Essays about: "pre com-mercial thinning"

Found 1 essay containing the words pre com-mercial thinning.

  1. 1. Evaluated density estimates of young forest stands using high resolution 2D imagery from UAV

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Resource Management

    Author : Victor Kingstad; [2020]
    Keywords : UAV; forestry; inventory; survey; cleaning; tending; PCT; pre com-mercial thinning;

    Abstract : After more than three decades of advanced technology and methods to evaluate young forest attributes, the forestry still prefers laborious field surveys in regenera-tion forests. Preceding studies have virtually all successfully identified the saplings, but the cost has outweighed the benefits or at least not yet convinced the companies to step away from the traditional field surveys; high-resolution photogrammetric point clouds and ALS-data can provide accurate estimations of the biophysical prop-erties but requires intense data processing. READ MORE