Fourth workshop on TLS in forest ecology

Congratulations to Kim Calders, Sruthi Moorthy, Hans Verbeeck and Miro Demol on organizing a fantastic workshop in Gent Belgium, focussed on the applications of TLS in forest ecology 6-7 May. The meeting attracted around 80 participants and consisted of a series of key-note presentations and open discussions chaired by a rapporteur http://www.tlsforest2019.ugent.be/

The meeting followed on from earlier workshops held in Salford and Tampere, and the Royal Society meeting in the UK in 2017. Gent provided a superb historic setting for the meeting and attracted many of the leading lights in forest TLS research from around the world

Historic Gent from the main canal 

Mark Danson presented a poster describing some results of the work with SALCA at Harvard Forest in 2017 and chaired the session "New opportunities with 3D data" which featured three excellent talks from Phil Wilkes (UCL, UK), Jennifer Adams (ESA) and Sean Levick (CSIRO, Australia).

Look out for a review paper analysing the key messages from the meeting in the near future. The fifth meeting will probably be in 2021.

Mark Danson and co-author Alan Strahler