Felix Morsdorf wins Remote Sensing Award of the Nico Rüpke Foundation and the DGPF
We are pleased to announce that Felix Morsdorf, together with Mauro Marty and Daniel Kükenbrink, has been awarded the Remote Sensing Prize of the Nico Rüpke Foundation and the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF).
The prize recognizes an outstanding scientific-technical contribution submitted to the DGPF annual conference proceedings. The awarded work, developed in collaboration between the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), focuses on the structural characterization of temperate forest stands using drone-based photogrammetry, demonstrating that, when a high number of images from diverse viewing angles are used, the resulting forest structural information can be comparable in quality to that obtained from a dedicated LiDAR-equipped drone.
The award was presented during the 2025 tri-annual meeting of the German, Austrian and Swiss Societies of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Dreiländertagung) in Muttenz/Basel and is endowed with a prize of 1,000 euros, sponsored by the Nico Rüpke Foundation.
Felix Morsdorf