Landscape Modeling

 

This working group develops the framework for the coupling of fundamentally different modelling approaches into an integrate landscape simulation. Initially, the working group will concentrate on a concept for the integration of process-based simulation models for cropland, grassland and forest ecosystems into a single modelling framework, with a special focus on transition zones between these ecosystems and the observed abiotic processes in these transition zones. In addition, remote sensing data is to be used to parameterise, initialise and drive one-dimensional process-based and other types of two- to three-dimensional models at the landscape scale. This includes models for socioeconomic processes.