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

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

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

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

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
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

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

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

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

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

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