Research projects

Current

• Multiscale functional-structural plant modelling at the example of apple trees
  Principal investigator: W. Kurth
  Funding period: April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2018
  Funding institutions: DFG, ANR


• Maintenance and further development of multimedia e-learning modules
  in the fields of statistics, GIS and ecoinformatics
  Principal investigator: W. Hakes
  Funding period: unlimited
  Means for funding: centrally administered funds for study quality


• Subproject INF "Web-GIS based information system and research data management" within Collaborative Research Center CRC 990 "Ecological and socioeconomic functions of tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)"
  Principal investigators: W. Kurth, J. Saborowski
  Funding period: January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2015
  Funding institution: DFG




Finished





• Work package "Spatial information system" in the joint project BEST: Strengthening bioenergy regions – new system solutions in the tension field between ecological, economic and social demands
  Principal investigators: W. Kurth and J. Saborowski
  Funding period: November 1st, 2010 - October 31, 2014
  Funding institution: BMBF



• Component-based, multi-scaled functional-structural plant modelling in the language XL
  Principal investigator: W. Kurth
  Funding period: July 1st, 2010 - June 30, 2012
  Funding institution: DFG
  DFG code: Ku 847/8-1


• Test of synchronous e-learning courses for teaching in the field of GIS, for use in several faculties
  Principal investigator: W. Hakes
  Funding period: April 1st, 2010 - March 31, 2012
  Means for funding: centrally administered students' fees


• Construction of an e-learning module for the open source GIS "Quantum GIS"
  Principal investigator: W. Hakes
  Funding period: April 1st, 2010 - March 31, 2011
  Means for funding: centrally administered students' fees





• Clustered subsampling of double sampling for stratification and growth model based updates of past forest inventories
  Principal investigator: J. Saborowski
  Funding period: 1. 9. 2009 - 31. 8. 2012
  Funding institution: DFG
  DFG-Az.: SA 415/5-1
• Development of a Point Transect technique for estimating deadwood abundance in forests
  Principal investigator: J. Saborowski
  Funding period: 16. 12. 2008 - 31.01.2012
  Funding institution: DFG
  DFG-Az.: SA 414/4-1
• Work package „Spatial Decision Support System Forest and Climate Change (SDSS)“ in the joint project Adaptation strategies for a sustainable forest planning under changing climatic conditions - Decision Support System Forest and Climate Change (DSS-WuK) -
  Funding period: 01. 07. 2007 - 31. 05. 2010
• Assessment of abiotic and biotic risks for spruce in Arnsberger Wald under changed climatic conditions
  Funding period: 01.07.2009 - 31.12.2009
• SFB 552, TP D5 Integrated Modeling of land use and data management
  Funding period: 01.07.2000 - 2009
• Graduiertenkolleg 1086, TP C3b: Räumliche Analyse und Modellierung von Boden- und Bestandesparametern in hoch diversen Laubwäldern
  Funding period: 01.04.2005 - 31.03.2008
• Erfassung von Lückenmustern mittels digitaler Höhenmodelle und Anwendung in Buchenwäldern unterschiedlicher Nutzungsintensität
  Funding period: 01.07.2004 - 30.06.2007
• Bedingte Vorhersagefehler für Punkt- und Flächenvorhersagen bei Stichprobeninventuren im Wald
  Funding period: 01.02.2004 - 31.01.2007
• ELearning Academic Network Niedersachsen (ELAN) - Modul Forst
  Funding period: 01.11.2002 - 31.12.2006
• Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen aus außereuropäischen Ländern nach Niedersachsen
  Funding period: 15.09.2003 - 14.09.2005
• Forstliche Standortklassifikation mit digitalen Werkzeugen in Nordrhein-Westfalen
  Funding period: 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2004
• Indikatoren und Strategien für eine multifunktionelle, nachhaltige Waldnutzung -
  Funding period: 01.01.1999 - 31.12.2003
• Stoffhaushaltliche und EDV-technische Erweiterung des niedersächsischen Standortkartierungsverfahrens zur flächenhaften dynamischen Beschreibung der Regelungsfunktion von Waldökosystemen
  Funding period: 01.09.1999 - 31.12.2003
• Regionalisierung von Variablen forstlicher Stichprobeninventuren auf Betriebsebene
  Funding period: 01.05.2000 - 30.04.2003
• Räumliche Genauigkeit geostatistischer Interpolationsverfahren für forstliche Stichprobendaten
  Funding period: 01.01.2001 - 31.12.2002