Forest Flows has started its second aerial campaign collecting remote sensing data!
October 31, 2022
This spring campaign, led by The University of Auckland's Dr Delwyn Moller, provides key soil moisture and forest canopy data from various sites across NZ. Remote sensing data are collected when the forested catchments are wet (spring) and dry (late summer) to prov...
Wireless soil moisture sensor deployment at Riverhead Forest
September 29, 2022
Last week, Research Leader Dean Meason worked with The University of Auckland colleagues installing Massachusetts Institute of Technology / USC SoilSCAPE wireless soil moisture sensors (https://soilscape.usc.edu/) at Riverhead Forest for the Rongowai...
Scion hosted Dr. Don White, Director and lead researcher of Whitegum Forest and Natural Resource Management for 6 weeks. He worked with inFact Limited and NIWA to develop and improved the novel integrated forest hydrology catchment model bespoke...
The Forest Flows Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour programme has successfully deployed TriOS Optical Sensors NICO nitrate sensor to continuously measure stream nitrate in NZ's planted forest catchments. These sensors will give us an unparall...
Thanks to the tireless work of Scion and NIWA field teams, Forest Flows has now 4 of the 5 primary research sites up and running! It is providing real time, big data data on water use, water retention, and water release from planted forest catchments in r...
2nd primary research site sensor network is now live
November 16, 2021
Scion's FlowLab IOT wireless sensor network for the 2nd primary research site is now live! It is providing real time data for the Forest Flows Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour programme.Once fully operational, the FlowLab wireless meshed ne...
"Generation One" Tree Ecophysiology Sensor Network
October 27, 2021
In this video a Scion Field Technical Officer is working at "Generation One" Tree Ecophysiology Sensor Network. This network of 270 electronic dendrometers, 28 sap flow flux sensors, and 15 soil moisture sensors was established in a radiata pine "Accelerator Trial"...
A new collaboration
October 27, 2021
This article talks about Scion's Forest Flows Programme collaboration with The University of Waikato's TAIAO Programme, led by Albert Bifet, to use cutting edge machine learning and artificial intelligence methodologies to analyse the Big Data being collected by thousan...
Our key remote sensing technology has arrived in the country
October 27, 2021
The key remote sensing technology for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Forest Flows programme, SimSAR L- and P-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar, has arrived in NZ. Once the paperwork is approved, it will measure soil moisture at a fine spatial resol...
FlowLab datalogger rollout suspended
October 27, 2021
NZ's COVID-19 Lockdown has suspended Scion's FlowLab datalogger rollout for the Forest Flows Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour programme. However, we were able to get a partial IOT wireless sensor network operational at one site. It is ...
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