Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and multispectral photography. While radar and LiDAR penetrate canopies to reveal ...

Drones are part of an increasingly sophisticated arsenal used by scientists to understand forests and their role in the battle against climate change – Copyright ...

Wildland firefighters are used to dealing with a variety of complications. Wind. Humidity. Animals. Occasionally, the public. Now there’s a new threat courtesy of the public, and the U.S. Forest ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, equipped with advanced sensors like high-resolution RGB cameras or Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), are changing the game. Drones can fly over extensive ...

Seasonal phenological rhythms — leaf unfolding and falling — regulate the carbon, water and energy cycles of forests, and affect the stability of forest ecosystem structure and function. Monitoring ...

Soar over Tongass National Forest, USA, the largest national forest in the United States and a crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest's temperate rainforests. The drone captures the emerald expanse of ...