The online Global Forest Watch platform provides open access to frequently updated satellite imagery to allow any user to monitor forest change in a given country or other area. Within an interactive ...

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 important to have accurate information on an area’s forest extent in order to properly protect forests and evaluate natural resources, conservation practices and environmental policies. But one ...

Upper: Sectional view of AToMS LiDAR 3D image of the lowland Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo courtesy of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory. Two new research papers show that an advanced laser-based ...

Modeling and mapping fire-vulnerable forest vegetation across millions of acres in California, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are using a variety of new technologies with massive amounts ...

Trees don’t make work easy for the scientists who want to study them and the landscapes they create, since the leaves, fruits and flowers of a forest’s canopy generally stretch far above human reach.

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 ...

To some forest creatures, a tree is a home. To scientists, it’s a beacon. A new way of mapping forests from the air by measuring chemical signatures of the tree canopy is revealing previously ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For many conservation decisions, the most contested question is also the most basic: what belongs on ...