Mapping understory vegetation in the Boreal forest: Seeing challenges as learning opportunities.
The overarching goal of my master’s project is to map and characterize the understory vegetation in the boreal forests of northern Alberta. The understory is an interesting topic of study because it has been largely disregarded as noise in many forestry studies using remote sensing, since it does not hold the same economic value that timber producing trees do. However, this vegetation layer is an important component of the forest because it influences ecosystem processes such
