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NOEO 3.0 used by authorities in the Bavarian Forest National Park
The Bavarian Forest National Park and T-Mobile integrated NOEO Web Content Management for an environmental research project.
On an interactive website, visitors can observe the movements of the lynx virtually live on a map.
For more than 100 years, the lynx was completely lost from Bavaria. It only returned to the wild in the 1980s. What effects has its return on its prey, the deer and elk? The national park management in the Bavarian Forest is investigating this in a very unusual way. The lynx can send SMS messages. "We equip the lynx with a collar so that we can remain on its trail. This is a real high-tech product which means the lynx can always send us an SMS whenever he is in the transmission range of a mobile mast and tell us where he is!” says Karl Friedrich Sinner, head of the national park management.
This means you can observe the lynx virtually live without having to disturb his natural environment, says Dr. Markus Jodl, spokesman for T-Mobile in Bavaria. The mobile provider is financing some of the project.
The technology in the background
The SMS messages, which the lynx and other animals send from the wild, are processed using scientific telemetry software and transmitted into the Web Content Management System NOEO 3.0 using a simple interface. This means visitors to the website www.luchs-erleben.de can observe the lynx in exactly the same way as the researchers in the national park can.
After just a few weeks, decisive knowledge had been obtained, says Dr. Marko Heurich, "What we did not know previously but have now found out through the new technology is that lynxes patrol huge areas of over 30,000 hectares. This is something which our observed lynxes have told us. 30,000 hectares is the surface of 30,000 soccer fields - and they also wander for huge distances in the night of about 20-30 kilometres so that the density and the number of lynxes which exist in the area is actually lower than we had previously believed!”
You have the chance to observe the lynx in a virtually live setting on an interactive map at www.luchs-erleben.de 17.10.2006, Michael Praetorius
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