Welcome EON Summer School 2024 (01-06.09.2024)
Workshop Program
- Sunday (Waldhaus):
- 17:00-17:30 Check-in @ “The Cabin” (Waldhaus) Oderbrück
- 17:30-18:00 Welcome & Introduction
- Monday (Waldhaus):
- 09:00-12:00 Excursion with a local forest district manager to get an introduction to the Harz region and its current situation
- 12:30 Lunch @ Waldaus
- 14:00-16:00 Block 1 Collection of reference data for forest monitoring in the context of forest monitoring (Paul Magdon, HAWK)
- 16:30-18:00 Group work
- Tuesday (Waldhaus & Excursion):
- 09:00-13:00h Excursion with NP-Harz to visit some mire and discuss topics of water retention (Thomas Glinka, NP-Harz)
- 13:30 Lunch @ Waldhaus
- 14:00-16:00 Block 2 Current topics of remote sensing assisted forest inventories in the context of forest management planning (Andrea Plazas, NFP-Niedersachen)
- 16:00-18:00 Group work
- Wednesday (Waldhaus & Excursion):
- 09:00-13:00 Joint data collection campaign @ Polstertalerhubhaus
- 13:00 Lunch @ Polsterbergerhubhaus
- 15:00-17:00 Block 3 Machine learning and validation (Hanna Meyer, Uni Münster)
- 17:00-18:00 Group work
- Thursday (Waldhaus):
- 09:00-10:00 Block 4 Measuring microclimate with mobile climate station (Chris Reudenbach, Uni Marburg)
- 10:00-11:00 Block 5 Modelling microclimate (Chris Reudenbach, Uni Marburg)
- 11:00-12:00 group work
- 12:30 Lunch @ Waldhaus
- 14:00-16:00 Block 6 Describing and comparing spatial patterns (Jakub Nowosad, Uni Münster and Adam Mickiewicz Uni)
- 16:00-18:00 Group work
- Friday (Waldhaus):
- 09:00-10:00 Tidy up rooms
- 10:00-11:00 Final presentations of the group work
- 11:00-12:00 Check out of the guesthouse
- 12:00-13:00 Outside: Workshop closing / evaluation
- 14:00 Departure
Accomondation
- We will stay at: The Cabin Oderbrück
- Costs: 25€/Person/night, we will collect the money in cash from you.
Catering
- The house offers a great kitchen which will be used for the self catering.
- We plan to buy food & drinks jointly and organise the cooking, etc., on our own. So be prepared to help with the cooking, etc.
What to bring?
- Enthusiasm for field work in forest monitoring and remote sensing :)
- A laptop where you have admin permissions and with the following software installed:
- R/RStudio
- QGIS
- Notepad++/geany
- Outdoor/Hiking gear
- You can bring you own bed linen or rent it (~9€)
- Slippers
Area of Interest
We plan to work in the area of the forest district “Claustahl” which is in the west of the city Claustahl-Zellerfeld.
This forest area was dominate by spruce trees which all died in the last years.
You can download the geopackage with the AOI here:
Sensors & Equipment
- HAWK:
- Mavic 3 (Enterprise + Thermal + Multispectral)
- GNSS (Emlid, Alberding, Garmin)
- Tablets (Android)
- Forest Measurement Devices (diameter tapes, calipers, vertex, laser range finders, …)
- GeoSlam Mobile Laser Scanner
- Uni Münster:
- Mica Sens red edge (Multispectral)
- WIRIS thermal camera
- L1 Lidar (Dji)
- Sony Alpha (42mp) RGB camera
- ppm 10xx GNSS Sensor
- Uni Marburg:
- Mavic 3 (Enterprise + Thermal + Multispectral)
- Mavic 3 Mini Pro
- LoRa based real time climate sensors