The MSc thesis of Gus Lopes Queiroz is centered on the study of automated detection of coarse woody debris (CWD) on high-resolution aerial images of the boreal forest. A field campaign was performed during the summer of 2018 to physically obtain CWD measurements on forest restoration sites near Conklin, Alberta. Next, a machine learning solution to semi-automatically classify CWD on aerial images was performed with reliable accuracy. Rigorous tests on the precision of the met