Projects

Sensor network In order to achieve the necessary data density in nature 4.0, a continuous, mobile and microhabitat-scale sensing of plants and animals is necessary to follow the principle of crowdsensing. In the Sensor Network (SN) work package the sensor boxes used for this purpose are designed and assembled and together with the coordination of the Nature 4.0 Lab their installation, maintenance and support are organized.

Ecological piloting The development of Nature4.0 requires detailed training and validation data sets. In the work package Ecological Piloting (EP) classical ecological in situ sampling methods are combined with the possibilities of Nature4.0. This ensures the provisioning of the necessary ecological basic data for the development of the individual models together with the WP Environmental Modeling. At the same time, a practical test for the documentation of the potential of Nature4.0 with regard to nature conservation monitoring and ecological research will be made possible.

Environmental modeling Nature conservation monitoring in Nature4.0 ultimately requires comprehensive and temporally homogenized data sets that map the ecological properties of the study area and the interaction networks linked to them. In the work package Environmental Modeling (EM), operational methods for deriving ecologically relevant information from the heterogeneous and spatially discontinuous data sets of the sensor boxes are being investigated and spatial prediction models are being developed.