Expertise

The experience TO undertake challenging projects with successful outcomes

 
 

Our expertise has been gained in extensive remote area field work in difficult terrain and challenging climates for over 25 years.

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Forest ecosystem and land use assessments

  • Baseline vegetation and flora assessments applicable to environmental impact statement (EIS) level and International Finance Commission (IFC) Performance Standard 6, Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources

  • IUCN listed species searches

  • Identification of sensitive vegetation and forest types

  • Invasive species (weed) surveys and associated biosecurity measures

  • GIS based vegetation, resource and land use mapping and analysis from a range of spatial data sources and imagery

  • High Conservation Value (HCV) Assessment in relation to the HCV Resource Networks principles (Licensed assessor) as applied to oil palm plantations for Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification

  • Environmental sensitivity risk analysis for resource project development

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Ecosystem health

  • Forest dieback assessments

  • Atmospheric pollution and soil contamination impacts on forests and woodland.

  • Forest monitoring systems, including benchmarking of forest and woodland structure and composition

  • Soil survey and analysis of fertility and trace element concentrations in relation to background levels and contamination

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Rehabilitation

  • Design and implementation of forest/woodland rehabilitation performance monitoring systems including interim and final completion criteria

  • Rehabilitation studies for cleared sites applicable to extractive industries and forestry

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Natural Resource Assessments

  • Community based natural resource assessments to identify important resources for community livelihoods and wellbeing, e.g., non-timber forest products (NTFPs)

  • Ecosystem services assessments for production and service functions

  • Critical community natural resource assessment including the identification of forest based famine food resources in developing countries

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Forestry & Carbon

  • Forest inventory

  • GIS, remote sensing, surveying and mapping for reliable forest carbon project boundaries and demarcation for various carbon offset stores using GPS, GNSS, UAV, LiDAR, photogrammetry  and satellite imagery

  • High-integrity forest carbon accounting with time frames and planning periods

  • UAV drone mapping and survey using photogrammetry and LiDAR for determining parameters for forest carbon yield models (i.e., allometric models) and growth and yield for biomass (we currently contract out the data capture for this based on our specifications)

  • Development of forest (carbon) yield functions from LiDAR data including developing increment growth/yield functions to track carbon increment

  • Advice on appropriate LiDAR data acquisition for yield

  • Advice / interpretations on FullCAM and its deficiencies

  • Remote sensing and GIS for forest plantation management

  • Forest carbon accounting using allometric modelling

  • Digital forest stand sample plots sampling (i.e., circular and transects) in LiDAR Survey (ALS and TLS) for parameters and inputs (i.e. canopy tree height (CHM), site index (SI), individual tree height and DBH) for growth and yield modelling and carbon yields

  • Analytics and forest estate modelling for sustainable forest Carbon Offset and economics (e.g., net present value (NPV), discounted rate factor, etc.

  • Forestry and renewable energy interaction risk analysis

  • Tropical forest management for commercial and community needs

  • Risk assessments for combined forestry and renewable energy projects

  • Forest regeneration surveys