Ecosynth: Inexpensive User-Deployed 3D Tools for Ecology

User-deployed 3D scanning systems for mapping and measuring vegetation biomass, carbon and potentially biodiversity across landscapes.

 
3D point cloud of a forest on the UMBC campus
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Funders & Support

USDA USFS Shield  Baltimore Ecosystem Study 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DBI 1147089 awarded March 1, 2012. Initial and continuing support provided by the USDA Forest Service joint venture agreement 06-JV-11242300-135. Graduate student support by NSF IGERT 054969 to UMBC CUERE, undergraduate student support from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study DEB-0423476. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.