Site preparation for afforestation

Collective Robotic Site Preparation

Robotic site preparation has been identified as an integral precursor to human landings on Mars. Many species of social insect carry out the site preparation task when they construct their nests. A site preparation algorithm was developed based on the nest construction behavior of a particular species of ant, Leptothorax albipennis. In this paper, we present a new approach to modeling the tempo...

Transport Site Preparation Select Site Land Deploy

Recognizing and Overcoming Difficult Site Conditions for Afforestation of Bottomland Hardwoods

SEPTEMBER 2004 183 In the last decade, about 370,000 acres (150,000 ha) of economically marginal farmland in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV) have been restored to bottomland hardwood forests (Stanturf and others 1998, King and Keeland 1999, Schoenholtz and others 2001). Planting of this considerable acreage is due to several federal programs, such as the Wetlands Reserve Program (W...

Storage System Site Preparation Guide

Afforestation and Reforestation

1. Definitions of terms 2. The particular features of forests among terrestrial ecosystems 3. Ecosystem level effects of afforestation and reforestation 4. Effects on biodiversity 5. Arguments for plantations 6. Political goals of afforestation and reforestation 7. Reforestation problems 8. Afforestation on a global scale 9. Planting techniques 10. Case studies of selected regions and countries...