If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Maybe not, but we can certainly see it! A recent publication by Christan Thiel, from the German Aerospace Center (DLR),…
We recently conducted a Trimble eCognition webinar called Timber Cruising with eCognition where I explored the use of remote sensing data to automatically extract valuable information on the individual tree level. A combination of LiDAR and imagery data…
A Russian proverb states that “it takes all kinds of trees to make a forest”, but what kind of trees are in our forests? I am frequently asked whether it is possible to identify individual tree species with eCognition and often times…
In the latter half of 2015, fires raged once again across Indonesia, creating a state of emergency due to poisonous smoke and haze across Southeast Asia as well as incurring great financial costs to the government. Within the ESA Fire CCI Project the Remote…
Forests throughout the world are under tremendous anthropogenic pressure as they are continually threatened by forest fire, over harvesting, disease and increases in human population.
A project launched by Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MoAC) was the focus of an article in…
In November 2016, we presented COWI’s use of the Trimble eCognition software for forest monitoring. For those of you interested in learning more about this use case an additional article was published in INFORMED INFRASTRUCTURE entitled “One Forest, Multiple Perspectives”.
This article goes into…
In the age of climate change, natural resource management in cities is an increasingly difficult task as city managers and planners have to to consider the health and longevity of their city’s green infrastructure.
The 2016-3 issue of Trimble’s technology & more included an interesting…
The first issue of this year’s eCognition News brings us back to the forests of Scandinavia. This time we are reviewing the use of eCognition for forest health monitoring.
The study, entitled “Satellite Imagery Vital to Proactive Forestry Management”, was carried out by TerraNor,…