Accurate vehicle localization in forest environments is still an unresolved problem. Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) have well known limitations in dense forest, and have to be combined with for instance laser based SLAM algorithms to provide satisfying accuracy. Such algorithms typically require accurate detection of trees, and estimation of tree center locations in laser data. Both...

Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Knoxville, TN, USA, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV, USA, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC, USA, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Research Triangle Pa...

1) Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 14, SK-845 23 Bratislava, Slovakia (*corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]) 2) Department of Phytology, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University of Zvolen, Masarykova 24, SK-960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia 3) Department of Natural Environment, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University of Zvolen, Masarykova 24, SK-960...

*International Tree Conservation and Domestication Program (CAMCORE), Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Box 8008, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, U.S.A.; yDepartment of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Forest Science Laboratory, 3401 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, U.S.A.; and zUSDA Forest Service, National Fo...

1 College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, 159 6 Longpan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 210037. 7 2 Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New 8 Brunswick, 28 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3. 9 * Corresponding author: [email protected] 10 Received: July 08, 2017 11 Accepted: March 02, 2018 12 Posted online: March 06...

• Reliable soil moisture maps are needed when planning machine operating trails. High resolution LiDAR-based DEMs improve performance of DTW maps. DEM 1–2 m is sufficient for extraction forestry operation application. and accurate to minimise the risk disturbance during logging operations. Depth-to-water (DTW) extracted from digital elevation models have shown potential identifying water flow p...

Over-harvesting of forestry resource, primarily trees, through illegal logging has been exceptionally regular for decades. In the context of this worldwide issue, a mathematical model considering the joined impact of legal and illegal logging of trees from forestry biomass using delay-driven ordinary differential equations is proposed. For the set of equations, we have taken immature, mature fo...

A raging inferno consumed more than 160,000 acres of national forest north of Los Angeles earlier this month, causing extensive property damage and killing two firefighters before it was eventually snuffed. Fighting these so-called megafires that burn on public lands is the purview of the National Forest Service, and on August 14 th , Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture,...

in response to global concerns about the social, environmental and economic consequences of forest loss and degradation. CIFOR research produces knowledge and methods needed to improve the well-being of forest-dependent people and to help tropical countries manage their forests wisely for sustained benefits. This research is done in more than two dozen countries, in partnership with numerous pa...