Marquardt: Long-term observatory

April

Since the beginning of April, a new Boron-3-Fluoride (BF3) based probe has been tested in Marquardt. This LAB-C from QUAESTA Instruments LLC is currently the most sensitive probe with a sensitivity 10.4 times higher than the other CRS-1000 (1300 counts per 20 minutes). Because of its characteristics it can also be used for Roving.

January/February

The team of the University of Potsdam was able to use the intensive snowfall this winter and performed  manual snow measurements, ultrasonic height measurements, precipitation measurements, optical measurements with cameras. The thickness of the snow surface was measured with snow pack levels.

August 

The team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig was also on site and carried out a rover campaign. Here a short Video.

July

In July 2020 a soil moisture measurement campaign was carried out after intensive artificial irrigation by sprinkler systems. The TU Berlin team of the Remote Sensing Research Modul was also involved. Here is a short video of the irrigation.

November

During an intensive measuring campaign, about 30 points were sampled with a Split-Tube-Sampler and about 70 soil moisture profiles were measured with an FDR-probe.

From September to November

intensive maintenance work is carried out every week

Exploratory drone flights and hyerspektrale as well as thermal images are completed.

July

Setting up and the CRNS- Probes immediately after the Joint Field Campaign in Fendt.  There are now 12 CRNS-Probes of different types installed on this site.