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CARE-X Biodiversity Monitoring (DLR)
Title: | CARE-X - Change
Detection Analysis for the Monitoring of Biodiversity in the Framework
of the NATURA 2000 Directive Utilizing RapidEye and TerraSAR-X
Satellite
Data |
Funding: | Space
Agency of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with funding of the
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (FK:
50EE0923) |
Partners: | Luftbild
Umwelt Planung GmbH Dipl.-Ing. Gregor Weyer Dr. Annett Frick Große Weinmeisterstr. 3a Potsdam Leibniz Universität Hannover Institut für Photogrammetrie und GeoInformation Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Sörgel Nienburger Str. 1 Hannover |
Duration: | 4/1/2009
- 3/31/2012 |
Research
Associate: | Dipl.-Geogr. Christian Schuster Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Gränzig [1] |
Project
Lead: | Prof. Dr. Birgit Kleinschmit [2] Dr. Michael Förster [3] |
Reports: | CARE-X-Project
Report [4] |
Description
Main
focus of the project is the developement of a remote sensing
technology for European monitoring of NATURA 2000 areas to fulfill the
obligations of the EU commission for the member states.
NATURA 2000 Monitoring
NATURA 2000 sites cover
approximately seven per cent of the territory of Germany. The EU
Habitats Directive (council directive 92/43/ECC) requires a
standardised monitoring of the habitat types and a reporting every six
years. For this reason, an operational, objective, economically priced
and as far as possible automated application is required. The rapidly
developing remote sensing sensor technique and also new image
processing methods offer new possibilities to apply remote sensing
data for NATURA 2000 monitoring. The possibilities of remote sensing
techniques for detecting and monitoring of biodiversity within the
scope of the Habitats Directive has already been proven by EU projects
SPIN and EON 2000+. Consequently this study is a contribution to an
effective implementation of these methods for operational use at the
regional level (of German federal states). For this purpose methods
for large-area covering classification of high temporal resolution are
required.
Change Detection Analysis for
Monitoring of Biodiversity
For the monitoring of
biogeographic regions information about the structure and composition
of the existing vegetation within a growth period are required. With
temporal very high resolution (TVHR) satellite data, such as RapidEye
and TerraSAR-X, the dates for a highly effective utilization of
aquired images for different vegetation types and habitats can be
detected.
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