Landscape Lab in the Mondsee catchment - University of Salzburg - Austria

While LTER site Lake Mondsee itself is an aquatic study subject, as a subcatchment of the Mondee catchment this study area focusses on a smaller scale terrestrial study area. Particularly the 6 km2 sub-catchment in Koppl, located in the west of the Mondsee catchment, is located at the edge of the Alpine / pre-Alpine environment close to the city of Salzburg, Austria. The catchment wth an elevation average of 715 m in a range from 600 to 955 m asl is instrumented with nine measurement stations measuring atmospheric, hydrolocial and pedologcial parameters. The geoscientific Landscape Lab comprises a wireless sensor network, with a main stations at the 'Meindlbauer'. For the wireless data transmission the ZigBee IEEE 802.15.4 ...