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  • Successful urban forestry needs evidence and guidance

    Successful urban forestry needs evidence and guidance

    From our long experience working with green space planners and managers, as well as other decision makers, we know there is a wish for better information and tools for decision making. But policymakers and practitioners often don’t have the time to go through scientific articles and hefty scientific reports. NBSI tries to meet this demand,…

  • Blueprint for Innovation in Urban Forestry

    Blueprint for Innovation in Urban Forestry

    The main objective of this report is to provide a first framework for assessing innovation factors influencing urban forestry. Through the analysis of 20 case studies on urban forestry best practices in the EU, this report offers an overview of urban forestry innovation in the European continent. This document will be used as part of…

  • The potential of remote sensing in urban forest inventory

    The potential of remote sensing in urban forest inventory

    Nowadays, remote sensing is one of the most important technologies for forest inventories. The availability of open data from Copernicus constellation and national programs of aerial photogrammetry capture and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has allowed the development of new urban forest inventory techniques. The combination of this new data sources with machine learning techniques,…

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