NSF Funds ProForest Members to Study Why Tree Mortality is Increasing in the U.S.
The goal of the project is to refine machine learning capabilities by pairing more frequent and detailed on-the ground measurements with more frequent and detailed remote sensing data. This project will build upon two research networks - National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Smithsonian Institution's Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO). They will utilize Broadbent's unoccupied aerial vehicle, GatorEye, that he developed at his co-laboratory the University of Florida. Collaborators include Carlos Alberto Silva of UF's School of Forests, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Kristina Anderson-Teixeira of the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation Biology Institute; James Lutz of Utah State University; Dave Orwig of Harvard Forest and; Sean McMahon of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
More on the project can be found through this news release.
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