Understanding a ‘wood baskets’ current and potential future wood supply often underpin forest investment strategies. In some countries, public information on plantation area, species and tending regimes compiled from grower surveys are published every five years. The granularity ...

LiDAR data provides an excellent data source for describing plantations, offering a range of useful metrics and allowing for the delineation of accurate boundaries. However, due to the complexity and associated cost LiDAR is generally captured infrequently – often only one observ...

Indufor, Scion and the School of Forestry, University of Canterbury are currently developing new methods to improve regional descriptions of plantations and small woodlots. These methods will use a range of freely available datasets that include LiDAR and satellite imagery. Such ...

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-...