New research has shown how small, inexpensive drones combined with free, open source software can be used by community forest organizations to calculate and monitor the amount of carbon stored in ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by ...

He uses SketchUp, but this would work on any software ... Of course, you can get 3D scanners, but they have their own challenges.

A university-led project to 3D scan an ancient tree in Nottinghamshire has been used to help create artwork as part of a new exhibition. University of Nottingham academics scanned the Major Oak, in ...

Other benefits that TSL brings besides simplifying shading creation is keeping the renderer agnostic, while all the complexity of a material can be imported into different modules and use tree shaking ...