Assessment of wood attributes using remote sensing (AWARE)

加拿大的森林清查和管理要求正在迅速变化，因为森林部门努力满足日益复杂的一套规则、标准、商业惯例和公众期望（即，经济、环境和社会政策目标）。因此，加拿大林业部门必须从每棵收获的树木中产生最大可能的价值。在这些新的压力下，可持续森林管理和提供生态系统服务的一个重大障碍是缺乏关于供应性质的详细信息，即森林资源的数量和特点。为了消除这一障碍，有两个关键需求。第一，开发准确的库存系统，在空间上量化木材和其他与森林有关的生态系统服务，第二，进一步使用这些系统，以改善森林生态系统的建模，无论是在准确性和全面性。该项目与政府和工业研究人员合作，满足了这两个需求。有了这个信息产业可以战略性投资，并通过提高能力，了解供应的性质，定位和分离树木的能力，为特定的最终用途，使产品隔离和资源价值最大化，在整个价值链中受益。

Canadian forest inventory and management requirements are changing rapidly as the forest sector works to satisfy an increasingly complex set of rules, standards, business practices, and public expectations (i.e., economic, environmental and social policy goals). As a result the Canadian forestry sector must generate the maximum possible value from each tree harvested. A significant barrier to the sustainable management of forests and the provision of ecosystem services under these new pressures is a lack of detailed information regarding the nature of the supply, that is, the amount and characteristics of forest resources. To address this barrier, there are two critical needs. First, to develop accurate inventory systems that spatially quantify timber and other forest related ecosystem services and second, to further the use of these systems to improve modeling of forested ecosystems, both with respect to accuracy and comprehensiveness. This project meets these two needs, in collaboration with government and industrial researchers. With this information industry can strategically invest and draw benefits across the entire value chain through an enhanced ability to understand the nature of the supply, the ability to locate and separate trees for particular end uses and enable product segregation and resource value maximization.