Current projects
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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
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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
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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, Alexandra Bell, Sabine Oppmann
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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
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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
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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: 36 months
- Contact: Prof. Dr. Claudia Künzer, Dr. Felix Bachofer
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: Maninder Singh Dhillon
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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: Christoph Friedrich, Michael Thiel
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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
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Migraware - 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: Michael Thiel
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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
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Beta4
- Subject: Forest biodiversity, enhancing structural complexity
- Study site: Germany
- Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Homepage: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/for5375/
- Contact: Claudia Kuenzer, Martin Wegmann