Curtin University researchers will use advanced laser techniques to measure a 400-year-old King Jarrah tree at Nanga in Western Australia. Source: Timberbiz
Using LiDAR technology, Associate Professor Grant Wardell-Johnson and his team will use the data to produce 3D models of the 46.4m high tree that has a circumference of 5.7m.
The research will look at resource exploitation and climate disruption with data collected used to reconstruct old growth forests and determine.
Associate Professor Wardell-Johnson says large trees from old-growth forests are under great threat and due to climate change no longer grow like they used to.
The Curtin team has measured other trees with LiDAR before, but none of this magnitude.
