The online Global Forest Watch platform provides open access to frequently updated satellite imagery to allow any user to monitor forest change in a given country or other area. Within an interactive ...

A study reveals that global forest datasets based on satellite imagery align on 'forest' locations just 26% of the time. This ...

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 ...

It’s important to have accurate information on an area’s forest extent in order to properly protect forests and evaluate natural resources, conservation practices and environmental policies. But one ...

A forest management tool being created by UC Davis aims to help solve problems such as thinning overly dense forests and tracking tree death among wildfire survivors. Team lead Derek Young captured ...

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 ...

Researchers at Beijing Normal University used advanced machine learning and satellite imagery to map forest management ...

Researchers map out poorly understood dry tropical forests in Southeast Asia; technique may help protect wildlife living within Trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae dominate the forests of Southeast ...