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ProForest DSS: A probabilistic decision support system for adaptive forest management under climate change
04.03.2026

ProForest DSS: A probabilistic decision support system for adaptive forest management under climate change

Project Details Project run time: Jan 26 to Dec 29, 2026 Aim: Develop a user-friendly, spatially explicit, and probabilistic Decision Support System (DSS) Budget: CHF 400'000 Background Climate change is reshaping forests across Central Europe. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, recurring storms, and large-scale disturbances such as bark beetle outbreaks are… Read More
News Projects Artificial Intelligence Data Usefulness Environmental Data Forestry Projects
Franziska Hochenegger
Franziska Hochenegger
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
ProForest DSS: A probabilistic decision support system for adaptive forest management under climate change

ProForest DSS: A probabilistic decision support system for adaptive forest management under climate change

News Projects Artificial Intelligence Data Usefulness Environmental Data Forestry Projects
Project Details Project run time: Jan 26 to Dec 29, 2026 Aim: Develop a user-friendly, spatially explicit, and probabilistic Decision Support System (DSS) Budget: CHF 400'000 Background Climate change is reshaping forests across Central Europe. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, recurring storms, and large-scale disturbances such as bark beetle outbreaks are… Read More
Franziska Hochenegger
Franziska Hochenegger
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

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European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

General Interest News Data Harmonisation Data Management Data Usefulness Environmental Data Geodata INSPIRE Interoperability Metadata Open Data Standards Strategy wetransform
Summary As part of the competitiveness and simplification political priority of the EC, the INSPIRE Directive will be “simplified”, with the biggest change being the removal of all requirements related to interoperability of data and network services from the legal text itself. Metadata and scope remain more or less unchanged. Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
The wetransform 2026 Offsite

The wetransform 2026 Offsite

Event General Interest News Culture Events Offsite Staff Strategy Teamwork wetransform
The new year has brought the wetransform offsite to a new location. After many happy years of offsites in Saig, this year’s event took place at the Rhöniversum environmental education centre in Oberelsbach, located right at the heart of the Rhön UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The Rhön UNESCO… Read More
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
SEMIC 2025: European Digital Markets at a Crossroads

SEMIC 2025: European Digital Markets at a Crossroads

Conferences Event Opinion Artificial Intelligence conferences Data Management Data Spaces Data Usefulness Events Interoperability Strategy
SEMIC 2025 was the conference’s largest edition thus far. Over 500 participants came together in Copenhagen, while over 3.500 utilised live streams to follow the conference’s goings-on from 65 different countries. More than 100 speakers, myself included, provided their insights surrounding this year’s theme: “Interoperability for Impact” Digesting… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
From Compliance to Impact: The Participatory Policy Lab Session on “Community and governance of public sector geospatial data within the Green Deal Data Space”

From Compliance to Impact: The Participatory Policy Lab Session on “Community and governance of public sector geospatial data within the Green Deal Data Space”

Event Opinion Artificial Intelligence Data Harmonisation Data Spaces Data Usefulness Environmental Data Events INSPIRE Interoperability Strategy
The night before the workshop, I joked that we would have to save INSPIRE the next day. When the time came, I joined a group of 20 highly distinguished individuals. They represented public authorities and data providers, the European Commission and its services, as well… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz