Buchensterben – JenaCopterLabs

June 20, 2025

FSU Jena wins the SPSG Park3D Project!

The FSU Jenacopter Labs team wins the Park3D project proposal with SPSG (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten). In 2025 and 2026 we will in detail analyze the vitality of the vegetation in the historical park regions Sanssouci and Babelsberg / Potsdam with various copter-based sensors: The P1 (a 35mm full frame 45 Megapixel RGB camera) will be used for detailed...

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