Featured Projects
Terrestrial Mobile LiDAR for High Resolution Forest Inventory
Wood and Bark ID
Tree Inventory with Aerial Remote Sensing
DIGITAL FORESTRY DATABASE
Turn images into information about forests through our centralized database.
About the Integrated Digital Forestry Initiative
Led by Songlin Fei, professor and the Dean’s Remote Sensing Chair, the Integrated Digital Forestry Initiative (iDiF) at Purdue University is leveraging digital technology and multidisciplinary expertise to measure, monitor and manage urban and rural forests to maximize social, economic and ecological benefits.
Our multidisciplinary research team is developing digital platforms and strategies that will revolutionize forestry and build a globally competitive next generation workforce for the information age.
Featured Stories
Purdue University has now led a study involving 249 co-authors from more than 50 nations that analyzed a database of unrivaled size and detail to understand the geographic variation of local tree species richness across the world’s forested regions, and…
Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service recently announced the new and improved Alien Forest Pest Explorer interactive web tool. The user-friendly dashboard combines information from multiple sources to show the impact of different forest insects and diseases, and the potential…
About Next Moves
In 2013, Purdue University included plant sciences among the investment that would reinforce the university’s stature as a world-class institution, a plan called Purdue Moves.