Get Involved - Here's How!

You would like to support our work? With just a few simple steps, you can make a valuable contribution to our research and help us to study changes in forests. Soon you will be able to use the MeineWaldKI-App on your next walk, and you'll become part of our project: download the app, take a photo - the AI will learn to be able to analyse the data. Every photo you take will contribute to assess the forest condition more precisely and evaluate the data scientifically. Your support is vital to our project's success! Until then, we are collaborating with outdooractive, a hiking platform, to offer a series of exciting challenges that invite you to capture and share your forest photos, starting now even before the launch of the app. The photos submitted during the challenges are used to train our AI-models.

Coming Soon: Start Your Adventure With Our App!

Your photographs are crucial to the project, and getting involved is easy: take pictures in the "Dölauer Heide" or the Biosphere Reserve "Karstlandschaft Südharz" and upload them via our app. The app is easy to use and features a step-by-step guide on how to get started. Additionally, you'll find plenty of useful information on this website. Stay up-to-date by subscribing to our newsletter and social media channels. Don't miss the app's launch and follow us today. Be part of our community from day one! Until then, we are collaborating with outdooractive, a hiking platform, to offer a series of exciting challenges that invite you to capture and share your forest photos, starting now even before the launch of the app.

Mac iOS
Android

Our Model Regions

The project "MeineWaldKI" is for now focused on two unique research areas - the "Dölauer Heide", a recreational urban forest, and the Biosphere Reserve "Karstlandschaft Südharz". This is where our innovative AI-based methods for identifying forest structures and biodiversity are being developed. The basis for this is our own research and the forest images collected by citizens. In these two regions our Forest Working Group is carrying out field assessments of the forest conditions themselves, which will serve as a baseline for evaluating the accuracy of our future AI results. But to train our AI-models, we need a wide range of forest photos. So, we invite you to share your forest photos, regardless of where they were taken. This will help us improve the accuracy of our models.

Dölauer Heide
Biosphere Reserve Karstlandschaft Südharz