Articles
Articles and field reports written for forestry publications and membership bodies.
Emerging Drone Technologies to Support Forest Management
A survey of the three technologies in practical use in forestry today — photogrammetry, multispectral imaging and LiDAR — what each one can and cannot tell you, and where automated processing is heading. It closes with a do-it-yourself challenge for readers who want to try the approach on their own ground.
Drone scans provide the picture on the box for forests.Read as published · PDF
Other articles and field reports.
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Confor · February 2023
Aerial imaging and data interpretation
An open letter to the forestry sector, arguing that the industry needs shared guidelines on when a scan is worth commissioning, what format the data should arrive in, and how drone survey can be standardised rather than left to each provider to define.
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Royal Forestry Society · 12 January 2022
Aerial land scanning — pictures worth a million words!
An introduction to aerial land scanning for people meeting it for the first time: how photographs become a measurable three-dimensional model, and the forest mensuration, monitoring and communication work that follows from it.
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Woodland Heritage
Irregular Silviculture in the Lowlands: an attendee review
A review of the Transformation in Practice course — what a well-managed irregular stand actually looks like on the ground, how timber comes out of one, and whether irregular forests hold their commercial footing.
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Continuous Cover Forestry Group · 19 October 2023
CCFG autumn field visit to the Forest of Dean
Douglas fir under several continuous cover systems across 10,500 hectares of ancient forest, with underplanted Corsican pine infected with Dothistroma, and a frank discussion of restocking costs and contractor management.
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Continuous Cover Forestry Group · 7 October 2023
CCFG autumn visit to Coed Fron Drain and Bwlch y Mynydd
A marteloscope training plot in ancient oak and ash, a thinned Scots pine stand on sandstone, Phytophthora in the locale, and a demonstration of variable plot sampling by basal area factor.
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