Currently, members of the SUSTAINFORESTs team are doing field work for the project. Find some impressions from their visits to forest patches in Benin and Togo.
Rainforest with lianas and Chromolaena odorata, an invasive species. It can be found where forests are degraded or in fallows.
Ceiba pentandra with large buttresses. In the rainforest, it can be difficult to measure diameter at breast height (DBH). Hence the advantage of terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) scans.
Sunlight penetrates the forest on top of Mount Agou (Togo).
FARO M70 terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) in the Kouvizoun forest (Benin). A tag on the trees allows joint registration of multiple scans (connection to a single point cloud) and link to forest inventory data (species identification).
Participatory mapping in Benin.