Satellite records reveal three decades of forest growth in southern China, showing how planting, harvesting, and age influence canopy height.
Forests are central to climate mitigation, yet tracking how fast they grow over decades remains difficult. A new satellite-based approach ...
Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...
The distribution of canopy heights in tropical rain forests directly affects carbon storage and the maintenance of biodiversity. We report results from a unique 20-yr record of annual monitoring of ...
Scientists are harnessing technology more commonly used in industrial settings to create high-quality “digital twins” of tropical rainforests by scanning above and below the forest canopy. The ...
Hamdi Zurqani, assistant professor for the College of Forestry, Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello and researcher with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment ...
Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and multispectral photography. While radar and LiDAR penetrate canopies to reveal ...
A new analysis finds global forest maps overlap far less than expected, raising questions about climate funding and ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Through integration of aerial and ground-based mobile mapping sensors and systems, a team of Purdue digital forestry researchers has used advanced technology to locate, count ...
Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...