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

Site Area Polsterberger Hubhaus 2022

Site Area Polsterberger Hubhaus 2023

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