Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual methods. Researchers have developed an ...

A new report provides the most comprehensive picture of deforestation's toll on critical climate change safeguard; reveals hard-to-measure forest degradation is responsible for nearly 70 percent of ...

BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 14, 2001 – Recent advances in electronic and computing technologies have greatly impacted how forest resources are assessed. The fifth edition of Forest Measurements, by ...

A tangle of treetops and branches, through which just the occasional clear area provides glimpses of the trunks and roots growing below. Whether it is woodland with German spruces or a tropical ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers with the Woods Hole Research Center and the Center for Global Development write in a new paper that capabilities are in place to track ...

Do you know what trees are in your forest? If you know what trees you have, do you know how big they are? If you answered no to either of these questions, then you might consider attending the Forest ...

Consultation has opened on a proposed new approach for owners of post-1989 forest to more accurately assess the carbon absorbed by their trees. Under proposed regulations open for consultation today, ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the first time ever, small forest owners can now access the same carbon market as timber companies to sell carbon credits from their forests through ecoPartners’ ...

For much of the past 100 years, forest measurement techniques changed very little, and to take accurate measurements from a sufficient number of sample plots is inevitably labour intensive. Typically ...