Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111, Birmensdorf, ZH, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), with around 600 employees, is part of the ETH Domain. It focuses on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the responsible management of natural hazards.
The Forest Resources and Forest Management research unit records and analyzes changes in the landscape and forest. In the Forest-LENS project, we are investigating drought symptoms in beech stands. This is based on an existing Sentinel-2 and machine learning-based processing pipeline for recording such symptoms, which is being expanded spatially and methodologically. A particular focus is on the influence of forest structure on the drought resilience of beech trees. To this end, we combine satellite-based drought indicators with forest structure information derived from LiDAR data, as well as other environmental and site data. The position is...
