Alpine Habitat Diversity - HABITALP
Objectives

The aim of the HABITAT project is to create internationally comparable landscape data for alpine protected areas on the basis of colour infrared aerial photographs.

The main concern is thus in the beginning to obtain aerial images in comparable quality and to develop a common interpretation key for the standardized description of land use types in the participating partner areas.

This key is based on an already existing hierarchical code, which will be extended to include the characteristic alpine landscape types of the project partners.

Within the frame of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas modern methods of interpreting aerial photographs and of analysing digital spatial data, which have been successfully applied for many years in Berchtesgaden National Park, will be transferred to ten other regions of the alpine arc.

Building on this, the participating protected areas relate the CIR land use types determined through the aerial photographs to the corresponding NATURA 2000 habitat types (annex I Habitat Directive) and develop common rules for the long term monitoring of the interpreted areas.

A common transnational database containing aerial images and standardized land use data of all project partners will be accessible over a geographic information system. This spatial database becomes the basis for the standardized analysis of landscape structure and diversity in the protected areas.

 

Bundesamt für Naturschutz BFN (published) 1995:
Systematik der Biotoptypen- und Nutzungstypenkartierung (Kartieranleitung). Schriftenreihe für Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz, Bonn, Notebook 45, 153 (p)

Bundesamt für Naturschutz BFN / Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (published) 2002:
Systematik der Biotoptypen- und Nutzungstypenkartierung (Kartieranleitung) / A System for Survey of Biotope and Land Use Types (Survey Guide). Bilingual second publication of LuN 45. Schriftenreihe für Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz, Bonn, Notebook 73, 336 p. Available to order on http://www.landwirtschaftsverlag.com/bfn/

KIAS, U., W. DEMEL & R. SCHÜPFERLING with the collaboration of G. EGGER 2001:
Koordination der Auswertung von Biotoptypen in alpinen Schutzgebieten als Grundlage für Management und Planung. Concluding report of an INTERREG II Project of Berchtesgaden National Park (D) and Hohe Tauern National Park (A) in collaboration with the Swiss National Park, unpublished manuscript, Freising-Weihenstephan, 68 p. and Annex (Part A: Homogenisierung von Luftbildinterpretationen und Codeplänen in den Alpen-Nationalparks), 26 p. and Annex (Part B: Automatische Bildauswertung von Orthophotos aus Hochgebirgslagen).