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The canopy of a red spruce stand at Penny’s Preserve in Blue Hill. Photo by Emmett Gartner.

Maine coastal spruce research project featured in The Maine Monitor

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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Summer 2025 WGL field crew

Wheatland Lab’s Summer Forest Inventory Campaign Enhances Mapping Accuracy

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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