Current projects
Landklif - Mapping of land use and ecosystem services using remote sensing
- Subject: land use, ecosystem services, agrobiodi
- Study site: Bavaria, Germany
- Funding: Bavarian Climate Research Network (bayklif) as part of the portfolio of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
- Contact: Thorsten Dahms
MedWater (GROW) - Sustainable use of politically and economically relevant water resources in hydraulically, climatically and ecologically highly dynamic hard-rock aquifers in the Mediterranean region
- Subject: Agriculture and water management
- Study site: Mediterranean Region
- Funding: Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- Contact: Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt
WASCAL-DE-Coop
- Subject: Climate change and land use
- Study site: Africa
- Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Contact: Michael Thiel
Emission sources from satellite data for improved pollen forecasting in Bavaria (ESPE)
- Subject: Environmental health, digital health, forest monitoring, forestry
- Study site: Bavaria
- Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care
- Contact: Michael Thiel
SAR-based Monitoring of agricultural Areas (PhenoSAR-Demmin)
- Subject: Agriculture and phonological monitoring
- Study site: Demmin
- Funding: German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Contact: Johannes Löw
WUEKIS – Showcasing Remote Sensing Data and Products for Bavaria
- Subject: Land use, Bavaria
- Study site: Bavaria
- Funding:
- Contact: Thorsten Dahms
BikAir: Boosting in situ knowledge and monitoring of dynamic Air Quality parameters in urban environments
- Subject: Urban climate
- Study site: Würzburg
- Funding: Research fund of the Faculty of Philosophy I of the University of Würzburg
- Contact: Thorsten Dahms
SDGs4Namibia – DataCubes for SDG indicators
- Subject: DataCube, SDGs, big data
- Study site: Namibia
- Funding:
- Contact: Insa Otte
SALDi – Teilprojekt SALDi DataCube South African Land Degradation Monitor
- Subject: Land degradation, big data, DataCubes
- Study site: South Africa
- Homepage: https://www.saldi.uni-jena.de/
- Contact: Insa Otte, Pawel Kluter
AgriSens DEMMIN 4.0 Fernerkundungstechnologien für die Digitalisierung im Pflanzenbau
- Subject: Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft, Klimawandel, Wasserressourcen
- Study site: Experimentierfeld DEMMIN
- Funding: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
- Homepage: https://www.agrisens-demmin.de/
- Contact: Insa Otte
Landsurf (in Kürze erwartet) - 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: Thorsten Dahms, Michael Thiel
Migraware (in Kürze erwartet) - Rural-urban and cross-border MIGRAtion in West-Africa - an integrated assessment framework of drivers, processes and sustainable REsponses
- Subject: Interne und grenzüberschreitende Migration in Westafrika
- Study site: Westafrika (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria)
- Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Contact: Itohan-Osa Abu, 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
- Homepage: https://upscale-h2020.eu/
- Contact: Adomas Liepa, Michael Thiel
