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Durable Environmental Multidisciplinary Monitoring Information Network (DEMMIN)

The DEMMIN calibration and validation facility is the fruit of close cooperation since 1999/2000 between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Neustrelitz and the Demmin Network (IG Demmin). Both partners are attempting to develop in DEMMIN the preconditions for using remote sensing for science applications in the environmental and agricultural sectors.

The test site is located some 220 km north of Berlin near the city of Demmin in Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania. This area is intensively used for agriculture and extends from 54°2′54.29″ north, 12°52′17.98″ east to 53°45′40.42″ north, 13°27′49.45″ east.

The area cultivated by IG-Demmin (ca. 30,000 ha) is well suited to remote sensing science applications since the site is heterogeneous with respect to landscape, soil cover and hydrology and the average size of the fields, ca. 80 ha, is very high for Germany.

The main crops cultivated are winter wheat, barley, and rye, which cover almost 60% of the fields. The area devoted to sweet corn, sugar beets and potatoes amounts to about 13%.

Historical development of the DEMMIN calibration and validation facility

1999/2000 Cooperation begins between the Demmin Network and the German Aerospace Center in Neustrelitz
2003 HyEurope2003 (The DEMMIN Long-Term Test Site and Agriculture)
2004 Installation of the Automated Agrometeorological Weather Measurement Network (AAMW) based on technology from the ADCON Telemetry company with support from the EU structural fund LEADER+
2004 HyEurope2004 (The DEMMIN Long-Term Test Site and Agriculture)
2004/2005 Cooperation with the German Weather Service (DWD) Braunschweig
 
2005 HyEurope2005 (The DEMMIN Long-Term Test Site and Agriculture)
2006 Realization of the AgriSAR campaign on behalf of ESA with well over 60 participants from 15 national and international institutions
2008 HyEurope2008 (The DEMMIN Long-Term Test Site and Agriculture)
2008 Expansion of the Weather Measurement Network with support from the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
2008 The DEMMIN calibration and validation facility joins the GeoMV Initiative of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2009 HyEurope2009 (The DEMMIN Long-Term Test Site and Agriculture)
2009 Formal recognition of the DEMMIN calibration and validation facility as part of the USGS Remote Sensing Technologies Project (CEOS and QA4EO – A qualitative Assurance Framework for Earth Observation)
2009 Participation of the DEMMIN calibration and validation facility in the NEREUS Initiative (Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies)
2009 The DEMMIN calibration and validation facility joins the TERENO Initiative (Terrestrial Environmental Observatories) of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
2010 Installation of a lysimeter station with six parallel lysimeters based on Environmental Management System (EMS) technology,expansion of the Weather Measurement Network and installation of an Eddy Covariance Station with support from the Jülich Helmholtz Centre
2011 Expansion of the Automated Agrometeorological Weather Measurement Network with support from the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam (GFZ), a Helmholtz Centre
2015 The DEMMIN test site becomes part of the JECAM-initiative as cooperation partner.
2020
 
Launch of the AgriSens-DEMMIN 4.0-project (lead is GFZ, Daniel Spengler). DEMMIN is one of the test-sites. Participating of the DEMMIN test site in the EXPRESS-project (Lead is the University Leipzig, Ingolf Römer).

 


Contact
Prof. Dr. Erik Borg
German Aerospace Center (DLR)

German Remote Sensing Data Center
, National Ground Segment
Neustrelitz

Tel.: +49 3981 480-183

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