A stroll through a laser scanning Forest

Scientists use lasers "weigh" of trees exactly in the tropical forests.

Researchers at the University College of London and the National Physical Laboratory created an animation laser scanning their trees, which were presented at the meeting of the British Ecological Society in Liverpool .

The process could be monitored by deforestation and combat help calculate with more of precision the amount of carbon in the stored tropical forests , so that a financial value can be attributed to the forest in touch.

Animation, courtesy of Dr. Kim Calders. Video produced by Victoria Gill

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