Off to see DC .... as an artiste!

I was fortunate enough to be invited to Washington, by Prof. David Lapola and the AmazonFACE team, to show some of our images and data from the September 2016 trip to the Manaus plots.

Not a tree.

The meeting was hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and I was there primarily as part of the 'cultural', outreach aspect of the project, using our TLS data to show the forest in a new light, to other project partners, policy-makers and the public more generally. Matheus put together the lidar data, and we generated some animations and images which formed part of an installation in the IDB foyer. I was blown away to see the trees in the large banner formats, and in such grand surroundings. The pictures seemed to be very popular - I definitely wasn't the only one taking selfies, honest!

Some fool.

One of our trees, printed 3m tall.

The 4 piece banner and the fly-through Matheus and Phil produced.

People looking at the movie and the trees in the IDB foyer.

It was also nice to be able to get out and about in DC on the last afternoon, to take advantage of the sun and the DC bikeshare scheme (same bikes as London!) to see some bits of DC I've not seen before. I stopped in the leafy quad of Georgetown University - there's always time for a good tree pic.

Oak tree in the quad of Georgetown U.

How green was my valley?

In a slight departure from the usual applications of the TLS, I took the ZEB-REVO to Wales and scanned some places local to our house in Stackpole. The scan below is from the Stackpole Estate, a National Trust property with an interesting history going back several hundred years, and to the Thane of Cawdor no less!

Bosherston Lily Ponds from Stackpole Court.

Along with the iconic Bosherston Lily Ponds, the Estate has some beautiful woodlands and unusual trees, planted by the landowner in the 18th and 19th C. The Estate is a beautiful place to visit, in a breathtaking landscape. The scan below is of the front of the Stackpole Court itself, including two large, old oak trees. The old bell tower in the centre can be seen - these days a habitat for some rare Greater Horseshoe bats. There may be opportunities for scanning more the NT woodland here as part of a new citizen science project - watch this space.

Stackpole Court, scanned using the ZEB-REVO, coloured by height.