[RS-ecology] summer school: Airborne remote sensing for monitoring essential biodiversity variables in forest ecosystems

[Martin Wegmann]

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RS4ForestEBV - Airborne remote sensing for monitoring essential 
biodiversity variables in forest ecosystems", the 9th EUFAR Training 
Course, financed by EUFAR and jointly organised together with the 
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the 
University of Twente, will be held in the Bavarian Forest National Park 
and the German Aerospace Centre - DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen from 3 to 14 
July 2017.

Forest management requires the use of comprehensive remote sensing data 
which enable monitoring biodiversity changes. Biophysical and 
biochemical vegetation parameters can characterise changes in 
biodiversity through changes in ecosystem structure and function. In 
this training course, the special skills required for processing the new 
generation of airborne hyperspectral, thermal, and LiDAR data for 
retrieving essential biodiversity variables in forest ecosystems will be 
presented.

The ground data collection that will be performed during the first week 
of the training course at the Bavarian Forest National Park aims to 
provide the participants (PhD students, post-docs and university 
lecturers) with knowhow on tools (field spectroscopy, thermal 
spectrometry and terrestrial LiDAR) and measurement techniques to 
collect different vegetation variables. In addition, an airborne 
campaign for concurrent acquisitions of hyperspectral, thermal and 
LiDAR, data will be organised during the training course if the weather 
conditions allow. The flight experiment will be conducted on board an 
instrument research aircraft (to be determined).

Data acquired during the training course as well as archived data will 
be processed and analysed in the hands-on sessions with the support of 
experienced users of airborne facilities and form the basis for the 
final scientific report. RS4forestEBV data will also be made available 
after the training course via the EUFAR website, accessible to all EUFAR 
registered members.

Furthermore, during the second week, participants will be able to attend 
certain sessions of the 2nd International Conference on Airborne 
Research for the Environment (ICARE) that will be held simultaneously on 
the DLR premises from 10 -13 July 2017.

http://eufar.net/projects/education-and-training/open-training-courses/

-- 
Dr. Martin Wegmann

University of Wuerzburg
Institute of Geography
Department of Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Research
Am Hubland
Oswald Kuelpe Weg 86
97074 Wuerzburg, Germany

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)

Phone:  +49-(0)931-31 83446
Email:  martin.wegmann at uni-wuerzburg.de

url: http://www.geographie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/fernerkundung_neu/startseite/
url: http://www.dlr.de/caf