Looking at 100 years of October sea ice - I am sure you can guess what will happen next...

Summary of ice reconstruction: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p...

Strengthening Collaboration with SANParks for Conservation Research Our long-standing collaboration with Dr. Corli Coetsee and Dr. Ben Wigley from SANParks is moving forward with promising new research activities. The joint work is focusing on mapping savanna features more accurately such as trees, paths, or animals through innovative combinations of earth observation data and informatics approaches. In todays discussions, Prof. Katharina Breininger and […]

Our long-standing collaboration with Dr. Corli Coetsee and Dr. Ben Wigley from SANParks is moving forward with promising new research activities. The joint work is focusing on mapping savanna features more accurately such as trees, paths, or animals through innovative combinations of earth…

Exploring Future Collaborations on Fire Research in African Savannas During recent discussions, new opportunities for collaboration emerged between Navashni Govender, Senior Conservation Manager at SANParks in Kruger National Park, Prof. Katharina Breininger, head of the Pattern Recognition Lab in Informatics, and Dr. Mirjana Bevanda from our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC). The exchange centered on fire-related applications of informatics and earth observation and how […]

During recent discussions, new opportunities for collaboration emerged between Navashni Govender, Senior Conservation Manager at SANParks in Kruger National Park, Prof. Katharina Breininger, head of the Pattern Recognition Lab in Informatics, and Dr. Mirjana Bevanda from our Earth Observation…

What a week! Thanks a lot to the team and all partners involved to make this research campaign a success #earthobs #uav #uas #fire @uni-wuerzburg.de @earth-observation.org

Done with training - now it counts!

Our staff at work ... #Africa #fieldwork #uas #uav #fire @antoniocastaneda.bsky.social @annabischof.bsky.social @bevanda.bsky.social

Mapping Fire from the Sky – Anna Bischof’s MSc Thesis on Savanna Fire Patterns Wildfires are an essential ecological process in African savannas, shaping landscapes, influencing biodiversity, and playing a key role in nutrient cycling. Understanding their dynamics is crucial for both science and management – and this is where EAGLE MSc student Anna Bischof steps in. As part of her master’s thesis, Anna is analysing spatio-temporal fire patterns […]

Wildfires are an essential ecological process in African savannas, shaping landscapes, influencing biodiversity, and playing a key role in nutrient cycling. Understanding their dynamics is crucial for both science and management – and this is where EAGLE MSc student Anna Bischof steps in. As part…

Exploring Drought and Fire Impacts on African Savanna Vegetation In the past weeks, our research team has been preparing for a unique field experiment investigating how drought and fire influence African savanna vegetation. The work is part of the PhD by Luisa Pflumm, she is supported by our PhD student Antonio Castaneda and his MSc student Anna Bischof. The research is under the supervision […]

In the past weeks, our research team has been preparing for a unique field experiment investigating how drought and fire influence African savanna vegetation. The work is part of the PhD by Luisa Pflumm, she is supported by our PhD student Antonio Castaneda and his MSc student Anna Bischof. The…

Some of our researchers are currently conducting field work in Africa on #fire and #drought impact on #savanna #trees - more details soon on www.earth-observation.org

and nice encounters on the way to the study site...

Impressive fires!

After the fieldwork ist before the fieldwork - @antoniocastaneda.bsky.social working on #uas research hardware preparation in #africa

Field work in Africa for Fire Mapping Our UAS research group is currently out in the field collecting a wide range of environmental data. Fieldwork isn’t only about flying drones – it also involves hands-on problem-solving from coding to practical implications, from soldering and repairing to inventing new circuits for measurements. After a long day outside, PhD candidate Antonio Castañeda continues work […]

Our UAS research group is currently out in the field collecting a wide range of environmental data. Fieldwork isn’t only about flying drones – it also involves hands-on problem-solving from coding to practical implications, from soldering and repairing to inventing new circuits for measurements.…

Burning down the savanna!Currently in the field with Luisa Pflumm, @antoniocastaneda.bsky.social & @annabischof.bsky.social for some first #UAS fire trials before we burn our plots next week. Thanks to the fire team for letting us join! #earthobs #fire #tree @uni-wuerzburg.de @earth-observation.org

Swing by my poster today at the #LPS25!

Excited to share some of our work at the UAS Team, @earth-observation.org ! We’ve been exploring the comparability between UAV-based datasets and Sentinel-2.

@schwalb-willmann.de @bevanda.bsky.social

Glad that there has been so much interest in our DL approach on detecting animal paths in UAV RGB data! Thanks to all who made this study possible, incl. Leonie Sonntag, @bevanda.bsky.social, @antoniocastaneda.bsky.social, Martin Wegmann, Ben Wigley, Corli Coetsee, Doris Klein & Stefan Dech #LPS25

check out our publication of the #RStoolbox #rspatial #rstats package for #remotesensing data analysis - by @caipide.bsky.social @schwalb-willmann.de and others

with very smooth #lidar & #thermal #uas #earthobservation data acquisitions for snow property research in the #Arctic this weekend thanks to great battery heating boxes and perfect planning by @schwalb-willmann.de & @antoniocastaneda.bsky.social @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social

Kicking off our field campaign year 2025!

Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model - Communications Earth & Environment The Last Ice Area could disappear just over a decade after the central Arctic Ocean becomes seasonally ice-free, with significant impacts on ice-dependent species, according to high-resolution simulat...

New paper by Fol et al. (2025) estimating that the central Arctic Ocean will be continuously ice free from 2035 onwards, already.

This will have severe impacts on ice-dependent Arctic species.

doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Line graph time series of daily Arctic temperatures north of 80°N latitude for every year from 1958 through 2025. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year and a clear seasonal cycle. 2025 is currently much warmer than average.

The temperature spike continues in the high #Arctic... 🧪⚒️❄️🥼

Graphs at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Your support is greatly appreciated for our #UAS #remotesensing #Arctic research @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social

Thank you UNIS for organizing the snow scooter course! It was a fantastic opportuniy for our Earth Observation staff and EAGLE students to learn new skills in a fun and dynamic setting.

Thanks to @larissabeumer.bsky.social for organizing an incredible workshop on integrating wildlife and snow-ice expertise at UNIS! With great colleagues from Canada to Europe, we explored the potential of collaborativ research. Grateful for the collaboration and insights! #earthobs

our EAGLE #EarthObservation students are currently conducting field work and #UAS #UAV measurement in the Arctic for #snow conditions analysis for #ecology - supervised by @bevanda.bsky.social @larissabeumer.bsky.social Simone Lang and others ... #Earthobs #GISchat #rspatial #remotesensing #thermal

Happy to be back on Svalbard for some #uas #snow #ice #remotesensing using #lidar and #thermal sensors - looking forward to work with @larissabeumer.bsky.social and others on #ecology and #earthobs with @schwalb-willmann.de @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social