Developing machine learning models for socio-economic & environmental analysis with Earth observation data

Group Leader

External ELLIS Ph.D.

External PhD

External PhD

Harkaitz Goyena Baroja

Visiting scholar from the Public University of Navarre (Spain)

Giel Hagenbeek, Tim H.M. van Emmerik, Tianlong Jia, Pummarin Khamdahsag, Kittiphon Boonma, Riccardo Taormina, Thomas Mani, Marc Rußwurm Exploring Transferability Of Plastic-Water Hyacinth Interaction And Detection In Rivers — SRRN (Preprint, 2026)
Milou Maathuis, Marc Rußwurm, Mathias Bochow, Tim H.M. van Emmerik Exploring Plastic Detectability On Riverbanks Using Remote Sensing — SRRN (Preprint, 2026)
Arjun Rao, Ruth Crasto, Tessa Ooms, David Rolnick, Konstantin Klemmer, Marc Rußwurm Localized, High-Resolution Geographic Representations With Slepian Functions — arXiv (Preprint) (2026)
Claire Robin, Markus Zehner, Laura Dénise Nadolski, Vitus Benson, Javier Lopatin, Nuno Carvalhais, Kirsten M. de Beurs, Markus Reichstein, Marc Rußwurm Sentinel-2 Reveals Prolonged And Localized Extreme Vegetation Anomalies Across Europe — SSRN Electronic Journal (2026)
Ahmed Emam, Mohamed Farag, Marc Rußwurm, Ribana Roscher NaT-ReX: Naturalness Assessment With Transformer-Based Reliable Explainability — Proceedings of the DAGM/GCPR Conference (2026)