UrbanSens wins DLR Copernicus Masters Prize

A team of students from the University of Würzburg's international Eagle master's program has won this year's DLR Copernicus Masters Challenge. With their UrbanSens concept, the prize winners aim to provide better living conditions in cities by deriving high-resolution information on temperature and air quality, among other things, from satellite data and making it available to the general public. Hot summers and poor air quality are already claiming many lives in major European cities. The proposed application therefore convinced the jury members from the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Stadtwerke München, BayWa, the University of Environmental Medicine Augsburg, ESA and DLR.