The Junior Professorship at the Long Night of the Sciences 2023 - A Review

For the first time the Junior Professorship for Environmental Remote Sensing took part in the 20th annual Long Night of Science. On the 30th July after much preparation, the group, together with our colleagues from the Junior Professorship for Geosensor Systems and Professorship for Photogrammetry, set up our exhibitions in the foyer of TUD’s Auditorium Centre. We immediately attracted visitors and provoked lively discussions with our displays about the 2022 Fires in Saxon Switzerland and the historical CORONA images from the CIA!
On a 3D model of the Saxon Switzerland and surroundings, generously lent to us for the evening by the National Park Centre in Bad Schandau, we projected maps of fire spread and intensity and showed the bark beetle infestation of the past years. The visitors were able to familiarise themselves with the relief of Saxon Switzerland and discuss the videos and animation of our research in the field of forest fires at local and global scales and vegetation moisture content.
In addition, we presented historical CORONA aerial photographs from 1965 and 1975 to give visitors an understanding of land cover changes over the past decades. Here you could discover the land cover in all of Saxony using GoogleEarth.
We would like to thank Mrs. Sabine Stab and her colleagues from the National Park Saxon Switzerland, who were with us in the evening and encouraged further exchange about Saxon Switzerland and the fire with the visitors. We hope we could inspire you with remote sensing and our research and thank you all for your visit, the interest and many new ideas. We are already planning the 21st Long Night of Science 2024!