Current projects
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
Savanna Ecology - Fire and Drought Impact on Savanna Ecosystems
- Subject: Climate change, climate adaptation, Africa, savanna, biodiversity, remote sensing, UAS, UAV, fire, drought stress, environmental modelling
- Study site: South Africa
- Funding: DFG, German Research Foundation
- Duration: 2024– 2026
- Contact: Mirjana Bevanda, Matin Wegmann , Tobias Ullmann
- Webpage: https://savanna-ecology.org
EOCap4Africa - Capacity Building, Wetlands ecosystems, Ecosystem Services
- Subject: Capacity Building, Wetlands ecosystems, Ecosystem Services
- Study site: Central Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa
- Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
- Duration: 01.10.2023 until 30.04.2026
- Contact: Insa Otte
NetCDA - Capacity building, West Africa, Climate change
- Subject: Capacity building, West Africa, Climate change
- Study site: West Africa
- Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Duration: 01/01/2024 to 12/31/2025
- Contact: Michael Thiel, Sabine Oppmann
FluBig: Fluvial Biogeomorphology across multiple scales
- Study site:: Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia
- Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Duration: 01.02.2024-31.01.2027
- Contact: Florian Betz
Aufforstung: Potentials of reforestation and forest restoration from a nature conservation perspective
- Subject: Forests, reforestation potential
- Study area: Germany
- Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
- Duration: 01.10.2022 – 31.03.2025
- Contact: Michael Thiel
Green Heart of Africa
- Subject: Research on environmental change in Central Africa in cooperation with the Senckenberg Institute and other interdisciplinary partner institutions
- Study site: Congo Basin - DRC, Congo, Angola
- Contact: Insa Otte, Michael Thiel
Dryland Earth Observation
- Subject: Analysis of deserts and semi-deserts using satellite and drone-based environmental information.
- Study site: Mongolia, Central Asia, Chile, Namibia, Oman, United Arab Emirates
- Contact: Tobias Ullmann, Florian Betz
riverMapper
- Subject: Development of methods of geomorphometry and satellite time series analysis for mapping rivers and their dynamics; implementation in an R package
- Study site: globally with a focus on Central Asia, India and Namibia
- Contact: Florian Betz
EO Arctic
- Subject: Remote sensing research in Arctic ecosystems in the context of global change and impacts on ecology and nature conservation
- Study site: Svalbard, Canada, Alaska
- Contact: Tobias Ullmann, Mirjana Bevanda
METAscales - Marine Extremes Transforming coAsts - pathways for coastal adaptation across scales
- Subject: Coast, extreme events, physical-oceanographic extreme scenarios, adaptation measures
- Study site: North Sea coast, Germany
- Funding: BMBF
- Duration: 2024-2027
- Contact: Prof. Dr. Claudia Künzer, Dr. Felix Bachofer
DSS4ES- Integrated DSS for delivery of ecosystem services based on EU forest policies
- Subjects: Forests
- Study area: Europe
- Funding: European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
- Duration: 29.09.2023 – 28.09.2027
- Contact: Michael Thiel
SOS Project: Serverless Scientific Computing and Engineering for Earth Observation and Sustainability Research (Kopie 1)
- Subject: animal movement, climate change, biodiversity, snow cover, deep learning & AI, multimodal remote sensing, bid data, serverless computing, component-based workflow engineering, platform development
- Study site: Deutschland
- Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Homepage: https://dfg-sos.de/
- Contact: Claudia Künzer, Celia Baumhoer
ROOT - Real-time earth Observation of fOrest dynamics and biodiversiTy
- Subject: NRT Products on canopy cover loss in forests of Bavaria
- Study site: Bavaria (Germany)
- Funding: Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Duration: 2023 - 2026
- Contact: Claudia Kuenzer
Beta4
- Subject: Forest biodiversity, enhancing structural complexity
- Study site: Germany
- Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Duration: 2023 - 2026
- Homepage: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/for5375/
- Contact: Claudia Kuenzer, Martin Wegmann
The ecosystem services of the 'urban forest': area-wide modeling using remote sensing and artificial intelligence
- Subject: Urban trees, ecosystem services
- Study site: Munich, Germany
- Funding: German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
- Duration: 12.2021 - 11.2024
- Contact: Hannes Taubenböck, Andrea Sofia Garcia de León
EFRE Maintal Project
- Subject: Climate change, climate impacts, risk, remote sensing, environmental modelling
- Study site: Maintal, Lower Franconia, Germany
- Funding: Government of Lower Franconia by authorisation of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (StMWK) in the operational programme of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- Duration: 01.06.2023 - 31.05.2027
- Contact: Tobias Ullmann, Hannes Taubenböck
Agri4cast Grassland Modelling - Improving Grassland Modelling at European Scale by Evaluating Novel Databases and Satellite Data
- Subject: Climate change, climate impacts, risk, remote sensing, environmental modelling
- Study site: European Union
- Funding: European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC); JRC/IPR/2023/VLVP/2667
- Duration: 15.12.2023 - 15.05.2024
- Contact: Tobias Ullmann
EO4Permafrost
- Subject Analysis of alpine and arctic permafrost and its dynamics using remote sensing
- Study site: Alps, Andes, Arctic
- Contact: Tobias Ullmann, Sebastian Buchelt
Remote sensing-based yield data
- Subject: Remote sensing, yield modelling
- Study site: Bavaria, Germany
- Funding: University of Bayreuth
- Duration: 01.06.2024 - 01.06.2027
- Contact: Maninder Singh Dhillon, Tobias Ullmann
Super-Test-Site
- Subject: Recording and analysis of local environmental conditions using a measuring bicycle
- Study site: Würzburg City
- Contact: Ariane Droin, Hannes Taubenboeck
LANDSURF - Land surface processses as a determinant of climate change in Africa – scenarios, high-resolution modeling and development of a stakeholder data portal
- Subject: Climate change, climate modeling, land use
- Study site: West Africa
- Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Contact: Insa Otte, Michael Thiel
UPSCALE - Upscaling the benefits of push-pull technology for sustainable agricultural intensification in East Africa
- Subject: Push-Pull agriculture, Crop types classification
- Study site: East Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ruanda)
- Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
- Duration: 2022 - 2025
- Homepage: https://upscale-h2020.eu/
- Contact: Michael Thiel
