Monitoring of damages caused by wild boar in agricultural and environmental areas

The Wild Boar Project aims at providing a monitoring of damages to agricultural and environmental areas caused by wild boar using remote sensing data. The technical key idea is to upscale from the investigation of local areas via high resolution aerial images to larger areas via satellite data. The service can provide large scale objective data which might be used as a common ground for discussions between opposing parties regarding questions of accountability for considerable economic damages, for the development of a suitable wildlife management or effective hunting regimen, to protect animals put at risk by wild boar, and potentially as a supportive measure in the prevention of economically disastrous outbreaks of epidemics in livestock. The service targets farmers, traffic authorities and insurance companies, hunters, and nature conservationists.