Lidar uses in Arboriculture.

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11 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

DBH was on point Jesse!

 

Amazing.

It’s incredibly accurate, this site was pretty open so that accuracy is expected. On busier sites that may stretch out  a small margin. To be fair, it was probably a more consistent measurement than what we did with the tape 😂

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10 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Yes amazing, remote timber cruising, potentially even pick which trees to remove in a thinning and instruct the harvester.

 

It all scares me as an old motor-manual cutter as it de skills the job which I enjoyed, being out in the weather immersed in nature.

This is already being trialed in forestry, it’s super site dependent and the tech is almost there for incredibly dense forests. I would imagine it’d work well in the uk woodland.

 

Practical skills will always be required but it’s true that things are being lost. In NZ we are loosing a lot of our timber falling experts as everything that can be mechanized  has to be in a lot of forests due to health and safety regulations.  Crews are starting to loose that expertise onsite. 
 

I come from a very practical background, 15 years on the tools doing various climbing things  here there and everywhere but I’m really excited about this new innovation and integration into my daily work.