From 2. to 4. July 2008 the AGIT (trade fair and symposium for applied geoinformatics takes place at the University of Salzburg. In the context of the symposium (NAT) Dr. Jörg Petersen and Otto Dassau present a scientific lecture in german language with the title: "Applied vegetation mapping of large-scale areas based on high resolution aerial imagery - a combined method of remote sensing, GIS and almost exhaustive field verification".

Summary of the lecture:

nature-consult has developed and established a method, that combines classical exhaustive vegetation mapping with modern methods of multi-spectral image interpretation. On basis of an intensive project planning the specific knowledge of the disciplines botany, GIS and remote sensing is combined and provide maps in a very high quality, geometric accuracy and coincident efficiency.

The scientific lecture introduces the developed method and important notes for the implementation in similar vegetation mapping projects are given. Additionally the method is documented on the basis of three reference projects for the Waddensea National Park Administration of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein and for the German Federal Institution for Hydrology (BfG). Within these projects different high resolution camera systems - matrix cameras (UltraCam-D, DMC) and line scanner (HRSC-AX) - were used.

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