Sponsored Research
ImageTree develops creative partnerships to advance state-of-the-art forest inventory and timber land management technologies.
Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources
The Warnell research, led by Dr. Bruce Borders, assesses the reliability
of traditional timber inventory estimating techniques and compares this
with the ImageTree system—ForestSense™ —which combines remote
imaging, unique use of ground measurements, advanced mathematics and
patented software that extracts key inventory data on a statistically
sound, stand by stand basis. The Warnell project will study stem-mapped
pine stand data, focusing on the reliability of inventory precision
estimates and the magnitude of various error sources.
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/
Yale University
ImageTree sponsors research by Dr. Chadwick Oliver and his team at Yale University’s Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry. Our collaborative research and development activities include modeling sustainable economics, correlations of high-resolution imagery with understory attributes and analysis of hyperspatial and hyperspectral imagery.
http://research.yale.edu/gisf/
West Virginia University
ImageTree and WVU research faculty are working together to assess hyperspectral remote sensing and multispectral imagery for purposes of hardwood species identification. ImageTree trains and employs WVU forestry students to conduct forest inventories using ImageTree’s ForestSense platform.
http://www.caf.wvu.edu/
Biometrician Jim Flewelling
ImageTree supports the independent research of biometrician Jim Flewelling on developing accurate probabilistic sampling methods for inventories based on individual tree crowns.
View the abstract or download a copy of his paper that has been submitted to the Society of American Foresters for peer review.