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Geosensors and Engineering Geodesy

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Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Space Geodesy

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Past chair: Mathematical and Physical Geodesy

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A new information video "external page Earth Observation Swiss Made" by Space Exhange Switzerland features several projects from IGP.

Our snow mapping project was featured on BBC Click: Spencer Kelly visits ETH Zurich to see the latest tech helping us learn about ecosystems and climate. Download More

New publications by Kiani Shahvandi et al. (2024): An international team of researchers have uncovered the influence of ongoing climate change on movement of the Earth's rotation axis (polar motion) and its rate of rotation (length of day). More

How climate change is altering the Earth's rotation featured on ETH news

The Swiss Network with Ukraine was constituted as an association in a meeting at ETH on 1.7.2024.

From 14-19 April 2024 the European Geoscience Union General Assembly (EGU2024) took place in Vienna and online. The Space Geodesy group was well represented with 8 oral contributions and 3 poster presentations as main authors and several contributions as co-authors. More

Global ZWD maps — Crocetti et al. (2024)

New publication by Crocetti et al. (2024): "Global, spatially explicit modelling of zenith wet delay with XGBoost". More

New publication in Nature Water by Gou and Soja (2024): "Global high-resolution total water storage anomalies from self-supervised data assimilation using deep learning algorithms". More

Our project on Ukraine damage predictions featured on ETH news

Our project on DeepSnow was featured on the ETH frontpage and ETH Industry Relations:

Our project to map cocoa planting in Western Africa has been featured in the media:

Neue Zürcher Zeitung
external page Schokolade aus abgeholzten Wäldern: jede achte Tafel betroffen
The Guardian
external page Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study finds

Our project on Canopy Height Mapping was featured in several international media and tech blogs. Check them out:

external page 10vor10 (news journal on Swiss TV)
ETH News
external page Science.ORF.at
external page RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse Romande)
external page Südostschweiz.ch
external page Nvidia Developer Blog
external page NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day
external page NBC

The Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing group has been granted a new project on "Remote Monitoring of Armed Conflicts”, within the Engineering Humanitarian Aid Initiative between ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne and the Red Cross (ICRC).
Detailed information can be found here (February 2022).

Studying within the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry offers a wide range of courses and covers uncountable topics. In order to get an impression click here to see our latest video!

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Institut of Geodesy and Photogrammetry

Our core competences are the science of geomatics, especially Geodetic Metrology and Engineering Geodesy, Satellite Geodesy, Physical Geodesy and Geodynamics, Photogrammetry, Image Analysis and Remote Sensing.