Jan-Peter Mund

• Prof. Dr. rer .nat
• Professor at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

Rates of tree mortality are increasing globally, with implications for forests and climate. Yet, how and why these trends vary globally remain unknown. Developing a comprehensive assessment of global tree mortality will require systematically integrating data from ground-based long-term forest monitoring with large-scale remote sensing. We surveyed...

Severe storm events cause significant biomass losses in European forests. In addition to direct storm damage, biotic, abiotic, and market-related factors contribute to further damage with far-reaching effects on forest and nature conservation. These subsequent damages can be minimized if the amount of damaged timber and its spatial distribution are...

The new Biosphere Reserves Institute (BRI) at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) represents a pioneering effort to promote sustainable development and transformation. As an UNESCO Category 2 Institute, the BRI serves as an international think tank that advances science, technology and innovation in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves.

3D point clouds acquired with terrestrial or mobile LiDAR sensors are increasingly used to map urban forests. The segmentation of separate tree instances, i.e., subsets of points representing individual trees, is a relevant step in automatically extracting tree inventory data from 3D point clouds. Various algorithms have been proposed for tree inst...

Rapid urbanisation in the global south has often introduced substantial and rapid uncontrolled Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes, considerably affecting the Land Surface Temperature (LST) patterns. Understanding the relationship between LULC changes and LST is essential to mitigate such effects, considering the urban heat island (UHI). This st...

Rapid urbanisation in the global south has often introduced substantial and rapid uncontrolled Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes, considerably affecting the Land Surface Temperature (LST) patterns. Understanding the relationship between LULC changes and LST is essential to mitigate such effects, considering the urban heat island (UHI). This st...

The training manual outlines the main issues of using modern digital tools for the transformation of education in conditions of crisis and danger. It is designed for in-depth study of digital tools for online learning. It reveals the following topical topics of ensuring the quality of education by distance learning methods using various digital too...

Urban expansion, particularly in the global south, has brought numerous environmental consequences which require regular investigation. The current study assessed the growth of built-up areas in the Chbar Ampov district (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) using the Indices-Based Built-Up Index (IBI) derived from Landsat 8 satellite imagery. We applied the IBI m...

Urbanization has introduced substantial and rapid uncontrolled Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes often in the global south, considerably affecting Land Surface Temperature (LST) patterns. Understanding this relationship between LULC changes and LST is crucial for effective urban planning and environmental management, particularly in the face o...

The study revealed noticeable spatiotemporal variability in LST (20 to 69°C), predominantly influenced by seasonal patterns and LULC changes. The results showed a robust influence of seasons on LST dynamics, with marked fluctuations aligning with dry and rainy periods. We identified thermal hotspots and found these areas could guide targeted urban...

Rapid urbanization in the global south has often introduced substantial and rapid uncontrolled Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes. Such abrupt and significant land cover changes considerably affect the Land Surface Temperature (LST) patterns. Understanding the relationship between LULC changes and LST is essential for effective urban planning a...

The publication presents the results of the analysis of the survey of teachers and students on the state of distance education and the quality of e-learning courses in higher education institutions in Ukraine and on the methodological principles of their improvement. The aim of the work is to determine the prerequisites that affect the state of dis...

In the transition to renewable energies, the presence of large birds and birds of prey leads to conflicts of interest between nature conservation and achieving energy targets, especially in the construction of wind farms. The birds at risk of collision with wind turbines are frequently protected species, which presents a barrier to gaining approval...

The poster presents the findings from the study titled "Cooling Effect of Urban Green Infrastructure in Urban Areas: A Study using Land Surface Temperature". The poster was presented on 27 May 2022 at the Living Planet Symposium 2022 in Bonn (Germany).

High-resolution recording and forecasting of peatlands under forests in northeast Brandenburg (Germany) using remotely sensed data (Radar ALOS-PALSAR and Sentinel 1). Peatlands are important in terms of CO2 storage, water cycling, biochemical cycles, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Peatlands are constantly altered and damaged due to agricult...

The aim of this study was the development of a methodical processing line for estimating the log's volume from scanning logs using a long-range high-speed personal laser scanner (PLS) GeoSLAM ZEB HORIZON and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology in an open-source software framework of Cloud Compare. Additionally, the accuracy and...

The charcoal stock in a forestry business is controlled based on the theoretical capacity of the masonry ovens (input) and shipped trucks (output). During the year, the company must monitor the stock for accountability reports and internal governance. This paper proposes a more efficient and precise survey method that overcomes the challenges of th...

This study assessed the correlation between Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) in Phnom Penh City (Cambodia) within 2016- 2020. Understanding the LST and NDVI can be helpful to understand the Urban Heat Island (UHI) scenario, and it can contribute to planning urban greening and combating the effects of...

The increasing number of severe storm events is threatening European forests. Besides the primary damages directly caused by storms, there are secondary damages such as bark beetle outbreaks and tertiary damages due to negative effects on the market. These subsequent damages can be minimized if a detailed overview of the affected area and the amoun...

The charcoal stock in a forest company is controlled based on the theoretical capacity of the masonry ovens (input) and shipped trucks (output). During the year, the company must monitor the stock for the purposes of accountability reports. This study proposes a more efficient and equally precise survey method that overcomes the challenges of the c...

This paper demonstrates the use of remote sensing in planning urban green spaces (UGSs). UGSs emerged as a popular solution to combat the effects of Urban Heat Island, especially in tropical cities. UGS projects often need to identify priority implementation areas due to limited funding for UGSs. This study includes two Asian cities, namely Phnom P...

360° virtual forest tours (VFTs), created by state-of-the-art virtual reality technology, contribute to the progression of academic e-learning and forest management. The article proposes a conceptual framework for 360° VFT production and use to supplement field courses. Reflective insights into the authors’ own learning process in the production of...

This policy brief introduces preliminary research results of the Build4People project, funded by the German government as part of the multi-phase focus programme “Sustainable Development of Urban Regions”. Furthermore, the research agenda of the upcoming main four-year Research and Development phase (RD phase) will be introduced based on insights g...

Introduction: The destruction of habitats has not only reduced biological diversity but also affected essential ecosystem services of the Central European cultural landscape. Therefore, in the further development of the cultural landscape and in the management of natural resources, special importance must be attached to the habitat demands of speci...

Research evidences that intact ecosystems within cities considerably improve the quality of citizens’ lives. The Cambodian-German project Build4People aims to include urban ecosystems into the long-term urban planning strategies of Cambodian cities. Jan-Peter Mund, Ravi Jayaweera, Hor Sanara, and Michael Waibel present the ambitious project.

Multiple goals should be considered while planning and executing forest management. This study proposes a new multidimensional framework for a precision forestry approach assisted by airborne laser scanning data (ALS). Therefore, successful management operations become a key element in the process of promoting protection through sustainable develop...

The poster contains information about the general background, theoretical framework, objectives and milestones of the project. It will give an inside in the scientific appraoch of the workpackage WP#4 Urban Green More information can be found under www.build4people.org

Innovative and disruptive technological innovations trigger educational advances. Novel sensor-based distance and height measurement tools or wearable augmented realty (AR) devices and cameras have recently been introduced into several University curricula focusing on the environmental sector. Consumer gadgets and mobile GIS support students during...

The aim of this study was to develop an easily applicable, cost-efficient workflow for tree height estimation in remote, inaccessible rainforest areas in Ecuador and Brazil. Structure from Motion (SfM) was combined with a digital terrain model (DTM) from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) to complement relief information from photogrammetr...

The measurement of tree height has long been an important tree attribute for the purpose of calculating tree growth, volume, and biomass, which in turn deliver important ecological and economical information to decision makers. Tree height has traditionally been measured by indirect field-based techniques, however these methods are rarely contested...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and their application in intensive forest monitoring is opening up new possibilities for forest research. Recent trials have shown promising results for the extraction of tree parameters and the quantification of phenological observations. Long-term data acquisition strategies require the handling of large amounts of...

The presented research work tested the suitability of remote sensing via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and multispectral data as a low-cost solution for forestry applications. High-resolution 6-band multispectral aerial image sequences obtained via UAV acquisition flights in three research areas in Austria were photogrammetrically processed to coh...

Automatisierte Windwurferkennung mit Copernicus Sentinel 2 MSI Daten, SNAPPY und Index Differenzierung. Nach einem starken Sturm ist das reale Schadensausmaß in einem großen Waldgebiet mit der alleinigen Betrachtung vom Boden aus nur sehr schwer abzuschätzen. Daher lohnt sich immer ein Blick von oben! Extreme Wetterereignisse wie z.B. Starkwindere...

Emerging policy and business trends for bioeconomy, together with a wide range of societal interests for forest ecosystem uses demand for revised curricula for forest management. An international M.Sc. “Forestry System Transformation” is therefore developed at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development that seeks to educate critical forest m...

UAV-Nahbereichsluftbilder ermöglichen eine flexible, effiziente und genaue räumliche Vermessung von Hackschnitzelhaufen oder anderer großer Lagermengen von Schüttgütern. Der Einfluss des „Faktors Mensch“ wird reduziert, die Arbeitssicherheit erhöht im Rahmen regelmäßig wiederkehrender Inventuren bietet der Einsatz von Drohnen daher deutliche Vort...

Ferngesteuerte Flugobjekte erfassen Biomasse, Zuwachs und Kronenzustand. Immer mehr Forstwissenschaftler nutzen deshalb Drohnenfotos, um den Wald und seine Veränderungen zu untersuchen. An der Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung in Eberswalde arbeiten Professoren und Studierende an der Waldinventur 4.0 – mit 3D Bestandsmodellen aus Drohnenbilder...

Urbanization is one of the most dynamic processes in the context of global change. Deforestation and an increase in land consumption are considered major drivers of shrinking green spaces in urban and peri-urban areas. Forest loss and gain for the period 2001 to 2014 were analysed for nine European cities and their surrounding areas on the basis of...

Due to a still growing need for firewood and construction timber, the pressure for utilization on Myanmars remaining natural forests is steadily increasing. Furthermore, water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), one of the most invasive species worldwide, is becoming more and more of a challenge in valuable ecosystems of Myanmar like the Inle-Lake. T...

Die Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (HNEE) forscht in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) an einem neuartigen, mobilen und automatisierten Nahbereichserkundungsverfahren zur Erfassung und Vermessung von Einzelbäumen für die Forstwirtschaft. Um die großen Potentiale des Systems der Wirtschaft zu...

Holz wird als nachwachsender Rohstoff immer bedeutsamer. Detaillierte Kenntnisse über vorhandene Baumarten, Sortenqualitäten und die regional verfügbaren Holzvorräte sind heute die Grundbausteine einer kompletten Prozess- und Logistikkette in der modernen Holzindustrie. Um einen ökologisch nachhaltigen und wirtschaftlich dennoch effizienten Umgang...

henomapping is an approach which allows the derivation of spatial patterns of vegetation phenology and rangeland productivity based on time series of vegetation indices. In our study, we propose a new spatial mapping approach which combines phenometrics derived from high resolution (HR) satellite time series with spatial logistic regression modelin...

Three-dimensional modelling using photogrammetric point clouds derived from UAV-based aerial imagery is currently a popular topic in the scientific community. In particular, the use of image-based point clouds to enhance and update LiDAR DSMs is of growing interest in forest environments, i.e. as a future forest inventory method. Thanks to very hig...

Vorstellung eines automatisierten Forstinventurverfahren basierend auf mobiler terrestrischer Fernerkundung mittel Integrated Positioning System (IPS)

Zusammenfassung: Geodaten in Verbindung mit innovativen GIS-Methoden dienen weltweit als Grundlage für den Aufbau und die Fortschreibung sicherer und transparenter Flächenkataster. Die schnelle und zugleich präzise Vermessung von Grundstücksgrenzen mit Hilfe von GNSS und GIS gehört insbesondere in Entwicklungsländern zu den Erfolgsfaktoren im Landm...

Three-dimensional modelling using photogrammetric point clouds derived from UAV-based aerial imagery is currently a popular topic in the scientific community. In particular, the use of image-based point clouds to enhance and update LiDAR DSMs is of growing interest in forest environments, i.e. as a future forest inventory method. Thanks to very hig...

A case study to promote basic understanding of wildlife habitat modeling for students based on open source data.

Since two decades, the use of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) has become very prominent in analysing 3D forest structures (AKAY et al. 2009). The potential of full waveform analysis of high density Airborne LiDAR data (ALS) for the detection and structural analysis of multi-layered forest stands is...

Monitoring land surface phenology from satellites is essential for characterizing vegetation dynamics over large areas. Availability of very high spatial resolution image time series from RapidEye satellite constellations allow the phenology analysis also at field level, which is especially important for fragmented landscapes such as in South Afric...

Monitoring land surface phenology from satellites is essential for characterizing vegetation dynamics over large areas. With the current advances in satellite remote sensing, availability of very high spatial resolution image time series makes it possible to map phenology also at field level, which is especially important for fragmented landscapes...

The most obvious effect of urbanization is the spatial expansion and morphological change of cities. There are many individual factors influencing the physical urban growth, however it can be observed, that almost every capital city in Europe increases spatially over time. In this study we aim to find similarities and differences in spatial growth...

Water hyacinth, or Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms, is an invasive and free floating water plant, native to South America that has often been marked as one of the world's worst invasive aquatic species. It grows into large dense vegetable carpets that block sun energy transmission into shallow waters or even the lake bottom. This study focuses o...

Do agroforestry concepts and other sustainable tropical farming strategies could provide an alternative for the intensification and modernization of smallholder cocoa production in West Africa? Since more than two decades, the use of agroforestry systems in cocoa production is propagated in order to protect the regional biodiversity. Changing the p...

The coastline of the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam is rapidly changing. Since hydro engineering, dam construction and urban development is increasing in the up-stream catchment the long term natural equilibrium of sedimentation and erosion has become instable. The detected shoreline movement poses considerable vulner-ability for regional human livelihoo...

Automatisierungsroutinen sowie semi-automatische echtzeitbasierte Erfassungsmethoden wichtiger forstlicher Bestandsparameter haben heute eine hohe Relevanz, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Verwendung der räumlich erhobenen Attributdaten innerhalb von modernen 3D und 4D Waldwachstumsmodellen, wie z. B. " B-Win-Pro " oder dem " Waldplaner ". Ein Großte...

Do agroforestry concepts and other sustainable tropical farming strategies could provide an alternative for the intensification and modernization of smallholder cocoa production in West Africa? Since more than two decades, the use of agroforestry systems in cocoa production is propagated in order to protect the regional biodiversity. Changing the p...

Dieses im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit entstandene Paper beschäftigt sich mit der automatisierten Erkennung von forstlichen Rückegassen in hochauflösenden Satellitenbildern, in reinen Kiefernbeständen, in Brandenburg. Nach der Segmentierung des Satellitenbilds in Objekte werden statistisch ausschlaggebende Kriterien für die Klassifizierung genutzt, um...

Die vergangenen fünf Jahre haben eine kontinuierliche technische Weiterentwicklung und stetiges Wachstum in der angewandten Erdbeobachtung mit sich gebracht. Es hat nahezu eine Verdoppelung der Missionen im Orbit gegeben. Gleichzeitig wurden die Satellitendaten in den vergangenen 10 Jahren über Geodatenbrowser und öffentliche Datenarchive zunehmend...

The paper presents an international multi-disciplinary initiative, a Namibia SensorWeb Pilot Project, that was created as a testbed for evaluating and prototyping key technologies for rapid acquisition and distribution of data products for decision support systems to monitor floods. Those key technologies include SensorWebs, Grids and Computation C...

Rapid Shoreline changes and movement of sediment caused by erosion and deposition is a major concern for managing the coastal zone in the Mekong Delta in Southern Viet Nam. Such morphologic processes are the result of natural and man induced processes of erosion, summing up to 50 km² of eroded coastal areas in Cau Mau Province, already in 2005. The...

Seit zehn Jahren steigt die Zahl der Landkonflikte in Kambodscha. Bereits 2006 schätzte die Weltbank, dass 30 Jahre nach dem Beginn des Regimes der Roten Khmer, 40.000 Einwohner als Folge von Landkonflikten aus Phnom Penh vertrieben wurden. Der Artikel schildert Beispiele der Vertreibung in Stadteilen von Phnom Penh und analysiert, warum das kambod...

Der Artikel beschreibt die forstspezifische Anwendungen von Smartphones auf und zeigt anhand von Beispielen, wie die mit dem Smartphone gesammelten Daten mit den gängigen geografischen Informationssytemen verbunden und darin integriert werden können.

»Water efficiency, and particularly drinking water loss, is a widespread issue which has significant financial and environmental repercussions. However, awareness regarding the scope of the problem and available solutions is lacking. To contribute to addressing this need, the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) is pleased to...

Das Problem des schrumpfenden Aralsees ist hinlänglich bekannt, wesentliche Auswirkungen sind beschrieben und extensiver Bewässerungsfeldbau in Zentralasien wurde als Hauptursache identifiziert. Zur agrarindustriellen Produktion von Baumwolle wurde seit den frühen 1960er Jahren entlang der beiden großen Flüsse Amudarja und Syrdarja ein extensives K...

Land management and land administration are defined as a system of planning, management and administration methods and techniques that aims to integrate ecological with social, economic and legal principles in the management of land for urban and rural development purposes. The main objective is to meet changing and developing human needs, while si...

Rapid urban sprawl and unmonitored urbanization of the peri-urban environment are impor-tant challenges for land managers and urban planners in many Asian cities. Several studies show the potential of remote sensing techniques for monitoring the impact of urban expan-sion on physical and ecological sources over time (e.g. Haack et al. 1997, Jensen...

Continuous development in Remote Sensing and Earth Observation (EO) technologies with new sensors and innovative applications requires a constant training and enhancement of professional capacities of EO users in all sectors. Consequently DLR-DFD has started a professional capacity development program including customised trainings and tailor made...

Irrigated croplands are key assets in Central Asian economies. However, agricultural decision makers in Central Asia have to deal with multiple challenges in order to achieve sustainable crop yields. These include e.g. designing appropriate water distribution plans, achieving sustainable land use and targeting optimized fertilizer applications. In...

Spatial information is essential for sustainable development. In developing countries land management is often hindered by the absence of national spatial-information policy, guidelines for metadata management and co-ordination of spatial data. The author describes the situation in Cambodia. Planning and land administration requires a comprehensive...

Cambodian agriculture bases predominantly on rice production of small farmer communities currently employing approximately 80% of the economically active population. Over the last 10 years, major agricultural activities in Cambodian upland have changed from mainly swidden and shifting cultivation of smallholders to large-scale economic land concess...

This paper examines examples of vulnerability and resilience at the Cambodian rural-forest interface. Poor and rural population are often considered as the key factors for land degradation, next to exploitation of timber products, mining, and plantations which increases inherent vulnerability of the fragile ecosystem at the agricultural forest inte...

In Entwicklungsländern sind es häufig administrative, respektive sicherheitsrelevante Restriktionen der jeweiligen Regierungen, die den Zugang zu aktuellen Planungsmaterialien wie z. B. hochauflösenden Satellitenbildern einschränken. Vielen Institutionen der Zivilgesellschaft, sowie Universitäten, wird der Zugang zu aktuellen und detaillierten Erdb...

Agriculture plays the most important role in Cambodian society by ensuring food security at community and national level. Although Cambodia has achieved overall national rice self sufficiency with a very small surplus at the national level since 2000, there are still regional and local deficit regions, in particular in remote rural areas on unsuita...

Widespread land degradation, climate change conditions and intermittent droughts and severe water shortages represent significant challenges for traditional rainfed rice agriculture in drier and less fertile parts of Cambodia. More diversified smallholder faming systems are one key to sustainable development to reach MDG 1, Target 2 and MDG 7, Targ...

In the 1960s Cambodia has had higher percentage of the forest cover than any other country in South East Asia with a forests cover of 13.2 million ha, or 75%of the country. According to the MEKONG SECRETARIAT (1994), the forest cover of Cambodia was already reduced to 65% in 1985 and continued to decline to 62% in 1996/97. Based on different indica...

Cambodia SUMMARY The paper presents the application of a land resources assessment (LRA) method for a social land concessions program to assess biophysical resources - their condition, trends and capability for use in rural Cambodia. The applied landscape-ecological method takes account of topography, climate, soils, geology, biological diversity,...

Land Management and Land Administration is defined as a system of planning, management and administration methods and techniques that aims to integrate ecological with social, economic and legal principles in the management of land for urban and rural development purposes. The main objective is to meet changing and developing human needs, while sim...

In Cambodia, the escalating growth in urban population has led to accelerating deficiencies in urban infrastructure and efficient planning for urban services and development concepts. As a historical consequence, today land use planning and urban land management are among the most pressing development issues in Cambodia. Based on regional land asse...

In Cambodia today land use planning and urban land management are among the most pressing development issues. Based on regional land assessment and local development plans, this paper presents conceptual as well as technical approaches to effective participatory land use planning in two Cambodian cities (Kampong Speu and Battambang).

The Akagera national park in the northeast of Rwanda is exposed to an increasing land use pressure since its restructuring in the year 1997 and the increasing settlement of its surrounding countryside. A first qualitative investigation of the vegetation changes and soil degradation caused thereby is to serve the evaluation of the ecological situati...

Smallholder food production, as well as cash-crop production of cacao, coffee, etc. provides the basis of the Ivorian agricultural economy. Since ten years the importance of paddy rice production and consumption has increased steadily. But even today, more than 80 percent of the local rice yields are still produced as upland rice. In the last years...

Chances and problems of forest management and afforestation in the humid forest zone of the Ivory Coast: Far-reaching changes in the forestry legislation since 1994 force the timber companies in the Ivory Coast to carry out afforestation measures for and with the local population in their concession areas. By the example of one of the first pilot p...

Far-reaching changes in the forestry legislation since 1994 force the timber companies in the Ivory Coast to carry out afforestation measures for and with the local population in their concession areas. By the example of one of the first pilot projects the authors analyse the execution of reforestation at a village level. From the view of pedology...

Geographische Informationssysteme (GIS) können heute als moderne, computergestützte, digitale Daten- und Kartenbanken mit einem konkreten, interaktiv nutzbaren Raumbezug zu einer Karte bezeichnet werden. Diese Computerprogramme dienen der Analyse und Darstellung und Präsentation räumlicher, d. h. im weitesten Sinne geographischer Daten, die heute e...

Geographische Informationssysteme (GIS) zählen in zahlreichen Berufen zum unentbehrlichen Arbeits- und Analysewerkzeug und gewinnen auch im schulischen Bereich an Bedeutung. (Orig.) Die Autoren stellen ein bewährtes und besonders schultaugliches Programm vor: das Diercke GIS.

Since more than thirty years, the geomorphologic research on tropical inland valleys and depression derives several regional definitions and local classification for tropical Africa. Many authors defined them as small upper reaches of larger river systems in which alluvial sedimentation processes are absent, without any distinct system of floodplai...

Tropical rainforest-ecosystems are often affected by severe human interventions, which are resulting in irreversible soil modifications. This could be demonstrated by geomorphological and pedological studies in the rainforest area of South West Ivory Coast. The humus and nutrient degradation of plinthic rich ferralsols were documented and analysed....

The destruction of the natural forest reserves of the Ivory Coast over the past 30 years is a direct result not only of unrestrained, devastating logging, but also the cultivation of widespread land stretches to cater for an export-oriented agricultural production and a sharp increase in the number of immigrants. To date hardly any measures have be...