Variability and uncertainty in forest biomass estimates from the tree to landscape scale: the role of allometric equations

AG Vorster, PH Evangelista, AEL Stovall… - Carbon Balance and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Biomass maps are valuable tools for estimating forest carbon and forest
planning. Individual-tree biomass estimates made using allometric equations are the …

Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review

J Zhao, J Wang, N Anderson - International Journal of Forest …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Forest and biomass crops for bioenergy and bioproducts can promote a sustainable
bioeconomy while effectively reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate global …

Discrete-event simulation of ground-based timber harvesting operations

J She, W Chung, D Kim - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Operational studies are necessary to support production and management decisions of
forest industries. A time study (TS) approach is widely used in timber harvesting operations …

Economic and environmental optimization of the forest supply chain for timber and bioenergy production from beetle-killed forests in northern Colorado

J She, W Chung, H Han - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Harvesting mountain pine beetle-infested forest stands in the northern Colorado Rocky
Mountains provides an opportunity to utilize otherwise wasted resources, generate net …

Multiobjective record‐to‐record travel metaheuristic method for solving forest supply chain management problems with economic and environmental objectives

J She, W Chung, H Vergara - Natural Resource Modeling, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multiobjective optimization is increasingly used to assist decision‐making in forest
management when multiple objectives are considered and conflict with each other. Since …

Productivity and costs of two beetle-kill salvage harvesting methods in Northern Colorado

H Han, W Chung, J She, N Anderson, L Wells - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Two ground-based timber harvesting methods have been commonly used for beetle-kill
salvage treatments after a bark beetle epidemic in northern Colorado. A “lop and scatter” …

A radar backscatter simulation of a forest canopy using 3D physical structures derived from LiDAR scanning

V Escobar-Ruiz, W Maslanka… - … Journal of Remote …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims to explore the forest aboveground biomass relationship to C-band
backscatter. A one-hectare area in Wytham Woods, located west of Oxford, was selected for …

A cultural consensus of fire and futility: Harvesting beetle-kill for wood-based bioenergy in Wyoming and Colorado

D Jensen-Ryan, R Budowle, S Strauss… - Energy Research & …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated key forest stakeholders' perspectives on wood-based bioenergy
development in the Medicine Bow Region of Wyoming and Colorado. Utilizing a qualitative …

Characterizing Forest Biomass and the Impacts of Bark Beetles and Forest Management in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA

AG Vorster - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Forest carbon sequestration is key in mitigating rising atmospheric carbon concentrations.
Recent bark beetle (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) outbreaks have decreased forest carbon …

There's more to harvesting than green timber and sawlogs: Engineering forest operations for 21st-century forest management

A Watts, NN Anderson, J Hogland… - Science You Can …, 2022 - research.fs.usda.gov
For most of the 20th century, a primary objective of forest operations on federal public lands
was supplying green timber to the forest products industry for manufacturing lumber and …