Tree growth is one of the most essential and widely collected woody plant traits. Yet, the traditional method to measure tree growth is awkward and time consuming. Scientists have developed a new, ...

image: Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual methods. The researchers, from the ...

There are various ways to measure plant health, and we’ve seen many projects creating open-source solutions. One we haven’t seen is a dendrometer, which involves measuring various physical dimensions ...

Luis Aguilar measures tree diameter. More than 200,000 trees are measured every five years in a primary forest in the Smithsonian's ForestGEO network plot on Barro Colorado Island in Panama.