News

April 5, 2019

Fire experiment in Brandenburg

RSS is currently contributing to new research on fire detection and management technology, driven by the project „FireSense“. FireSense is a collaborative effort between RSS, ZEBRIS […]
März 21, 2019

SWOS policy report available

Enhanced wetland monitoring, assessment and indicators to support European and global environmental policy is the title of the SWOS policy report that identifies the links between […]
Februar 5, 2019

SAR-based burned area mapping training in Indonesia

Within the framework of the GIZ’s FORCLIME programme, RSS was recently hosting a week-long training on burned area detection using Sentinel-1 satellite data. Over 20 Indonesian […]
Januar 19, 2019

New insights on the coastal accumulation of microplastics

Although freshwater systems are equally if not more contaminated with microplastics than the oceans, large rivers have been largely ignored in previous years. RSS has been […]
Dezember 12, 2018

We’ve moved!

Letzte Woche haben wir unser Büro von Baierbrunn an einen neuen Standort hoch über der Stadt München verlegt. Wir befinden uns jetzt im 13. Stock der […]
November 30, 2018

Best paper award for RSS and ICIPE at AARSE

Last month, RSS and ICIPE collaborated on a paper researching how remote sensing vegetation variables predict the spatial distribution of pests (Trioza erytreae) in Kenya. The […]
November 26, 2018

Success story of RSS published in “The Ever Growing Use of Copernicus across Europe’s Regions”

The publication is a collection of success stories on how Copernicus data meets the concrete needs of regional policy making. The RSS contribution “How Copernicus supports […]
Oktober 19, 2018

Join us at the COP13!

Meet RSS at the 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP13) which will be held in Dubai, […]
August 29, 2018

DeMo-Wetlands field survey and stakeholder meeting in Rwanda

The DeMo-Wetlands team traveled to Rwanda this month, meeting with local stakeholders and exchanging the latest advances in geospatial products for wetlands. The DeMo-Wetlands project has […]