Invasive insects, fungi, or other pathogens can sweep through entire regions with deadly effect, devastating forests and causing ripple effects throughout the ecosystem. It happened here in ...

Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...

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Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Deforestation globally increased by 4% in 2022 over 2021, with over 6.6m hectares of forest lost AI enables prediction of ...

The integration of traditional forest inventory techniques with advanced remote sensing technologies has revolutionised the estimation of biomass in forest ecosystems. This interdisciplinary approach ...

The Remote Sensing for Natural Resources certificate focuses on using satellite and aerial imagery to monitor, measure, and model natural systems. Learn how to interpret remote sensing data to support ...

Primary forests, or old-growth forests as they are sometimes called, are epicenters of rich biodiversity, are more resilient ...

While using large swaths of coarse satellite data can be an effective tool for evaluating forests on a national scale, the resolution of that data is not always well suited to indicate whether or not ...

Dr. Jonathan Greenberg runs the University’s Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing lab using LiDAR technology to transform the understanding of forest ground coverage. Gigafire, a fire that ...

Researchers are working to improve remote sensing technology's ability to detect subtle changes in real-time across the landscape, namely to diagnose insect infestations in forests before irreparable ...