The project DIGSTER - Map and Go (Digital Based Terrain Mapping) aims at the technical aspects of digital terrrain mapping. For many questions in administration, planning and expertise terrrain mappings are indispensable. The whole process starting with the data acquisition in the field and ending with map products will be digitally performed by the system. Therefore, a platform appropriate for the use in the field (PDA) is combined with technologies from the disciplines of satellite navigation, remote sensing, communication, and mobile geoinformation systems. For DIGSTER a lot of practical applications already exist in connection with policies and directives on the national and also European level.
Comprehension of belowground competition between plant species is a central part in understanding the complex interactions in intercropped agricultural systems, between crops and weeds as well as in natural ecosystems. So far, no simple and rapid method for species discrimination of roots in the soil exists. We will be developing a method for root discrimination of various species based on Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR)-Attenuated Total Reflexion (ATR) Spectroscopy and expanding its application to the field. The absorbance patterns of FTIR-ATR spectra represent the chemical sample composition like an individual fingerprint. By means of multivariate methods, spectra will be grouped according to spectral and chemical similarity in order to achieve species discrimination. We will investigate pea and oat roots as well as maize and barnyard grass roots using various cultivars/proveniences grown in the greenhouse. Pea and oat are recommendable species for intercropping to achieve superior grain and protein yields in an environmentally sustainable manner. To evaluate the effects of intercropping on root distribution in the field, root segments will be measured directly at the soil profile wall using a mobile FTIR spectrometer. By extracting the main root compounds (lipids, proteins, carbohydrates) and recording their FTIR-ATR spectra as references, we will elucidate the chemical basis of species-specific differences.
The classical point wise Cornell-McGuire probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA), which is widely used for seismic hazard mapping and development of design codes, does not allow direct estimation of multiple-location hazard for distributed structures and facilities: what is the (annual) probability that specific level of ground motion will be exceeded simultaneously in several sites? It is possible to extent the classical methodology to the multiple sites problem considering also ground-motion correlation. We study multiple-location PSHA, as compared with the classical point wise PSHA, using Monte Carlo simulation. Specific items are:(1) Development of the algorithms for multiple-location PSHA;(2) Analysis of the role of the geometry of multiple sites, correlation of ground motion, and evel of seimicity for multiple-location PSHA;(3) Study of correspondence and differences between multiple-location PSHA and classical point wise PSHA and analysis of possibility of utilization of classical PSHA procedures for simplified multiple-location hazard assessment.The project is innovative because only few attempts have been made so far regarding our research questions.
Auswertung der Abfallbilanzen der öffentlich-rechtlichen Entsorgungsträger und der Betreiberberichte der Abfallentsorgungsanlagen des Landes M-V (z.B. Darstellung der getrennt erfassten Abfälle zur Verwertung, des Aufkommens an Restabfällen aus privaten Haushaltungen sowie der Zusammensetzung der Abfälle).
Die Kompostierung der organischen Haushaltsabfaelle erfolgt auf speziell dafuer eingerichteten Plaetzen. Waehrend des Kompostierungsvorganges werden regelmaessige Messungen von Temperatur und pH-Wert vorgenommen. Das Kompostierungsprodukt wird chemischen Analysen unterzogen, wobei die quantitative Bestimmung von Schadstoffen und von verschiedenen Naehrstoffen wie Stickstoff, Kohlenstoff u.a. im Vordergrund steht. Als Ziel wird die zukuenftige sinnvolle Verwertung der organischen Abfaelle aus den Haushalten in Gartenbau und Landwirtschaft angestrebt.
Background: An increasing frequency of massive flooding along the lower Yangtse River in China ended in a disastrous catastrophe in summer 1998 leaving several thousand people homeless, more than 3.600 dead and causing enormous economic damage. Inappropriate land-use techniques and large scale timber felling in the water catchment of the upper Yangtse and its feeder streams were stated to be the main causes. Immediate timber cutting bans were imposed and investigations on land use patterns were initiated by the Chinese Government. The Institute for World Forestry of the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products was approached by the Yunnan Academy of Forestry in Kunming to exchange experiences and to cooperate scientifically in the design and application of appropriate afforestation and silvicultural management techniques in the water catchment area of the Yangtse. This cooperation was initiated in 1999 and is based on formal agreements in the fields of agrarian research between the German and Chinese Governments. Objectives: The cooperation was in the first step focussing on the identification of factors which caused the enormous floodings. After their identification measures of prevention were determined and put into practice. In this context experiences made in past centuries in the alpine region of central Europe served as an incentive and example for similar environmental problems and solutions under comparable conditions. Relevant key questions of the cooperation project were: - Analysis of forest related factors influencing the recent floodings of the Yangtse, - Analysis and evaluation of silvicultural management experiences from central Europe for know-how transfer, - Evaluation of rehabilitation measures for successful application in Yunnan, - Dissemination of knowledge through vocational training. Results: - Frequent wild grazing of husbandry is a key factor for forest degeneration beyond unsustainable timber harvests, forest fires and insect calamities leading to increased water run-off in the mountainous region of Yunnan; - Browsing of cattle interrupts succession thus avoiding natural regeneration and leaving a logging ban ineffective; - Mountain pasture in the Alps had similar effects in the past in central Europe. The introduction of controlled grazing has led to an ecologically compatible coexistence of pasture and ecology. Close-to-nature forestry can have positive effects in this sensitive environment. - Afforestation with site adopted broadleaves and coniferous tree species was implemented on demonstration level using advanced techniques in Yunnan.
Ziel dieses Forschungsvorhabens ist es, den in Gebietskoerperschaften anfallenden Gewerbeabfall im Hinblick auf seine stofflichen und thermischen Verwertungspotentiale zu untersuchen. Hierzu werden umfangreiche Studien in verschiedenen Bundeslaendern durchgefuehrt.
Mofetten sind natürliche Gasaustritte, an denen CO2 entlang von Störungszonen aus dem Erdmantel aufsteigt und stellen als solche natürliche Fenster zu magmatischen/vulkanischen Prozessen in der Tiefe dar. Ziel der vorgeschlagenen Untersuchungen an Mofetten ist der physikalische Zusammenhang zwischen Fluideigenschaften, ihrer Migrationspfade und Erdbeben. Der Einsatz modernste Fluidmesstechnik stellt einen komplett neuen Ansatz dar im Vergleich zur Strategie diskreter Probennahmen während der letzten Jahrzehnte. Zusammensetzung und isotopische Signatur der Gase werden kontinuierlich in-situ in verschiedenen Tiefen analysiert. Weltweit einmalig, lassen sich so die aufsteigenden Mantelfluide entlang eines vertikalen Geradienten aus einer Tiefe von mehreren Hundert Metern bis an die Erdoberfläche verfolgen. Dies kann Hinweise auf die Ursache zeitlicher Veränderungen geben, die in Zusammenhang mit der Öffnung von fault-valves, der Zumischung krustaler Fluide zu einer stetigen Mantelentgasung, oder einer möglichen Freisetzung von Wasserstoff bei Bruchvorgängen stehen. Als Untersuchungsobjekt wurde die Hartousov Mofette ausgewählt. Detaillierte Messungen vor, während und nach der Bohrung eines 300 m tiefen Bohrlochs geben Aufschluss über einen möglichen Einfluss der Bohrtätigkeiten auf das lokale und regionale Fluidregime. Periodisch werden Proben zur Edelgasanalytik und detaillierten Isotopenanalyse entnommen. Die Arbeiten stehen in direktem Zusammenhang mit der für 2019 geplanten Fluidbohrung im Rahmen ICDP Projektes 'Drilling the Eger Rift: Magmatic fluids driving the earthquake swarms and the deep biosphere'.
In the last decades agricultural policy has gained increasingly in complexity. Nowadays it influences the food and agricultural sector from the global market down to the farm level. Widespread research questions, like the impact of the WTO negotiations on the farm structure, most often require comprehensive modeling frameworks. Thus, different types of models are utilized according to their comparative advantages and combined in a strategically useful way to more accurately represent micro and macro aspects of the food and agricultural sector. Consequently, in recent years we have seen an increase in the development and application of model linkages. Given this background, the overall objective of this subproject is a systematic sensitivity analysis of model linkages that gradually involves more and more characteristics of the linkage and the corresponding transfer of results between models. In addition, the project aims to answer the following specific question: How does structural change at the farm level influence aggregate supply and technical progress? Under which conditions is it possible to derive macro-relationships from micro-relationships? How does the aggregation level influence the model results and how can possible problems be overcome? This procedure is used to quantify the effects and to derive conditions for optimal interaction of the connected models. The analysis is based on the general equilibrium model GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) and the farm group model FARMIS (Farm Modelling Information System) which are employed in conjunction to analyze the effects of WTO negotiations on the farm level.
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