Trees shape climate, biodiversity, rural livelihoods, and the global bioeconomy, yet many remain invisible to today’s large-scale monitoring systems. Most satellite products describe forests as broad ...

Tree cores pulled from some of the planet’s oldest trees have helped extend records of past weather.

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

A paper provides significant insights into China's tree population: by 2020, the average tree density in China was approximately 689 trees per hectare, bringing the total number of trees in the ...

This four-part Mongabay mini-series examines the latest technological solutions to help tree-planting projects achieve scale and long-term efficiency. Using these innovative approaches could be vital ...

Understand the principles of efficient algorithms for dealing with large scale data sets and be able to select appropriate algorithms for specific problems. Understand and be able to apply the main ...