EO4CAM - Earth Observation Innovation Laboratory for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
Subject: Climate change, climate adaptation and mitigation, climate competence, urban area, agricultural, forest, biodiversity, health and risk, remote sensing, Deep Learning & AI, environmental modeling
Study site: Bavaria, Germany
Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi)
Duration: 01.01.2024 – 12.31.2028
Contact: Tobias Ullmann, Hannes Taubenböck, Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt, Maninder Dhillon
The early detection of climate change and its ecological, economic, and social impacts, as well as the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies, are among the most pressing tasks of our time. Thanks to satellite data and its analysis, a highly modern and dynamically developing technology is available today. This makes it possible to understand the spatial and temporal consequences of climate change in terrestrial systems with unprecedented precision by analyzing the historical development of archive data, observing current changes, and, together with models, forecasting probable future developments. The information obtained from earth observation data can thus contribute to the development of suitable adaptation strategies to climate change.
The EO4CAM project aims to set up a joint expert group at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) and the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), which deals with the contributions of earth observation to climate change adaptation. The aim is to provide reliable, objective, and continuous information on ongoing change processes for Bavarian authorities and local authorities in a data portal, initially for Bavaria, and in the longer term beyond. Where possible, future scenarios will also be created so that sensible adaptations to climate change can be implemented.
The thematic foci are on urban areas, agriculture, and forestry, as well as cross-cutting issues such as georisks, biodiversity, and health.
The EO4CAM project runs from 01-01-2024 to 12-31-2028. It is led by the EORC with the departments of Remote Sensing (Prof. Dr. Tobias Ullmann) and Global Urbanization and Remote Sensing (Prof. Dr. Hannes Taubenböck) in the Institute of Geography and Geology at the JMU and funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi).
