Satellite supported generation of area wide climate and vegetation datasets for an integrative analysis of ecosystem biodiversity relationships on grassland areas

Figure: The drone shot shows a landscape of green meadows with dirt roads in between, photographed from above. Two blue vehicles can be seen on one of the roads

Goals

Plot-based meteorological and certain ecological datasets can operationally be distributed in space with sufficient accuracy for further biodiversity-ecological analysis using readily available and inexpensive satellite imagery.
The focus lies on precipitation, solar irradiance (and its link to air temperature), light use efficiency and gross primary productivity.

Publications

Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Messungen der Globalstrahlung und aus Satellitendaten abgeleiteten Wolkeneigenschaften

Detsch F. (2010): Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Messungen der Globalstrahlung und aus Satellitendaten abgeleiteten Wolkeneigenschaften. Bachelor thesis, University Bayreuth

Datasets

Non-public datasets

DWD webwerdis (100year-data)

Otte, Insa; Hänsel, Falk; Nauss, Thomas; Forteva, Spaska (2012): DWD webwerdis (100year-data). Version 11. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. www.bexis.uni-jena.de. Dataset ID= 14526

Satellite data RapidEye

Kühnlein, Meike; Nauss, Thomas (2011): Satellite data RapidEye. Version 1. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. www.bexis.uni-jena.de. Dataset ID= 13866

DWD Climate Data

Kühnlein, Meike; Nauss, Thomas (2010): DWD Climate Data. Version 1. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. www.bexis.uni-jena.de. Dataset ID= 10042

Scientific assistants

Project manager

Prof. Dr. Thomas Nauss

Philipps-Universität Marburg

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Alumni

Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix