WEST LAFAYETTE – Songlin Fei is the Dean’s Chair in Remote Sensing and director of the Institute for Digital Forestry at Purdue University. In this video, he explains what digital forestry is and how AI and other tools are helping to quickly map forests in 3D. Through a process called digital tree reconstruction, sensor data from drones, satellites, and LiDAR systems can put real-world trees into 3D models. These digital forests can be used to simulate how light, wind, and wildfires affect these areas in reality. AI takes the large amounts of data gathered and organizes the information for experts to use. This process would typically take days to do, but with AI can be done in a matter of hours. The combination of these new pieces of technology allows experts to gather data on forests quickly and with more detail than ever before.
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