Project description
Uncovering the economic and ecological importance of non-forest trees
Non-forest trees have been largely overlooked by researchers. In fact, little is known about their density and size, even though they play a crucial role in biodiversity and provide a large variety of ecosystem services. The EU-funded TOFDRY project will focus on trees in global drylands, aiming to shed light on how human interventions and climate change impact dryland trees as well as how these trees can help to mitigate degradation, climate change and poverty. To find the answers, the project will study the trees on an individual basis, recording their coverage but also their density, crown size, key ecological services and socio-environmental determinants. Satellite imagery and extensive field data will be used together with deep learning techniques to identify objects within imagery.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningdeep learning
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence
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Funding Scheme
ERC-STG - Starting Grant
Host institution
1165 Kobenhavn
Denmark
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1165 Kobenhavn
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