How to better understand droughts, fires and logging impacts on forests? ERC grantee Kim Calders builds digital twin forests using 3D laser scanning and satellite data. This can help improve climate models and forecasts of forest carbon dynamics 👉 bit.ly/4dstaT2 @kimcalders.bsky.social

Grateful to everyone involved. This paper reveals how Amazon forests have been shifting towards more drought-adaptive functional strategies over the last four decades. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social @cnpq.bsky.social

Global Change Biology@globalchangebio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Detected Shifts Towards Drought‐Adaptive Strategies in the Amazon Forest Over the Last Four Decades 🔗 buff.ly/rPV82HR

We're exciting to be hosting visiting researcher, Dr Shilin Chen @shilinchen.bsky.social from @qforestlab.bsky.social. He shares his Wytham Woods research in our latest blog post. Read it here: www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/quantif...

Quantifying Forest Dynamics with Terrestrial Laser Scanning: Shilin Chen Visits Oxford

Visiting researcher, Dr Shilin Chen, shares his research on quantifying forest structural attributes and aboveground carbon dynamics with terrestrial laser scanning in a temperate deciduous forest

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We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very excited to share our latest study (from @qforestlab.bsky.social ) "Quantifying forest structural attributes and aboveground carbon dynamics with terrestrial laser scanning in a temperate deciduous forest" online now (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) Many thanks to all co-authors!

Quantifying forest structural attributes and aboveground carbon dynamics with terrestrial laser scanning in a temperate deciduous forest

Quantifying forest structure and aboveground biomass carbon (AGBC) dynamics over time is crucial for evaluating climate change impact on carbon stocks…

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📢 Job Alert – Assistent bij Q-ForestLab (Ghent University) (Dutch only) Interesse in onderwijs en onderzoek binnen milieu- en boswetenschappen? Deze functie combineert een doctoraat rond AI & remote sensing met onderwijsondersteuning. Lees meer: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Ass... Deadline: 13-01-2026

New paper by Wout Cherlet & @qforestlab.bsky.social team led by @kimcalders.bsky.social, comparing tree extraction methods from TLS data. TL;DR it's hard to automate, ecosystem dependent & parametric approaches currently outperform DL www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Benchmarking tree instance segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) has revolutionized forest measurement techniques by providing detailed three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data that c…

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An ancient yew tree in Scotland that is half the age of the Holocene has caught our attention. What a privilege to be in the presence of one of the oldest trees in Europe. @ymalhi.bsky.social explains the significance of this giant. @naturerecovery.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social

I like big trees and I cannot lie. Great bit of work by @kimcalders.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social and colleagues using innovative climbing and scanning approach. Stunning illustration of tree structural and biodiversity complexity zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Integrating terrestrial and canopy laser scanning for comprehensive analysis of large old trees: Implications for single tree and biodiversity research

Canopy laser scanning (CLS) enhances 3D measurements of large trees by lifting laser scanners into the canopy. Combining CLS with terrestrial laser scanning improves point cloud precision, reduces oc...

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Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Realistic virtual forests for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space

Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and composition due to land use change and natural distur…

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Join us!

Kim Calders@kimcalders.bsky.social · last yr.

Job Alert! We are hiring a new PhD candidate to work with me and @louiseterryn.bsky.social on multitemporal terrestrial laser scanning for better understanding forest structural dynamics at @qforestlab.bsky.social . More info ➡️ bit.ly/449NunA Apply here ➡️ bit.ly/3I5AnMP Application deadline: Aug 3

We are hiring! Postdoc for multi-scale LIDAR and European biomass monitoring. www.gfz.de/en/career/jo...

Just a few more days to apply for this #pdra position in our group 👇 please share widely!

Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar

Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar

Job Alert - Come work with us at @qforestlab.bsky.social! I'm hiring a postdoctoral fellow in vegetation remote sensing and radiative transfer to work on my @erc.europa.eu SPACETWIN project (spacetwin.ugent.be). More info ➡️ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: March 7

We are currently in Patagonia for our @ercresearch.bsky.social project #SPACETWIN, looking at the impact of caterpillar (Ormiscodes amphimone) disturbance on the Nothofagus forests. This is a @qforestlab.bsky.social collaboration with the team of Roberto O. Chávez from PUCV in Valparaíso [1/4]

We are collecting terrestrial laser scanning data, spectral measurements of leaves, bark and understory and multispectral drone data. Not too much is known about these forests and these field measurements will result into a better understanding of these ecosystems. [3/4]

Later this month, we will move to sector Jeinimeni, where there is currently a large outbreak ongoing – completely defoliating trees. Video from earlier this week [4/4]

@qforestlab.bsky.social There are so many leaf-wood separation algorithms, don't know how to choose? Our latest work (from @qforestlab.bsky.social ) has addressed this issue by providing a robust evaluation framework. Interested? please check our paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kKNW7qzT3...

New paper by Shilin Chen @qforestlab.bsky.social in RSE on the impact different leaf removal has on biomass estimates from TLS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The impact of leaf-wood separation algorithms on aboveground biomass estimation from terrestrial laser scanning

Leaf-wood separation plays an important role in estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) of trees from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds. Yet,…

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Wouter & Wout from @qforestlab.bsky.social are currently collecting TLS data at the Caxiuanã through-fall exclusion (TFE) experiment for our #ERC SPACETWIN working with our Brazilian collaborators and Patrick Meir. Continuing the TLS time-series that was initiated by @matdisney.bsky.social [1/2]