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South of Scotland Cluster Meeting Short Presentation about New technology in the Forest 12 th March 2014 James England Structure Overview of the presentations Introduction & background Unmanned Aerial Vehicles James England NDF,

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South of Scotland Cluster Meeting Short Presentation

about

New technology in the Forest

12th March 2014 James England

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Overview of the presentations

Introduction & background
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
GIS & Mobile Mapping Technology
Treemetrics
Questions

Structure

James England

NDF, BSc(Hons)For, MicFor

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s)

James England

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Overview

What are they?
Types
Quadcopters, hexacopters
Fixed wing airplane
Blimp
Uses?

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Very stable and with practice easy to fly!!
Capture 14 mega pixel still images & video
Live view through smartphone
GPS stabilised, compass and altimeter
Relatively low cost £800
Lands itself if signal is lost or when battery

is low

25min flight time

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B723 Sandyford near Eskdalemuir

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B723 Sandyford near Eskdalemuir

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Automatic Flight control.

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Hand launched
Aerial mapping 2-5cm
Digital elevation models <10cm
Topographical Surveys
Orthorectified
GIS integration.

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Potential Applications:

Forest Surveying
Site Planning
Disease Detection
Drain Inspection
Assessing Windblow Safely
Bridge Inspection
Forest Research
Tree Survey
Invasive Weed Management
Forestry Education
Forest Fire Management

>>> Video

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Mobile Mapping GPS

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What do they do?
Rugged, waterproof
GPS, compass, altimeter
With the right software can plot

points, lines and polygons/areas. Applications in Forestry

Mobile Mapping Devices

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Treemetrics - 3D Laser Scanning

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http://youtu.be/QBQN-CKefj4

3D laser scanning from ground and air
Automatically map and analyse the

crop.

Effectively 3D Forest Measurement.
Accurately measure height,

straightness, taper and volume.

Fewer trees cut to maximise value.

Purpose is to get the maximum value from every tree….

Treemetrics

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Treemetrics 3D scanner - it helps foresters determine width, height and volume of trees, as well as wood quality

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3D Scan showing tree variability.

Some are more suited to be used to make pulp, while others are

better suited as sawlogs

Such trees are greater in diameter, straighter and have fewer knots.

Cutting down valuable sawlog trees for producing pulp is a waste and reduces the crop’s worth.

The system helps to address this……

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Decision Making Tools

Can analyse DBH, height, LIDAR 3D Stem profiles and

actual harvester head generated stem data.

Input log prices.
Cutting simulations

can be investigated.

Management plans Harvesting Plans Sales Planning Business Analysis

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Real Time Harvest Monitoring

Communicating directly with harvester

machine

Real time information can be shared from

remote locations

Can pin point each tree
Forest Manager can watch current harvest log

production.

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