In recent years an increasing focus has been placed on land restoration projects that seek to improve the management of riparian zones. These techniques include the selection of species, often native, to reduce sediment and nutrient runoff, improve streambank stability and impro...

Many nations have established national policies to support afforestation initiatives as a means to assist in meeting their climate change commitments. Such schemes include the Australian Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), as a voluntary scheme it aims to provide incentives for a ran...

NASA's space-borne LiDAR, The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) was launched to the International Space Station on December 5th, 2018. Its purpose is to map global ecosystem structure, including forest health and productivity. From GEDI waveforms, four types of struc...

Plantation statistics like those prepared by Australia’s National Plantation Inventory (NPI) are often published every five years and are compiled from survey information provided by growers and managers. The NPI is used to support strategic forest industry planning and decision-...