Bark beetles, like the European Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips typographus), are inherent partsof a forest ecosystem. However, with favorable conditions, they can multiply quickly and infest vastamounts of trees and cause their extinction. Therefore, it is important for forest officials and rangers ofe. g. a national park, to ...

Current consumption patterns in offline and online retailing pose challenges in terms of sustainability aspects such as overcoming the last mile, and product-related and energy-related environmental impacts. In the last decades, customers have changed their mindset from money to sustainability which includes e-Commerce ...

Pig livestock farming has been undergoing major structural change for years. The number of animals per farm is constantly increasing, while competition is becoming more intense due to volatile slaughter prices. Sustainable, welfare-oriented livestock farming becomes increasingly difficult under these conditions. ...

In the last decades the highly active area of environmental legislation has produced a vast amount of text documents that contain laws and regulations enacted by various types of rule setters. This large body of legal text documents is still growing with an increasing speed. In order to assure compliance with the ...

The research project "5G Smart Country" aims at developing ideas for the development and testing of 5G applications for agriculture and forestry under real conditions. Agricultural and forestry data are collected from a wide variety of sources, such as satellites, drones, and robots with special sensors. Artificial ...

Tens of thousands of chemicals used by consumers, agriculture and industry enter the aquatic environment as micropollutants every day. Using targeted analysis we are so far only able to detect a small subset of the chemicals that are present. Therefore so called non-target screening (NTS) using liquid chromatography in ...

The aim of this work is to design a measurement setting that enables the analysis of the resource and energy consumption of material flow oriented corporate environmental information systems (BUIS). For this purpose, the focus is put on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software. LCA software supports LCA mainly in Life ...

Traffic safety is an important factor in the decision process whether people decide to use the bicycle or not. Critical situations that do not lead to an accident are often not reported to the police. To fill this knowledge gap, several regions as the city of Zwolle and the Province of Friesland (Netherlands) have started ...

Due to the high consumption of electrical energy, data center operators are increasingly aiming for a data center that is as energy-optimized and efficient as possible. The cooling system has a crucial role here. In this context, an innovative control strategy with dynamic cooling circuit temperatures will be investigated. ...

In this paper, we present an image recognition method to improve the performance of waste-to-energy plants. Thermal treatment of waste in waste-to-energy plants is central for the treatment of municipal solid waste. The heterogeneous nature of municipal solid waste results in a fluctuating lower calorific value to which ...