ForestTECH 2020 | 11-12 Nov 2020, Rotorua, NEW ZEALAND | 18-19 Nov 2020, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
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ForestTECH News Issue 31
Welcome to the latest issue of Foresttech.News. This will be the final issue for 2019. This year we have produced 11 monthly issues and grew the newsletter to over 6,500 direct subscribers and more than 16,000 regular readers. As a reader, we appreciate your support and aim to continue to bring you the latest stories on resource management, data collection and ...
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ForestTECH 2019 – Event Summary
Forestry resource managers, remote sensing GIS and mapping specialists, inventory foresters and key technology suppliers from throughout Australasia were involved in ForestTECH 2019. Over 250 delegates were involved this year ...
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Low cost high precision seedling inventories
SKYLAB in Hamburg, Germany have just presented at this year’s ForestTECH 2019 series. Two practical workshops yesterday finished the series of conferences, exhibitions and workshops that have been run for ...
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News & Technologies Cont.
Drones to plant hundreds of trees in minutes
At the recent ForestTECH 2019 series run for New Zealand and Australian foresters, a US company, DroneSeed, outlined their work with forestry companies using swarms of drones for both planting ...
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CSIRO wins award for using space tech to solve UN land degradation challenge
CSIRO received the inaugural 2019 GEO Sustainable Development Goals Award for Innovation during GEO Week 2019 in Canberra, a global meeting of more than 1100 delegates from government, business, non-profit ...
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Virtual reality engages tech-hungry learners
With the increased need to integrate meaningful and engaging technology and ICT capability tools in schools, teachers are increasingly required to discover and learn new ways to incorporate these tools ...
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New version of the Woodlot Analysis Tool available
The Woodlot Analysis Tool is now available on the Forest Growers Research website. The Woodlot Analysis Tool has a focus on small forest growers in New Zealand, to provide an ...
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DJI drones banned by U.S. Government
The U.S. Department of Interior has announced that it would ground its fleet of DJI drones. The decision, which is the result of congressional pressure, is the latest move in ...
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VR software application for forest inventories
Rapid developments in VR (Virtual Reality) technology make it timely to explore the potential of advanced 3D visualisation to support forest inventory. VR offers the potential for field staff to ...
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ForestTECH News Issue 30
Welcome to the latest issue of Foresttech.News. Those receiving monthly issues of foresttech.news are principally resource managers, remote sensing, GIS and mapping specialists, inventory foresters and technology suppliers involved in the ...
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Deep learning algorithm can identify seedlings
Scion has pioneered a new artificial intelligence (AI) based system that uses low-cost RGB imagery from UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to identify radiata pine seedlings. The algorithm they have created ...
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Technologies for the Future: A Lidar Overview
Point clouds can be captured by an ever-increasing number of means to understand the surrounding reality and detect critical developments. Diverse applications of 3D laser scanning or ‘Lidar’, which is a ...
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New Airbus and DroneDeploy Partnership
While they’re still primarily known as a manned aircraft giant, Airbus has been taking a significant role in unmanned innovation – and now they’re ready to offer a commercial product ...
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When Photogrammetry Meets Lidar: Towards the Airborne Hybrid Era
The airborne market for area-wide 3D data acquisition is experiencing a noticeable trend towards a hybrid mapping concept. In the near future, most airborne data collection will increasingly be performed ...
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Can Drones Compete with Satellite Images? How BVLOS Will Change Global Agriculture
At the recent InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Michael Ritter of SlantRange gave a great presentation – and explained how drones may be able to completely revolutionise global agriculture. Imagine aerial data that can ...
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Mapping experts win award for leadership in crisis
A grassroots community of mapmakers that created an interactive map viewed by over 800,000 people during the Pigeon Valley Fire earlier this year has been honoured for its vision and ...
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Airspace integration trials programme
The NZ Government is establishing an Airspace Integration Trials Programme to support the safe testing and development of advanced unmanned aircraft and accelerate their integration into the aviation system, Research, ...
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InSAR remote sensing for forest inventory
Remote sensing is a great way to learn more about our forests and manage them accordingly. Scion is exploring new methods to capture information, such as SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) ...
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ForestTECH News Issue 29
Welcome to the latest issue of Foresttech.News. We open this issue with a new approach to fighting forest fires. A joint Canadian initiative will see the development and launch of ...
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New satellite will help monitor wildfires from space
Currently, in Canada, wildfires are managed using an approach known as ‘initial attack’, in which fires are detected early and fought quickly and aggressively with the objective of full suppression ...
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Hyperspectral Imaging for Forestry
This article is part of our ForestTECH 2019 featured sponsors From monitoring plant evolution through to using remote sensing to track forest health, the applications for engaging the objectivity of ...
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First Esri Forestry Workshops for NZ
To capitalise on those travelling through to Rotorua to attend the New Zealand leg of the ForestTECH 2019 series this year, two workshops have been set up for ForestTECH 2019 ...
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