Einsatz von Fernerkundungsverfahren zum Umweltmonitoring in der Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide

This project deals with so-called change detections and environmental stresses in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide (heath land) and uses remote sensing technology. The Colbitz-Letzlinger heath land, which is located in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt (east Germany), has been subject to several fundamental politically and strategically motivated changes. The area has been used in various ways: as a forest and hunting area, as military exercise area in the Third Reich, as vast exercise area for tanks of the Rote Armee in the former Democratic Republic of Germany and now as an military exercise area for army troops called “Altmark” of the “Bundeswehr” (federal army of Germany). Thus the area mirrors different systems and usages. One of the area’s peculiarities is that the aforesaid military exercise area is located above a very important body of ground water since 1935. The (so-called) remaining contaminated sites resulting from the usage of the area for more than 70 years provides an additional problem to this unique constellation. Situations like that are called “hazardscapes” in the American literature.In the course of the German reunification new social and political guiding principles were favoured, which led to mutually exclusive intentions of how to make use of the area. In this phase of transformation the Bundeswehr (federal army) finally was able to realise its goals and intentions, however, this was not to be achieved without compromises like giving away smaller areas which were in sensitive hydrological conditions. In addition to that the army is legally committed to realising a surface management plan including ecological and other legal parameters. The questions of which changes can be detected using objective remote sensing technology and of how these changes are in accordance with legal guidelines and with other user interests are of special interest.

contact person: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Glaser.
Phone: +49-(0)761-203-3527
Email: ruediger.glaser@geographie.uni-freiburg.de

Start of project: 01.01.1990
End of project: 30.06.2005

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Glaser R
Physische Geographie

SCHREIBERSTRASSE 20
79098 Freiburg i. Br.
Germany

Phone: ++49(0)761 203-3526
Fax: ++49(0)761 203-3596
http://www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de/
Actual Research Report

• Lechner M

Fernerkundung, Altlasten, Colbitz, Hazardscapes, Nutzungsänderung, Flächenmanagement

• Boldt K.-W., Glaser R, Dech S, Corson M, Hartmann O, Ante U: Digitale Verfahren als Instrumente für geoökologisches Monitoring und mediendidaktischen Wissenstransfer in Gesellschaft und Politik - Der militärische Problemraum Truppenübungsplatz Altmark (Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide) GeoÖko, 2003; 24 (1-2): 19-37.
• Carls H.-G., Glaser R, Heck H: Historische Luftbilder 1938-1958 für die Bundesrepublik - Archive, Charakteristika, Nutzungspotentiale und digitale Auswertemöglichkeiten. Photogrammetrie Fernerkundung Geoinformation, 2000; 1: 33-48.
• Carls H.-G., Glaser R, Heck H.-G.: Erschließung des Informationspotentials allierter Luftbildarchive für die Untersuchung von Altlastenverdachtsflächen. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der luftbildgestützten Erfassung und Erstbewertung von Altlastenverdachtsflächen. Dokumentation eines Arbeitsgespräches im Umweltbundesamt am 30.11.1995. Materialiensammlung, 1996.