Universität Bonn

Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation

Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation

Rooted in mathematics, geodesy represents a highly interdisciplinary science, with applications to understanding risks to society and to developing sustainable pathways for human development. At IGG, we focus on using geodetic data for assessing climate change and monitoring the environment (including defining a global reference system), on land use management, property markets, urban planning, and ecosystem services assessment, and on developing sensor systems that aid precision agriculture and robotic systems research.

Sources of information that we analyze reach from dedicated gravity satellites such as GRACE and GRACE-FO, radar altimeters, multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing satellites, multi-GNSS, aerial, UAV- and vehicle-based sensors, and terrestrial instrumentation such as cameras and laser scanning. These geodetic data allow constructing space-time surface reconstructions at various scales that are used e.g. in sea level research, in the mapping of regional land subsidence or in plant phenology mapping, and deriving gravity field and mass change models, which in turn inform numerical simulation models. [...] read more

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Climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean
South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water – by up to two millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed up to now that this phenomenon was due to mantle flow in the Earth’s crust. However, a study carried out by the University of Bonn now provides another explanation: Droughts and the associated water loss are the main reason for this land uplift. The results have now been published in the “Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.”
DynamoBot - a PhenoRob Startup
At the PhenoRob and University of Bonn Start-Up DynamoBot, we are building the next generation of precision farming and precision weed management for farmers.
UAV-based Spot Spraying Against Plant Diseases
Plant diseases often exhibit a patchy distribution within fields. The application of fungicides, however, is often based on environmental conditions and visual assessment and then, in practice, is homogeneous over entire fields. A site-specific control of plant diseases with robotics and drone technology provides the potential to improve the efficacy of disease control while reducing the negative impact on agricultural ecosystems.
Digital Agricultural Avatar
The PhenoRob Digital Agricultural Avatar is a software that facilitates access and usability of process-based simulation agro-models under one roof. Our aim is to provide information and a usage platform to make process-based agro-models available in an appealing way both for users as well as for the public.
Bee Demonstrator - Detect and Identify Pollinators in the Field
Field margins, floral plantings, and crops offering nectar and pollen to insects may contribute to ecosystem service delivery (pollination) and ecological intensification of agriculture. The application of machine learning on data collected using low-cost RGB cameras represents a new opportunity to investigate, evaluate, and optimize the attractiveness of such cropping systems to beneficial insects.
Automated Leaf-Level Inspection of Crops by Combining UAV and UGVs
Robotic systems play a major role for realizing the vision of sustainable crop production. While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used to monitor the health status of agricultural fields using sensors like RGB cameras, multi-spectral cameras, and LiDAR, it is often still necessary to literally walk into the field to do close-up inspections of individual plants or even leaves for the detection of diseases or nutrient deficiencies in early stages of plant growth. 
Tag der Geodäsie
Institut für Geodäsie ...
02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
An dem Tag erfährst Du, was sich eigentlich hinter dem Begriff Geodäsie verbirgt. Danach hast du bei einer Postersession Zeit, mit den einzelnen Arbeitsgruppen ...
Geodätisches Kolloquium | Dr. Barbara Brilmayer et al.
Nußallee 17, 53115 Bonn
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Das Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation der Universität Bonn sowie der DVW NRW e.V. - Gesellschaft für Geodäsie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement - laden ...
Geodätisches Kolloquium | Prof. Dr. Stefan Leutenegger
Nußallee 17, 53115 Bonn
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
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DIGICROP 2025 ...
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... is a scientific event addressing an international and interdisciplinary audience working at the intersection of engineering, robotics, computer science, ...
Geodätisches Kolloquium | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Weigt
Nußallee 17, 53115 Bonn
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
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