Automated Forest Restoration: Could Robots Revive Rain Forests?

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The proceedings of a brainstorming workshop - "Automated Forest Restoration; Could Robots Revive Rain Forests?" - held in Chiang Mai Thailand in October 2015, hosted by FORRU-CMU. Comprises 14 original papers on various technologies, currently used or under development, to perform forest restoration tasks.

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Research for Restoring Tropical Forest Ecosystems: A Practical Guide

Aimed at researchers and their supervisors, this technical manual describes how to establish a forest restoration research unit (FORRU) and implement a research program to determine how best to restore tropical forest ecosystems to deforested sites.

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How to Plant a Forest: The Principles and Practice of Restoring Tropical Forests

FORRU-CMU's second practical training manual was published in 2005. It includes generic principles of restoration theory and practice, applicable throughout the tropics, as well as descriptions of target forest types (N. Thailand and neighbouring regions) and recommended tree species for planting in the region. If you are doing a forest restoration project in Indochina - this is the manual for you.

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Automated Forest Restoration

Ready to fly — ***Drones can monitor restoration progress faster, cheaper, with less disturbance, more extensively and cost-effectively than conventional ground surveys can with sample plots.***

Although forest restoration science has advanced considerably in re

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