11: The Chiang Mai Research Agenda for Advancing Automated Forest Restoration

Two of the most important objectives of the workshop: “Automated Forest Restoration (AFR): Could Robots Revive Rainforests?” were: to design research programs to improve technologies for AFR,...

12: Aerial robotics and forest management and seeding

ABSTRACT: Dronecoria is a reforestation project that uses customized DIY drones to disperse seeds (“dronechory”) in clay balls. Unlike traditional aerial seeding techniques, which often depend on...

13: Unmanned aerial vehicles for automated forest restoration

ABSTRACT: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been gaining in popularity and are used in many fields, including biodiversity conservation. They are currently available in many sizes and forms,...

14: Agroforestry options for degraded landscapes in Southeast Asia

ABSTRACT: In Southeast Asia 8.5% of the global human population lives on 3.0% of the land area. With 7.9% of the global agricultural land base, the region has 14.7% and 28.9% of such land with at...

15: Social, economic and legal issues of automated forest restoration

ABSTRACT: Practitioners often concentrate most on the technical aspects of forest restoration and less on the social aspects, whilst often ignoring legal aspects. Social considerations include...

16: 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...

17: Innovation and robotics in forestry weed management

ABSTRACT: Traditional and established methods of weed management are outlined, from hand-weeding, to the use of herbicides and biological control. Recent new developments in detection and control...

18: Automating site assessments using data from UAVs

ABSTRACT: Much progress has been made in remotely detecting forest loss, particularly by using satellite imagery. However, quantification of different stages of forest degradation continues to be...

19: Automated vegetation monitoring for forest restoration

ABSTRACT: We discuss the potential of automating vegetation monitoring, to aid forest restoration. We propose that automated monitoring focuses on estimating forest biomass and tree diversity,...

20: Basics of automated plant identification  

ABSTRACT: Historically, image-based dichotomous plant identification keys precede text-based ones by nearly one hundred years. Having lain in conceptual torpor for over 300 years, the notion of...