Forestry

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…

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…

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,…