forest planning News
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An inside look at Latin America’s Illegal Logging – Part Two
This post was co-authored with Eduardo Arenas Hernández Jr. and Ana Domínguez, who work for Reforestamos Mexico. This is the second post in a two-part series on illegal logging in Latin America, with key insights coming from the Forest Legality Alliance’s recent event, “Legal Forest Products and International Trade: A Regional Perspective.” The first installment ...
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Black Forest Giants captured in 3D
Terrestrial Laser Scanning opens new perspectives into the forest ecosystem, no matter if you want to use it to precisely locate and measure landscape objects or if you want to present the Genius Loci of a Plenterwald with audio-visual effects as demonstrated in this example. http://youtu.be/RhV_T6zYxhk The video clip has been generated from Terrestrial Laser Scanning data of some 150 - 200 ...
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FAO sets standards to improve national forest monitoring systems
FAO has launched free software tools that it hopes will improve the way many developing nations monitor the state of their forests to tackle deforestation and climate change. The tools are designed to assist countries through the entire lifecycle of a forest inventory - from assessment, design and field data collection to analysis and reporting. The governments of Finland and Germany have ...
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Terrestrial Laser Scanning to measure forest parameters
In November landConsult completed the second service contract with a national forest adminisitration in eastern Germany. Using a FARO Focus 3D Scanner and a Stonex GNSS more than 5 heactares with thousands of broadleaf trees and conifers have been scanned. All scanned forests are part of a permanent monitoring system to research tree quality and ecological parameters. The 3D modells are stored ...
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