ESPACE Seminar 2026 - List of topics

Topic Supervisor Student
1 The ESA Mission EarthCARE: Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer Kiemle
(christoph.kiemle@dlr.de)
Isabella Kullmer-Ispas
2 The German-French Climate Mission MERLIN: Methane Remote Sensing Lidar Mission Kiemle
(christoph.kiemle@dlr.de)
Alma Hasler
3 Satellite drag, correlations to solar flux, electron density and TEC Schreiter
(lucas.schreiter@tum.de)
Ka Wai Wong
4 GNSS tracking performance under the presence of strong ionospheric gradients Schreiter
(lucas.schreiter@tum.de)
Sanjna Prakash
5 Transforming CityGML Attribute Semantics into Supervised Learning Labels for Building Reconstruction Bittner
(ksenia.Bittner@dlr.de)
Aaron Redepenning
6 Comparison of Methods to Detect and Average Line-Like and Curved Structures in 2D Point Data Krieger
(lukas.krieger@dlr.de)
still available
7 Foundation Models for Earth Observation Ammar Ahmed
(go93wey@mytum.de)
Jiahao Liu
8 Integrated GNSS-InSAR Approaches for High‑Resolution 3D Crustal Deformation Monitoring Anders
(k.anders@tum.de)
Maria-Cristina Munteanu
9 International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF): Realization of a global geodetic coordinate system in mm-accuracy Seitz
(florian.seitz@tum.de)
still available
10 ESA’s new Genesis mission: Improving positioning and navigation on Earth Seitz
(florian.seitz@tum.de)
Rahul Dada Sharmale
11 Satellite Navigation from the Earth to the Moon Hugentobler
(urs.hugentobler@tum.de)
Mehmet Sinan Güneri
12 Transferring geodetic concepts to the moon by means of VLBI Reber
(matthias.reber@tum.de)
Marina Braun
13 Deep learning for ocean satellite altimetry Gaya Avila
(aina.gaya-avila@tum.de)
Valentin Höpfl
14 Global Mean Sea‑Level Rise in the Altimetric Era: Linear Trend or Acceleration? Passaro
(marcello.passaro@tum.de)
still available
15 Monitoring Arctic Ocean currents from satellites Pisareva
(maria.pisareva@tum.de)
still available
16 GRACE Monthly Gravity Field Recovery: Spherical Harmonics and Mascon Approaches Huiyi Wu
(huiyi.wu@tum.de)
still available
17 Regional Quantification of Earth's Mass Variation through Inter-satellite Ranging Shirui Yan
(shirui.yan@tum.de)
still available