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Forestry, Paper & Packaging · Recorded milestone

Airborne forest lidar

Recorded year2010

Laser scanning from aircraft measures every tree and the carbon it stores.

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Built on

LidarRecorded · 1961enables
GPSRecorded · 1995enables
Nationwide laser height mapRecorded · 2003enables

Led to

Engineered carbon treesRecorded · 2023enables
Robotic selective forestryForecast · ~2033enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.