Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung
In MonViA, the Julius Kühn-Institute develops in close co-operation with the Thünen-Institute and the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food a broad-based farmland biodiversity monitoring for Germany. The joint project consists of three main parts: a) a general, national wide trend monitoring based on a systematic sampling grid, b) an in-depth, question-based monitoring on specific issues focusing on insects and c) a Citizen-Science monitoring, based on the participation of farmers, associations and interested citizens. The as long-term designed project involves 6 specialist institutes from the TI, 8 from the JKI and the BLE with a total of more than 35 persons. In the sub-project "Monitoring the Diversity of Habitats - Remote Sensing," methods are being developed and provided in collaboration with the Thünen Institute of Farm Economics to derive indicators for quantifying landscape patterns and structures and describing land use diversity and management intensity from remote sensing data from the European Earth observation program Copernicus (primarily Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2). The indicators are intended to record the status of land use and landscape features across Germany and, at the same time, highlight trends and changes through periodic observation.
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity
