Prof Carola Becker

Topic: Development of an integrative open space monitoring system for the city of Bonn

Head: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Carola Becker (as an expert opinion as part of the update of the "Integrated Open Space System of the City of Bonn"; Contractor: Institute for Landscape Development (ILS), Essen)

Duration: September 2011 to December 2013

Summary: The "IFS - Integrated Open Space System Bonn" was first developed in 1997 and was developed in the context of the urban development and economic structural change triggered by the Bonn-Berlin resolution. In the sense of a "bridging technology", all factual and specialised data was kept in a database at that time. The IFS 1997 was updated as part of the current project. All data was transferred to the City of Bonn's geo-information system and the implementation of planning since 1997 was evaluated. At the same time, the aim was to examine how regular updating and updating could be carried out in future with the aid of work-flow methods on the basis of the WEB-GIS. In addition, the aim was to set up a monitoring system within this framework that would enable regular and standardised reporting to the public. A pilot project was developed for this purpose. Open space monitoring is a building block for sustainable urban development.

Financing: City of Bonn

Prof Dr Thomas Brinkhoff

Topic: The OGC sensor observation service SOS 2.0 for moving objects.

Head: Prof Dr Thomas Brinkhoff

Collaborators: stud. HK (Jonas Tolzin)

Brief description:Environmental observations can be recorded via sensors and sensor networks and transferred to geodatabases. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed the SOS sensor observation service for the web-based retrieval of such environmental observations. The project aims to evaluate the extent to which the new version 2.0 of this service is suitable for recording moving objects (e.g. sensors attached to animals) and querying them spatio-temporally.

Duration: September 2013 to August 2014

Financing: Research fund of the Jade University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr Rainer Buchwald

Topic: Species support programmes for three FFH dragonfly species in NW Germany - scientific basis and measures to improve habitat quality and habitat connectivity

Head: Prof. Dr Rainer Buchwald

Collaborator: Friederike Kastner

Abstract: The intensification of land use and remodelling of the landscape in Central Europe is leading to declining populations of animal and plant species and the loss of populations and even the local or regional extinction of species.

The aim of the project is to analyse the status of the current populations and, based on this, to plan and test measures to improve the habitat quality and habitat connectivity of three endangered dragonflies listed in the Habitats Directive, the helmeted damselfly(Coenagrionmercuriale), the bird damselfly(Coenagrionornatum) and the green mosaic dragonfly(Aeshnaviridis), which are characteristic species of ditch systems in NW Germany.

Duration: April 2012 to September 2014

Financing: German Federal Environmental Foundation Osnabrück (DBU)

Prof Dr Corinna Hößle

Topic: Conception and opening of a Wadden Sea learning laboratory in cooperation with the ICBM

Head: Corinna Hößle, Dr Holger Winkler (ICBM)

Collaborators: Anja Wübben

Duration: 2013-unlimited

Financing: Wadden Sea Foundation, EWE

Background: In the Wadden Sea Learning Lab, which will officially open in March 2014, school classes can explore the topic of the Wadden Sea through research-based experimentation and modelling. They are guided by students from the biology teaching programme. The learning lab is available to school classes every Thursday