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June 20, 2025

FSU Jena wins the SPSG Park3D Project! Updated

First L2 Lidar data capture over Park Sanssouci – (2025-07-20)  Priority was on detailed and dense vegetation point clouds. The L2 was used in 120m AGL with 240khz capture rate and 5-returns activated and 70% track overlap at 8m/s speed.  We generated a 2.4billion point cloud description. The following animation is from a downsampled version of only 500 mio points....
Categories 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...
Categories "forest decline"/Crown Structure/Forest decline/Phantom
July 26, 2020

UPDATE 12.12.2020: Beech Tree Damage Analysis in the Historical Parks – South-West of Berlin

UPDATE 12.12.2020: First classification within the SPSG park regions of four different damage categories was done in December 2020 using the TensorFlow CNN implementation. The first test area is the landscape park area “Glienicke” in the south-west of Berlin. The area shows a severe degradation of beech trees on some locations and is as of now not open for the...
Categories "forest decline"/Crown Structure/Forest decline/Quadrocopter
January 30, 2020

Buchen in Not

A short article about our work in the Hainich National Park area on the beech degradation analysis appeared in the Journal of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena “Lichtgedanken” in Edition 7. You can read the PDF version here: http://www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/magazinmedia/Aktuelle+Ausgabe/Lichtgedanken+07+%E2%80%93+Zukunft+ohne+Wachstum-download-1.pdf or the HTML version here: https://www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/Ausgabe_07_Buchen_in_Not-path-140,5.html There will be also an english language version soon.
Categories "forest decline"/Forest decline