The New Jersey Forest Service has done a number of videos that break down some fairly complex technical issues in forestry called "Pocket Presentations." They are designed to provide a fair amount of detail and promote more nuanced dialog about forest management. The latest in this series is "Why Manage a Forest?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8GAS-nRsw

#forest #forestry #ForestBiometrics #conservation #habitat #NaturalClimateSolutions #ForestManagement

Check out this 3D map of Germany! Very cool video on how to make 3D maps in R using data from ETH Global Sentinel-2 Tree Canopy Height.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ScYWPMzy6E

#forestry #ForestBiometrics #RemoteSensing #forests #R #ggplot2 #rayshader

Initial take by Arbor Analytics on new US national scale and volume estimators published by USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis

https://arbor-analytics.com/post/2024-02-26-preliminary-thoughts-on-using-the-new-national-scale-volume-and-biomass-estimators/

#biometrics #forestbiometrics #forestcarbon #climatechange #forestry #forestmetrics #biometrics #climatechange #forestcarbon #carbon #forest

NCX makes their R package for accessing FIA forest data public; Link is for the article; They have a GitHub repo for the package called tidyFIA

https://ncx.com/learning-hub/sharing-our-code-for-accessing-fia-data/

#forestry #forestdata #data #forestbiometrics #ncx #forestcarbon #opensource

Excited to work on ForMOM today; an open source optimization model for forest carbon storage and sequestration.

https://github.com/New-Jersey-Forest-Service/ForMOM

#forestbiometrics #forestry #foestcarbon #climatechange #Python #Pyomo #linearoptimization #linearprogramming #datascience #forestmodelling #open-source #softwaredevelopment