A new collaborative project between CSIRO and the Australian National University has launched at the National Arboretum Canberra. The project aims to use DWEL and Zebedee (a CSIRO handheld laser scanner) to monitor the growth, plant morphology, and health of some of the 94 small 'forests' that are planted in the arboretum. The arboretum is home to more than 48,000 trees including rare, endangered and symbolic trees from Australia and around the world.
National Arboretum Location
Monday 25 August 2014
Scanning at Tumbarumba
Our team from CSIRO recently we visited the TERN supersite at Tumbarumba in NSW to complete two days of scanning with DWEL.
The Tumbarumba site is located in the Bago State forest in south eastern New South Wales. The forest is classified as wet sclerophyll, the dominant species is Eucalyptus delegatensis, and average tree height is 40 m. Elevation of the site is 1200 m and mean annual precipitation is 1000 mm.
The mission at Tumbarumba was to scan 9 locations with DWEL (aka Super Echidna) that have been scanned using the original Echidna in previous years gone by. We were successfully able to locate all of the original scanning locations (even in the snow) and the scans were a huge success, a sample is displayed below.
While on-site, we also established a core 1 ha for TERN Supersites, a plot that will be completely inventoried, with tree DBH's, hemispherical photography, LAI and other vegetation structural measurements paving the way for potentially of many DWEL scanning trips to come.
Tumbarumba EE DWEL Scan
Tumbarumba SE GoPro Photosynth
tern tumbarumba - dwel scan at the se corner by mickschaef13 on photosynth
DWEL and VegNet in the snow
The new DWEL 'Echidna' lidar scanning the snow covered landscape at the Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite in NSW; and abvoe: a sample scan from the echidna at the site (images courtesy of CSIRO / TERN's AusCover, Ozflux team of Michael Schaefer, Eva VanGorsel & Guy Byrne)
The Tumbarumba site is located in the Bago State forest in south eastern New South Wales. The forest is classified as wet sclerophyll, the dominant species is Eucalyptus delegatensis, and average tree height is 40 m. Elevation of the site is 1200 m and mean annual precipitation is 1000 mm.
The mission at Tumbarumba was to scan 9 locations with DWEL (aka Super Echidna) that have been scanned using the original Echidna in previous years gone by. We were successfully able to locate all of the original scanning locations (even in the snow) and the scans were a huge success, a sample is displayed below.
While on-site, we also established a core 1 ha for TERN Supersites, a plot that will be completely inventoried, with tree DBH's, hemispherical photography, LAI and other vegetation structural measurements paving the way for potentially of many DWEL scanning trips to come.
Tumbarumba EE DWEL Scan
Tumbarumba SE GoPro Photosynth
tern tumbarumba - dwel scan at the se corner by mickschaef13 on photosynth
DWEL and VegNet in the snow
The new DWEL 'Echidna' lidar scanning the snow covered landscape at the Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite in NSW; and abvoe: a sample scan from the echidna at the site (images courtesy of CSIRO / TERN's AusCover, Ozflux team of Michael Schaefer, Eva VanGorsel & Guy Byrne)
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