Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 6/8/22

Through integration of aerial and ground-based mobile mapping sensors and systems, a team of Purdue digital forestry researchers has used advanced technology to locate, count and measure over a thousand trees in a matter of hours. “The machines are counting and measuring each tree – it is not an estimation using modeling, it is a true forest inventory,” said Songlin Fei, the Dean’s Remote Sensing Chair and professor of forestry and natural resources and leader of Purdue University’s Digital Forestry initiative.

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