Completed Third-Party Funded Research Projects

Duration: 6/2019 - 11/2023
Funding by: EU, Horizon 2020 (Grant ID: 821003)
Contact: Sönke Zaehle

Duration: 10/2020 - 09/2024
PI/Co-PIs: Jana Wäldchen

Effective and comprehensive biodiversity monitoring requires a broad range of methods and approaches. In the future, the most promising sources of new monitoring data will be in automated and semi-automated data collection and analysis methods that cover large spatial scales.

Participating department members: Jana Wäldchen, Negin Katal, Michael Rzanny

The Arctic Methane and Permafrost Challenge (AMPAC) is a transatlantic initiative by NASA and ESA. The project strives to address key questions related to the Arctic methane cycle in the context of climate change. Activities include synergistic assimilation of measurements, improvement of satellite retrievals with a clear focus on high latitudes, and promoting new dedicated satellite sensors as well as improving validation of existing and upcoming satellite missions. AMPAC-net is a networking activity bringing together experts in remote sensing (terrestrial and atmosphere), in situ measurements in permafrost environments and geospatial data dissemination in order to facilitate activities encompassing gap analyses, data collection, benchmarking and Bottom-up Top-down synthesis. more

Importance of biological drivers and the water transport for the explanation of biodiversity effects on carbon and nitrogen storage in the soil
Duration: 7/2016 - 6/2025
Funding: DFG
Contact: Gerd Gleixner more

Exploring mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Duration: 8/2016 - 6/2025
Funding: DFG
Contact: Susan Trumbore more

German-Brazilian collaborative project to study the role of Amazon rainforests in the changing Earth system. more

Duration: 1/2022 - 12/2024
Funding: Internat. Foundation Prize E. Balzan Fond, Zürich
Contact: Susan Trumbore

Duration: 5/2021 - 10/2024
Funding: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
Contact: Jana Wäldchen more

Duration: 1/2021 - 12/2023
Funding: EU, HORIZON 2020
Contact: Martin Jung more

Constraining terrestrial gross primary productivity by joint measurements of the carbonyl sulfide exchange and sun-induced fluorescence
Duration: 10/2019 - 9/2022
Funding: DFG
Contact: Tarek El-Madany more

Duration: 1/2021 - 12/2023
Funding: EU, HORIZON 2020; SPACE-2020 (Grant ID: 101004188)
Contact: Nuno Carvalhais more

Duration: 04/2022 - 04/2025
Funding: ESA, European Space Agency
PI/ Co-PIs: Fabian Gans
DeepESDL is a virtual laboratory providing data, tool, and computational resources to efficiently implement comprehensive processing workflows for Earth System data.

Participating department members: more

Duration: 1/2022 - 06/2025
Funding: DLR-RM-/BMWI-Förderrichtlinie
Contact: Basil Kraft, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein more

Duration: 5/2019 - 4/2023
Funding: EU, HORIZON 2020; Unterauftrag CMCC (Grant ID: 820852)
Contact: Markus Reichstein, Martin Jung more

Acronym: ClimGrasHydro
Duration: 5/2019 - 4/2022
PI/Co-PIs: Sönke Zaehle
Participating department members: Sönke Zaehle

Duration: 09/2024 - 11/2025
Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)
PI/Co-PI’s: Fabian Gans

In order to make change/loss of biodiversity visible, species knowledge is key - not only among experts, but for anyone. We developed the mobile app “Flora Incognita” that leverages modern computer vision techniques such as deep neural networks with a "connected data" approach, using site information (e.g. phenology, location, date and time) and plant morphological traits for semi-automatic species identification. The collected data are used to answer questions of plant species monitoring and phenology. 
The app was released in 2018 and has reached 7M downloads by 2023. It is freely available for iOS and in the Google Play Store. More information can be found on the Flora Incognita website.

Climate crisis and systemic risks: Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Duration: 15.06.2022 - 30.09.2023
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung, DFG Leibniz Award
Contact: Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank more

Duration: 01/2023 - 01/2025
Funding: ESA / Living Planet Fellowship
PI/Co-PIs: Javier Pacheco-Labrador
RS4BEF will develop new methods that allow remote sensing to decipher the role of vegetation functional biodiversity on ecosystem functions and environmental responses. IRS4BEF will determine which spectral information is necessary to characterize functionally-significant diversity and how to connect this new spatial information with ground measurements or remote estimates of ecosystem functions.

Duration: 10/2020 - 3/2023
Funding: ESA, Sub-Contract with Lund University
Contact: Sönke Zaehle, Tarek El-Madany more

Duration: 12/2020 - 11/2024
Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Contact: Jana Wäldchen more

The potential of Earth observation to capture patterns of biodiversity European forests and analyze their resilience
Duration: 1/2020 - 6/2022
Funding: BMWi, DLR
Contact: Javier Pacheco-Labrador more

Duration: 4/2022 - 3/2025
Funding: DFG (Grant ID: MI 2418/4-1)
Contact: Alexander Winkler

Monitoring biodiversity from space: exploring the potentials of ESA’s Copernicus and German national EO missions
Duration: 1/2020 - 6/2022
Funding: BMWi
Contact: Javier Pacheco-Labrador

Acronym: NUNATARYUK
Duration: 11/2017 - 10/2022
PI/Co-PIs: Mathias Göckede
Participating department members: Mathias Göckede more

Acronym: NUNATARYUK
Duration: 11/2017 - 10/2022
PI/Co-PIs: Mathias Göckede
Participating department members: Mathias Göckede more

Duration: 1/2020 - 11/2024
Funding: BMVI
Contact: Christoph Gerbig

Earth System Deep Learning for Seasonal Fire Forecasting in Europe
Duration: 3/2022 - 3/2023
Funding: ESA (subcontract)
Contact: Nuno Carvalhais
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Sentinel missions for Terrestrial Carbon Production
Duration: 06/2021 - 05/2023
Funding: ESA sub-contract
Contact: Martin Jung, Gregory Duveiller

The SLAINTE mission aims to study Sub-daily Land Atmosphere INTEractions to improve our understanding of rapid dynamics in the water and carbon cycles over land.
Duration: 11/2022 - 10/2023
Funding: ESA-Unterauftrag
Contact: Ana Bastos

Duration: 9/2020 - 8/2023
Funding: EU, HORIZON 2020 und EURAMET (Grant ID: 864769)
Contact: Heiko Moossen

Duration: 1/2019 - 12/2023
Funding: DFG, Weiterleitungsvertrag mit TU Braunschweig
Contact: Carlos Sierra