Open-source toolkit: methods for the use of UAVs in rapid forest quality assessment
Open-source toolkit: methods for the use of UAVs in rapid forest quality assessment
During the course of the project “Directing tropical forest management from the sky“, UAVs have exploded in their use but legal restrictions have also proliferated. The work undertaken as part of this project has been at the cutting edge of research and development and produced a number of new methods for the use of UAVs in rapid forest quality assessment. These tools have been shared through GitHub and will continue to developed for release as an open-source R package.
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Directing tropical forest management from the sky
Preventing the conversion of the world’s two billion hectares of degraded tropical forests to agriculture is a top conservation priority. This requires effective land allocations for conservation, restoration and the production of commodities to be made, which are dependent upon high quality forest survey data across extensive areas. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) make possible the…