TECHNOLOGY
The Current Stack: From Handheld SLAM to Splat
A walk-through of the tools a single capture passes through — handheld SLAM LiDAR in the field, 3DFin on the desk, and two very different outputs at the end.
Sora Tanaka
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DISPATCHES · 6 ENTRIES
TECHNOLOGY
What SLAM Changed in the Field
The shift from tripod to mobile SLAM is not primarily about speed. It is about which forests we can now capture at all.
Liana Kestral
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TECHNOLOGY
Point Clouds for Science, Gaussian Splats for Advocacy
They are representations of the same forest, optimized for completely different purposes. Using the wrong one in the wrong room is a real mistake.
Sora Tanaka
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SCIENCE
Ground Truth: DBH and Core Sampling as Calibration
No instrument reads a tree's age. An increment borer does. The relationship between what LiDAR measures and what a core reveals is the foundation of defensible forest science.
Dr. Mateo Vargas · Liana Kestral
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SCIENCE
Reading the Stand: Composition Analysis with TreeLearn
A LiDAR point cloud contains more information than most people know how to ask it. TreeLearn is our pipeline for asking.
Dr. Mateo Vargas
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FIELD METHOD
How We Scan a Block at Risk
Walking into a threatened stand with a SLAM sensor changes what you can know and how fast you can know it.
Liana Kestral
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