ECOSENSE – DFG Collaborative Research Centre
Project summary
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) ECOSENSE at the University of Freiburg focuses on developing advanced, intelligent sensor networks to monitor and predict changes in forest ecosystems, which are increasingly threatened by climate change. The Department for Sensor-based Geoinformatics contributes to this CRC with technologies like close-range remote sensing, vertical optical depth measurements, drone-based LiDAR, and satellite time series. This multimodal approach allows for a comprehensive analysis of ecosystem processes across various spatial and temporal scales.
| Associated researchers | Luis Kremer, Teja Kattenborn, Matthias Gassilloud, Anna Göritz, Kilian Gerberding |
| Collaborators | GFZ Potsdam, Fraunhofer IPM |
| Duration | 2022-2026 |
| Funding | German Research Foundation – DFG |
Project resources
- Collaborative Research Centre: https://ecosense.uni-freiburg.de/
- Project description at DFG: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/45981958
- Computer vision method: AngleCam, a method employed and developed further at the ECOSENSE site to track leaf movements (https://github.com/tejakattenborn/AngleCAM)
- Publication: Kattenborn et al. 2024, Nature Communications Earth & Environment: https://communities.springernature.com/posts/temporal-dynamics-in-vertical-leaf-angles-can-confound-vegetation-indices-widely-used-in-earth-observations
- Blog-Post: Nature´s Behind the Paper: https://communities.springernature.com/posts/temporal-dynamics-in-vertical-leaf-angles-can-confound-vegetation-indices-widely-used-in-earth-observations
- Featured news article: Uni Freiburg: https://uni-freiburg.de/bewegungen-von-pflanzenblaettern-verzerren-satellitengestuetztes-vegetationsmonitoring/