Ready for Take-Off!? - Integration der drohnengestützten Fernerkundung in das Monitoring von Offenland-FHH-Lebensraumtypen

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Protected areas play a crucial role in providing vital ecosystem services and protecting endangered habitats and species. Understanding the condition of these protected areas is essential for their long-term conservation, especially in light of the current climate and biodiversity crises. As part of the European Natura2000 network, the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatschG) and the Habitats Directive require regular assessments and, where necessary, management decisions for many habitat types. Open-land habitat types in particular, such as heaths, peatlands, and grasslands are currently at risk in terms of their conservation status and often require ongoing management to counteract typical succession processes such as scrub encroachment. With over 3,500 Natura2000 sites featuring open-land habitat types in Germany, monitoring these areas requires a significant workload. New methods for more efficient and precise monitoring are urgently needed. In our project Ready for Take-Off!? – Integration of UAS remote sensing in the monitoring of EU habitat directive sites, we are evaluating drone-based remote sensing methods to determine their utility for practical nature conservation. The goal is to extent the existing catalog of methods for habitat type assessment (which is primarily based on field mapping) with evaluation methods based on drone imagery.