Projects:

Ecosynth: 3D Tools for Ecology

 
3D point cloud of a forest on the UMBC campus (Dandois & Ellis 2010)		 The Ecosynth Project develops low-cost user-deployed open-source tools for scanning ecosystems in 3D from sets of digital photographs acquired at low altitude from light-weight aerial platforms or the ground.

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The Ecosynth project began in Spring 2009 with grant support from the USFS and the UMBC CUERE IGERT, and is now supported by a grant from NSF's Advances in Bioinformatics Program.


First publication from the project:

Dandois, J. P. and E. C. Ellis. 2010. Remote sensing of vegetation structure using computer vision. Remote Sensing 2(4):1157-1176. [download]
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.

Please contact Erle Ellis for more information.