Ecoinformatics, Biometrics and Forest Growth
Ecosystem Modelling

Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology
Georg-August-University Göttingen

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German

Research

Current and finished research projects

Spatial prediction and height growth modelling based on periodic forest inventories

(doctoral student: MSc Sebastian Schoneberg)

Grant: NWFVA Göttingen

Web-GIS based information system and research data management (INF project)

(scientific staff MSc Tim Ritter)

Grant: DFG (CRC 990)

Co-operation with: Dr. H. Neuroth, Prof. Dr. W. Kurth

finished 2015

Structural analysis and growth modelling in natural forests of Vietnam

(doctoral student: Cao Thi Thu Hien)

Grant: DAAD and Vietnam

finished 2015

Spatial information systems (UP3 subproject of joint research project „BEST – Strengthening of Bioenergy Regions“).

(scientific staff: MSc Jan-Christoph Thiele)

Grant: BMBF

Co-operation with: Prof. Dr. W. Kurth

finished 2014

Clustered subsampling of double sampling for stratification and growth model based updates of past forest inventories.

(doctoral student: MSc Nikolas von Lüpke)

Grant: DFG

finished 2012

Development of a Point Transect technique for estimating deadwood abundance in forests.

(doctoral student: MSc Tim Ritter)

Grant: DFG

finished 2012

Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) “Forests and climate change”

(doctoral students: MSc Robert Nuske, MSc Jan-Christoph Thiele)

Grant: BMBF

finished 2010

Integrated modelling of land use and environmental change and data management. (3^rd phase)
(scientific staff: Dipl. Geoök. Karl-Maximilian Daenner, Dr. rer. nat. Felix Mader, Dr. forest. Jens Nieschulze)
Grant: DFG (SFB 552)
Co-operation with: Prof. Dr. J. Alcamo, Prof. Dr. B. Sloboda

finished 2009

Measurement of gap patterns by digital height models and applications in beech forests of different utilization intensity.
(doctoral student: M.Sc. Robert Nuske)
Grant: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt

Small area estimation of stand tables using data of large-scale forest inventories.
(doctoral student: Dipl. Forst.-Ing. ETH Daniel Bierer)
Grant: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
finished 2008

Conditional prediction errors for point and area prediction in sample based inventories in forests.
(doctoral student: M.Sc. Andreas Dominik Cullmann)
Grant: DFG
finished 2007

Regionalized estimation of yield and increment in district inventories.
(doctoral student: Dipl.-Forstw. Arne Nothdurft)
finished 2007

Spatial, GIS-based analysis of game densities estimated by line-transect sampling.
(doctoral student: M.Sc. Felix Mader)
Grant: Land Niedersachsen (Graduiertenförderung) and DAAD
finished 2007

Integrated modelling of land use and environmental change and data management. (2^nd phase)
(scientific staff: Dr. forest. Jens Nieschulze)
Grant: DFG (SFB 552)
Co-operation with: Prof. Dr. J. Alcamo, Prof. Dr. B. Sloboda
finished 2006

Development of a web-based spatial information system dedicated to forest resources management.
(doctoral student: M.Sc. Shiming Li)
Grant: Land Niedersachsen (Ausländische Wissenschaftler nach Niedersachsen)
finished 2005

Spatial precision of geostatistical interpolation techniques for sample data in forestry.
(doctoral student: Dipl.-Stat. Almuth Wameling)
Grant: DFG
finished 2004

Regionalisation of variables from inventory data of forest enterprises.
(doctoral student: Dipl.-Forstw. Jens Nieschulze)
Grant: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
finished 2003

Analysis and practical application of alternative randomized branch sampling techniques.
(doctoral student: J. O. C. Cancino)
Grant: University of Concepción, Chile
finished 2003