Elliott Smeds has published an open-source software package ‘lacunr’, written in the R programming language, which allows for efficient calculation of 3D lacunarity using LiDAR point clouds, with specific emphasis on forest stands. It includes tools to process point clouds into voxel data and 3D spatial maps and facilitates rapid visualization of lacunarity curves via built-in plotting functions.
See the publication here
On December 2nd, 2022, Zane will be presenting his thesis at the Master’s Thesis Defense. Good luck, Zane!
Dr. Bentley will be giving a presentation on quantifying aboveground carbon stocks and fire fuels to inform natural resource management at the CSU ARI meeting on October 21st, 2022.
Welcome to the new graduate students joining the Bentley Lab in Fall 2022: Devin Bassi, Alex Flores and Alex Martin. We’re excited to grow our team!
Congrats to Zane on winning 1st place in the SSU Grad Slam competition!! He will now compete in the CSU-wide competition in May. Good luck, Zane!
Congratulations to Brieanne on publishing her thesis work comparing remote sensing and field-based approaches to estimate ladder fuels and predict wildfire burn severity. We’re looking forward to the impact her work has on forest management in Sonoma County and beyond. Congrats, Brieanne! You can find her open access publication here.
Congrats to Cory and his co-authors who examined abiotic and biotic factors influencing specimen black oaks (Quercus kellogii) in northern California to reimplement traditional ecological knowledge and promote ecosystem resilience post-wildfire. Stay tuned for the PDF.
Lisa will present the team’s 3DForests Project research at the CSU ARI Annual Meeting on October 29th, as it is partially funded by a system-wide CSU ARI grant.
Alanna, Paul, and Zane had their abstracts accepted to present their research at the Association of Fire Ecology Meeting in December 2021!
Sean Reilly’s analysis using unoccupied aerial systems (drones) to look at post-Tubbs forest structure change at Pepperwood has been published. Go check it out by clicking below!
