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The
Research Unit assesses and analyzes short and long-term changes in the
land resources of the built, the cultivated and the natural landscape.
It specializes in developing and engineering early detection systems,
cutting-edge spatial analysis methods (e.g. spatial uncertainty, fuzzy
sets in space and time, geo-statistics) and large-area and
non-continuous inventories. The Unit develops and applies new methods
in space-time database design and management, sampling design,
time-series analysis and data mining concepts. A well-established range
of spatially explicit models recently developed at WSL aims to identify
the causes of observed patterns and processes. The Unit thus
contributes to growing efforts worldwide in assessing land resources
more precisely on various scales. The partner and stakeholders are
other researchers both within and outside WSL, land owners and
managers, and federal and local agencies.
