1: Use of drone RGB imagery to quantify indicator variables of tropical-forest-ecosystem degradation and restoration  

ABSTRACT: Recognizing initial degradation levels is essential to planning effective measures to restore tropical forest ecosystems. However, measuring indicators of forest degradation is...

2: Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery to Monitor Progress of Early Forest Ecosystem Restoration in an Opencast Mine

ABSTRACT: Monitoring forest restoration is essential for improving and advancing restoration techniques, but human-based monitoring is costly as it requires intensive labour in the field. Although...

3: UAV-derived forest degradation assessments for planning and monitoring forest ecosystem restoration: towards a forest degradation index

ABSTRACT: Global initiatives such as the Bonn Challenge and the New York Declaration on Forests have prompted large-scale forest restoration projects to combat land degradation, preserve...

4: Diversity for Restoration (D4R): Guiding the selection of tree species and seed sources for climate-resilient restoration of tropical forest landscapes

ABSTRACT: 1. At the start of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), the restoration of degraded ecosystems is more than ever a global priority. Tree planting will make up a large...

5: A trait-based approach for selecting tree species for aerial seeding

ABSTRACT: We review recent ecological research on functional traits that can aid selection of tree species for restoration by aerial seeding. A major barrier in selecting species for restoration...

6: Forest restoration: concepts and the potential for its automation

ABSTRACT: In 2014, the UN New York Climate Summit set a goal to restore forest to 350 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, to counter climate change. Conventional tree-planting with human...

7: Drone‐based photogrammetry‐derived crown metrics for predicting tree and oil palm water use

ABSTRACT: Transpiration at the stand level is often estimated from water use measurements on a limited number of plants and then scaled up by predicting the remaining plants of a stand by plant...

8: The ecology and technology of accelerating forest ecosystem recovery

Whilst the science of restoration has improved greatly over recent years, the technologies for implementing it remain primitive. Nearly all accessible land is already used for agriculture. So,...