Tree Canopy Articles & Analysis: Older
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A new service offered by Katam Technologies utilises autonomous drones to complement manual measurements of tree trunk diameter. With this new solution, forest owners and field personnel can avoid entering inaccessible, hilly, thorny, and even dangerous forests, such as tropical environments that are home to spiders and snakes. Traditionally, drones are used in forestry by ...
Xishuangbanna is mostly mountainous terrain, and most of the fruit trees are planted on the hillside, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of drone operations. ...
Some plant protection machines can only imitate tree canopies, but cannot accurately imitate terrain and autonomous obstacle avoidance. ...
University of Florida researchers are turning to the old-fashioned method of steaming to help treat citrus greening, a disease devastating citrus trees throughout Florida. Reza Ehsani and his UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences colleagues are tenting and then enveloping trees in steam that is 136 degrees Fahrenheit for about 30 seconds in an attempt to kill the citrus greening ...
” Other tips he offers producers: A bale stored under a tree canopy isn’t a good idea because it offers only minimal protection from rain and is slow to dry. ...
Most infected trees die within a few years. The disease has affected millions of citrus trees in North America. ...
Careful choice of tree species and sites could transform plantations into refuges for woodland plant diversity, new research from Ireland suggests. Plantations of native species on or near historic woodland and those with adequate light levels below the tree canopy were found to support more plant species. Europe’s forests cover 45% of the ...
Why 'Plant A Tree' program? Trees and forests are a crucial part of the Earth’s ecosystem. ...
Many people say their favorite place to read a book is under the cool shade of a tree canopy, whether it's on their backyard patio, at the park or near a beach. ...
PELLA, Iowa — Vermeer Corporation has introduced the WC2300 whole-tree chipper designed specifically to produce chips for the growing biomass industry. ...
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Why plant a tree program? Trees and forests are a crucial part of the Earth's ecosystem. ...
Forest Service colleagues Kenneth Clark and Nicholas Skowronski to calibrate the Canopy Conductance Constrained Carbon Assimilation (4C-A) model, a computer program that generates carbon balance estimates for tree canopies. ...
In addition, forests are highly complex in structure and the large trees and dense canopy greatly complicate the generation of biomass maps from satellite images. ...