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WPHSN Report 2023

A full report of the activities and findings from the second season of sampling undertaken for the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network.

Agroforestry Tree Species Guide v5

Agroforestry Tree Species Guide v5

Forest-Research-Strategy-2019

Forest-Research-Strategy-2019

Hall et al 2020 Social and cultural values of trees woods and forests

Hall et al 2020 Social and cultural values of trees woods and forests

Forest mensuration: a handbook for practitioners

Forest Mensuration is an essential, practice-based handbook designed to help all those working in the timber trade and forestry understand how to measure trees and timber. Written for practitioners, researchers and students, this new edition aims to cut through some of the complexities of forest mensuration by providing a logical format and additional advice to […]

Detecting young trees from space

FR have established how to detect young trees from space using synthetic aperture RADAR and machine learning techniques. This will support the monitoring of the planting of tens of thousands of restock sites and new woodland across Britain. In searching for a solution researchers hypothesised that even if the trees are too small to see, maybe we could ‘feel’ them using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). A different technique to utilising optical data, SAR provides ‘fuzzy’ data on the presence of objects, their size, orientation and texture. The research found that this was possible and data on whether sites had tree cover or not has been derived for extensive areas of Britain and NFI are working to operationalise the process.

Modelling and forecasting timber yield and quality in Europe (MEFYQUE)

This page summarises output from the ‘Modelling and forecasting timber yield and quality in Europe’ (MEFYQUE) project, funded by the EU’s Fifth Framework Programme (FP5).

Compression Wood – Progress Report – to May 2003

Compression wood in conifers EU research programme

Compression Wood – Evaluating the mechanical properties

Three point bending and mMicrodensitometry tests

Compression Wood – Progress Report – May 2002

Compression wood in conifers EU research programme

Canopy throughfall and interception

This page summarises the main findings of the project ‘Investigation of canopy throughfall and interception’, partially funded by the EU’s Forest Focus C funding scheme.

Carbon accounting

This page provides an overview of available methodologies – including the CARBINE and C-SORT models developed independently by Forest Research – for calculating how much carbon is emitted or sequestered by forests.