Coastal Spruce Forests: A Guide to Ecological Management is available here: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/student_work/97/ This management guide is the culmination of Rose Gellman’s Master of Forestry project in the School of Forest Resources. Co-authored by our very own Greg McHale, among others.
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Last week, the Wheatland Lab spent several days with Phoenix LiDAR Systems (https://phoenixlidar.com) setting up, testing, and training on its new integrated high-performance lidar and true color mapping camera system.
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A recent article in The Maine Monitor describes current research at the University of Maine on coastal spruce resilience in the age of climate disruption. Wheatland Geospatial Lab grad student, Greg McHale, is a member of this research team. Greg is using hyperspectral and thermal imagery collected from UAVs, as well as lidar, to assess […]
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This summer, the Wheatland Lab is spearheading a comprehensive forest inventory field campaign across multiple sites in Maine. The initiative aims to gather essential on-the-ground plot data to calibrate and validate maps of merchantable volume and aboveground biomass. These maps are derived from photo-based 3-D point clouds acquired statewide by the National Agricultural Imagery Program […]
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Wheatland Geospatial Lab staff members, Dave Sandilands and Tony Guay are traveling to San Diego for the Esri User Conference!
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