The capacity for change in planted forests is significant, particularly in their younger years, and then once harvesting commences. Often within an organisation, several processes that record change may exist and include GPS traces, satellite imagery, UAV's and field sketch maps....

New satellites are being launched monthly with most designed to record and monitor vegetation change. The increased temporal resolution (allowing daily revisit) represents an important shift towards continuous monitoring of resources. The ability to monitor the same location repe...

Afforestation activity across New Zealand has increased since 2019, encouraged by regional initiatives, national climate change policies, and market demand. Grants targeting planting of erosion-prone land (class VII and above) are available through various channels, including reg...

One of the significant benefits of using satellite imagery for forest resource monitoring is the consistent availability of recently captured data. This is especially true of the Sentinel-2 platform, which has a revisit interval of five days, allowing multiple observations per mo...