For the past several months, a twin-engine plane has slowly soared over Redwood National Park in search of the world's tallest trees. Five government agencies and conservation groups have pitched in ...

A new study published in Big Earth Data introduces the Cloud-Aware Mixture-of-Experts Linear Transformer U-Net ...

Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang has received a two-year, $870,000 grant from the World Resources Institute to map global forest carbon accumulation rates. “To accurately capture the carbon ...

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 ...

Over the last 10 years a new method using satellite radar data has been maturing to provide 3D views of Earth’s natural resources and urban environments. Scientists from around the world gathered ...

A prototype service utilising satellites for mapping forests to aid compliance with the Kyoto Protocol has been endorsed by end users from European countries – one environmental ministry ...

Across both peninsulas ORVs have access to 11,841 miles of Michigan’s forest roads and trails. The majority, 98%, are in the ...

Inspiration often strikes in unusual places. For Amber Bieg, a volunteer with Friends of the Urban Forest, a nonprofit that promotes the greening of San Francisco, it hit as she was planting street ...

If a tree falls in the forest, will another replace it? Of the roughly 3 million square kilometers of forest lost worldwide from 2001 to 2015, a new analysis suggests that 27 percent of that loss was ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( To the cartographers of the modern conservation world, the forests of northeastern Gabon can appear almost empty. Satellite images show a deep green canopy stretching across ...