Buchensterben – JenaCopterLabs

June 20, 2025

FSU Jena wins the SPSG Park3D Project!

The FSU Jenacopter Labs team has been awarded the Park3D research project in collaboration with the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten (SPSG). In the years 2025 and 2026, we will conduct a comprehensive remote sensing analysis of vegetation vitality within the historical park landscapes of Sanssouci and Babelsberg (Potsdam), utilizing a suite of UAV-based sensor systems. To capture high-resolution structural...

Crown Structure/Forest decline/Quadrocopter/Workflow

December 12, 2020

Stand Gap Analysis in the Hainich National Park between 2018 and 2020.

Some results from our stand gap analysis for July 2018 , July 2019 and July 2020 are now finished. Some figures below. There is a strong change process in the northern part of the Hainich landscape region in progress – likely dominated by forest management activities . removing the dying beech trees from the stand. Our spatial analysis indicates that...

"forest decline"/Crown Structure/Forest decline/Phantom

September 6, 2019

UPDATE: Flying for the Beech Trees II

Since July we have been very active covering the forest change in the Hainich National park region using the Phantom 4 Pro copter and the new Phantom 4 RTK (P4R). A project in cooperation with the Hainich national park administration, ThüringenForst and DLR Institute for Data Science Jena. First flights over 5 test areas were done already in July. We...

Crown Structure/Forest decline

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FSU Jena wins the SPSG Park3D Project!

Stand Gap Analysis in the Hainich National Park between 2018 and 2020.

UPDATE: Flying for the Beech Trees II