Institut für Waldschutz
The ANK-SURVEY project aims to demonstrate and test a supra-regional forest real-world laboratory, the synthesis of geodata and the bundling of proposals for research in the forest and timber sector. The elements of a forest realm laboratory include a network of spatially distributed experimental areas of varying intensity of use and investigation, their digital images (digital twins) and integrated practical trials in the sense of a research-practice network. With the help of remote sensing data, modelling and additional forestry-relevant geodata, a synthesis and regionalization takes place in the context of a spruce-dominated, heavily damage-exposed low mountain range and adjacent regions with high transformation demands. A comprehensive inclusion of central groups of actors in the forest (stakeholders) integrates social, ecological and economic demands both with regard to the development of the forest laboratory (co-creation), joint research (co-production) and the assessment of the resulting ecosystem services (co-evaluation) in the sense of a real laboratory approach to transformation research. As part of a synthesis of the results obtained, concept and implementation recommendations for bundling activities with ongoing forest and wood research in the sense of a joint center will be derived.
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
