makes land-use change visible by creating false color images. The methodical approach is a combination of Image Differencing and Multi Temporal Stacking using NDVI. This way change is coded by color. All processing steps are...

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Spectral unmixing in R

Spectral unmixing in R

In January 2018, I finished the development of the first version of a spectral unmixing function being part of RStoolbox, an R package offering numerous tools for remote sensing analysis written by Benjamin Leutner. The multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (mesma) function makes it possible to unmix multi- and hyper-spectral imagery by sets of spectral endmember profiles.

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Install every missing R package in one go

Install every missing R package in one go

Before submitting a project or setting up R on a new system, this function might come in handy. You can put all your favourite or required packages into a single vector and check if they're already installed. If not, packageChecker() will take care of that....

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Backslash Converter for R

Every now and then some of us have to work on a campus terminal. And most of the time you want to take the code and data with you. So you do what every student does - you hook up your own usb-drive and change work directories in RStudio. But as soon as you start...

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New 2017 EAGLE students welcomed

The new 2017 EAGLE students have been welcomed to Wuerzburg and recently started their studies. Our webpage will be updated as soon as reports and photos about the new students are available.

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