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: Multi-Scenario Simulations of Future Forest Cover Changes Influenced by Socio-Economic Development: A Case Study in the Chiang Mai-Lamphun Basin

Abstract: Changes in land cover in the Chiang Mai-Lamphun basin have been influenced by pressures of rapid socio-economic developments. The Markov-cellular automata and a multi-layer perceptron...

4: Comparison of seedling detection and height measurement using 3D point cloud models from three software tools: applications in forest restoration

ABSTRACT: A challenge for forest restoration is monitoring success, particularly in terms of seedling survivorship. 3D-point-cloud models, generated from aerial images taken from unmanned aerial...

5: 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...

6: 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...

7: Developing a Forest-Degradation Index for Forest Ecosystem Restoration Using UAV-based RGB Photography

Abstract: Forest degradation assessment is essential to plan restoration. This study was a first attempt to develop a forest-degradation index (FDI), based on data from unmanned aerial vehicles...

8: Locating and identifying seed tree species for forest restoration in northern Thailand using an unmanned aerial vehicle  

ABSTRACT: Rapid and reliable location of seed trees of required species, within forest, is essential, if global forest restoration targets are to be achieved, e.g. the Bonn Challenge (forest...

9: 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,...

10: 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...