Tropical forests are a source of several high-value products that provide livelihood to small communities in different regions. Exotic fruits such as annatto feedstock sources containing bioactive compounds with important applications the food industry. Nevertheless, integral use for community improvement and crop’s contribution carbon sequestration tropical have not been analyzed. This paper a...

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the economics of biodiversity maintenance in boreal forests. From the many tasks available in forest management to improve biodiversity maintenance, the focus is on the lengthening of forest rotation and strict protection, i.e., protected areas. Accordingly, the analysis basis on two different models named forest rotation model and site selection mod...

C.H. Luce is a Research Hydrologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), Boise, ID 83702. N. Pederson is a Senior Ecologist, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 01366. J. Campbell is a Research Ecologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station (NRS), Durham, NH 03824. C. Millar is a Paleoecologist, U.S. Department ...

This paper deals with forest inventory methods based on laser scanning and satellite remote sensing. It will be demonstrated to what extent forest inventories can benefit from the synergistic use of both sensor types. The forest inventory parameters to be assessed are: tree height, timber volume, tree species, tree age, stand boundary, and basal area. The results presented are derived from the ...

We propose a fast and accurate method for counting the mitotic figures from histopathological slides using regenerative random forest. Our method performs automatic feature selection in an integrated manner with classification. The proposed random forest assigns a weight to each feature (dimension) of the feature vector in a novel manner based on the importance of the feature (dimension). The f...

Forests play a critical role in sustaining the human environment. Most forest fires not only destroy the natural environment and ecological balance, but also seriously threaten the security of life and property. The early discovery and forecasting of forest fires are both urgent and necessary for forest fire control. This article explores the possible applications of Spatio-temporal Data Mining...

With the advent of RenovaBio, Brazil has cast a new light towards life cycle cellulosic ethanol. Once considered resource intensive alternative pathway to achieve same biofuel, second-generation approaches can now provide an economic advantage due their potentially lower carbon footprint. The exploration lignocellulosic harvest residues this end be beneficial, since productivity increased while...

Sugarcane straw has become an available lignocellulosic biomass since the progressive introduction of the non-burning harvest in Brazil. Besides keeping this biomass in the field, it can be used as a feedstock in thermochemical or biochemical conversion processes. This makes feasible its incorporation in a biorefinery, whose economic profitability could be supported by integrated production of ...

Lignocellulosic biomasses (LCB) are sustainable and abundantly available feedstocks for the production of biofuel biochemicals via suitable bioconversion processing. The main aim this review is to focus on strategies needed progression viable lignocellulosic biomass-based biorefineries (integrated approaches) generate biofuels biochemicals. Processing biomass in a manner major challenge that de...