Remote sensing analyses of the Wadden Sea around Sylt
In 2003 large-scale mapping and monitoring of topography and vegetational units on- and offshore (Wadden Sea) Sylt will commence using AWI's polar aircrafts. Aerial photos, RGB- and infrared scanners will be utilized to map relevant items such as positions of dunes, channels, sandbars, seagrass beds, mussel banks.
Polar research aircraft 'Polar 2' of Alfred Wegener Institute.
Goals of the investigations include
- Monitoring and mapping of morphodynamics in the Wadden Sea, in particular changes that occur after storm events.
- Monitoring and mapping of vegetation dynamics
- Monitoring of dynamicaally changing coastlines
- Providing georeferenced data for GIS applications.
Aerial photo of Sylt (taken by K. Reise). Yellow box marks the area of remote-sensing activities. Yellow box shows the 'Koenigshafen' which forms the area of special airborne investigations (view direction from north to south).
Aerial photos from 1936 annd 1989 showing differences in channel positions and vegetation units such as seagrass (black shadows inside the Koenigshafen).
