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If you work in the forestry industry, then you'd better know that you're cutting down the right type of trees. With this is mind, researchers from Finland's Tampere University of Technology have ...

image: Laser technology has been used to measure the volume and biomass of giant Californian redwood trees for the first time, records a new study by UCL researchers. view more Laser technology has ...

Researchers have used cutting-edge laser sensors to count the number of trees in China and mapped their distribution across the country. A new estimate from this study suggests that there are about ...

A terrestrial laser scanning technique that allows the structure of vegetation to be 3D-mapped to the millimetre is more accurate in determining the biomass of trees and carbon stocks in forests than ...