Remote sensing is a powerful tool for precision forestry, providing the forestry industry with spatial information on environment impacts, growth and yield, site variables and damage assessment. Nonetheless the extraction of information from remotely sensed imagery is presently labor intensive requiring highly qualified remote sensing experts, making this information source expensive and slow. With the improvement of spatial resolution, very high resolution remote sensing image are now a competitive alternative to aerial photography and field visits in forest resource survey. In recent years, ...
