Introduction Community Based Forestry (CBF) implies commitment to the long term ecological, economic and social well being of forest dependent communities. CBF, or community scale sustainable forestry, constitutes a departure from industrial forestry due to this commitment to the preservation of the ecological integrity of the forest ecosystem in perpetuity and to the maintenance or improvement...

Multichannel remote sensing (RS) has gained popularity and has been successfully applied for solving numerous practical tasks as forestry, agriculture, hydrology, meteorology, ecology, urban area and pollution control, etc. (Chang, 2007). Using the term “multichannel”, we mean a wide set of imaging approaches and RS systems (complexes) including multifrequency and dual/multi polarization radar ...

A unique urban tree species identification project for the Mississippi State University campus was undertaken in the Spring of 2002. A collaborative effort between the MSU Forestry Department, Landscape Architecture Department and the U.S. Forest Service was initiated in an attempt to automate tree species identification from high-resolution multi-spectral imagery. Traditional image processing ...

Commercial forestry is an important industry in South Africa, generating considerable employment and foreign exchange. The industry has grown rapidly after the World War II with active government support. However, since the beginning of the transition to democracy in 1991, there have been increasingly vociferous attacks on the industry regarding its urban and big business bias and its role in d...

Remote sensing and Geographic Information System play a pivotal role in environmental mapping, mineral exploration, agriculture, forestry, geology, water, ocean, infrastructure planning and management, disaster mitigation and management etc. Remote Sensing and GIS has grown as a major tool for collecting information on almost every aspect on the earth for last few decades. In the recent years, ...

In the frame of a European research project on air quality in urban agglomerations, data on ozone concentrations from 23 automated urban and suburban monitoring stations in 11 cities from seven countries were analysed and evaluated. Daily and summer mean and maximum concentrations were computed based on hourly mean values, and cumulative ozone exposure indices (Accumulated exposure Over a Thres...

Abstract This study details the results of a survey firms that was conducted to establish baseline for further understanding value arboriculture/commercial urban forestry (ACUF) sector New England Economy, during February and March 2022. The greatest percentage responses came from Massachusetts (45 percent) followed by Connecticut (about 15 Maine 9 percent). Respondents Hampshire, Rhode Island ...