Natural hazards
Risk assessment of rockfall, landslide and flood hazards, and targeted management of protective forests
Protective forests
Protective forest management and enhancement in accordance with the NaiS (sustainability and results monitoring in protective forests) methodology, risk assessment in protective forests
Mountain silviculture
Mountain silviculture and regeneration ecology, assessment of the impacts of game and climate change
Site evaluation
Assessment of forest sites and habitats in mountains and lowlands – under present conditions and under climate change
Forest engineering
Slope stabilisation, torrent control, soil bioengineering
GIS
Analysis of NaiS target profiles, planning of opening-up, spatial survey of timber mobilisation
Remote sensing
Drone deployment (eBee RTK) for data acquisition – multispectral aerial imaging, digital surface models – e.g. as basis for single-tree detection
