Archive of Geoinformatics News

The 2026-2030 Landsat Science Team met for their first in-person meeting May 5-7, 2026 at the USGS EROS Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. David Frantz represented Trier University and reported on our goals of developing synergistic data processing pipelines for Landsat and European satellite missions.

Mohamed Shibia and colleagues have published a paper that shows how pastoralists on the Borana plateau in southern Ethiopia adapt to fluctuating resource availability. They use GPS collar data from 22 cattle herds over a four-year period to generate more than 16000 daily grazing orbits and classify them into resource use strategies. These are linked to Landsat-based grazing resource unit maps to understand which types of grazing units are targeted by the different use strategies.

Prof. Dr. David Frantz has been appointed as a Member of the new Landsat Science Team 2026-2030.
He leads a team of investigators in the section Interoperability and Data Processing. Their project is titled “Synergistic data processing pipelines for Landsat and European satellite missions”. 

An article in the local newspaper Trierischer Volksfreund is titled "Projekt von NASA & Co. – Dieser Mann bringt Trier ins Weltall".

Tagesschau writes about this in “Von der Mosel ins Weltall: Trierer Professor forscht für die NASA”

Dr. Johannes Stoffels steht auf der Shortlist für den Lehrpreis der Universität Trier und hat es damit in die zweite Runde für die Preisverleihung geschafft.

The SASSCAL 2.0 scientific conference gathered over 200 experts from Africa and Germany to showcase the results of 13 projects across southern Africa. Achim Röder presented the Geoinformatics Team’s contribution to the ELNAC project, which applies a social-ecological systems approach to improve livelihoods and resource management under climate change. The Trier group develops spatial and temporal data analyses to support science-based management in the Kavango-Zambezi Conservation Area.

Presentation Video

David Klehr, Johannes Stoffels, und David Frantz haben den Artikel "Mapping tree species fractions in temperate mixed forests using Sentinel-2 time series and synthetically mixed training data" im Journal Remote Sensing of Environment publiziert. Der Artikel thematisiert die Klassifiaktion von Sub-Pixel Anteilen von Baumarten in den Wäldern von Rheinland-Pfalz.