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  • Staff

    Jack Forster

    Statistician
    Inventory, forecasting and operational support (IFOS)
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    Matthew Wilkinson

    Programme Manager - NCEA (Natural Capital Ecosystem Assessment)
    Inventory, forecasting and operational support (IFOS)
  • Research

    Detecting young trees from space

    FR have established how to detect young trees from space using synthetic aperture RADAR and machine learning techniques. This will support the monitoring of the planting of tens of thousands of restock sites and new woodland across Britain. In searching for a solution researchers hypothesised that even if the trees are too small to see, maybe we could ‘feel’ them using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). A different technique to utilising optical data, SAR provides ‘fuzzy’ data on the presence of objects, their size, orientation and texture. The research found that this was possible and data on whether sites had tree cover or not has been derived for extensive areas of Britain and NFI are working to operationalise the process.