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FORESTRY CHRONICLE
Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages 127-147Publisher
CANADIAN INST FORESTRY
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forest inventory; airborne laser scanning; ALS; terrestrial; remote sensing
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The AWARE project, a five-year collaboration involving universities, forest companies, and forestry agencies, aimed to enhance the characterization of Canadian forests using remote sensing technologies. Supported researchers examined the role of advanced remote sensing technologies in the development of accurate forest inventory systems.
The Canadian forest sector requires detailed information regarding the amount and characteristics of the forest resource. To address these needs, inventory systems that spatially quantify timber and other forest related ecosystem services are required, that are accurate, comprehensive and timely. The Assessment of Wood properties using Remote Sensing (AWARE) was a five-year project involving collaboration between seven Canadian universities, and seven forest companies with support provided by provincial and federal forestry agencies and other non-for-profit forestry focused organisations. AWARE provided methods and tools to enhance the characterization of forests at national, landscape and individual tree scales. The project supported 24 post-doctoral fellows, PhD and MSc students that examined the roles that advanced three-dimensional remote sensing technologies can play in the development of accurate forest inventory systems across Canada. In this review we examine the AWARE research project, review research highlights, key outcomes, future research needs, and provide an assessment of successes and challenges the project faced over its five-year lifetime.
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