For the past several months, a twin-engine plane has slowly soared over Redwood National Park in search of the world's tallest trees. Five government agencies and conservation groups have pitched in ...

Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang has received a two-year, $870,000 grant from the World Resources Institute to map global forest carbon accumulation rates. “To accurately capture the carbon ...

It's wild fire season in the West, and protecting the region's forests is an urgent priority. LiDAR may soon play an important role. That's because forest mapping is vital for forest management and ...

Over the last 10 years a new method using satellite radar data has been maturing to provide 3D views of Earth’s natural resources and urban environments. Scientists from around the world gathered ...

The agency maintains a database that includes various characteristics of some 19 million trees over some 350,000-plus plots of land The U.S. Forest Inventory and Analysis program is essentially the ...

How best to map ‘boreal’ or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. By answering this question, the campaign addresses one of the ...

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Mangroves are ...

How lightning travels from the sky to the ground inspired the concept behind a new algorithmic approach to digitally separate individual trees from their forests in automatic forest mapping. “When ...