Projects

What I'm building.

Named, funded efforts with partners and a clock. Each links to the research it advances.

★ ARIA Creator · Engineering Ecosystem Resilience

3DTreePrint

Closed-loop resilience monitoring with scalable, repeatable, low-cost 3D structure mapping

Selected by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency to lead 3DTreePrint within its Engineering Ecosystem Resilience opportunity space. ARIA’s high-risk, high-reward bet on new ways to monitor ecosystems. It pairs low-cost LiDAR with automated workflows to make detailed 3D measurement of trees affordable, repeatable and scalable, producing “3D structural fingerprints” that reveal how ecosystems change and recover.

ROLE: Creator / team lead · STATUS: seed funded (2026)
PARTNERS: Forest Research · Earthwatch Europe · Polish Academy of Sciences
RESEARCH: 3D forest structure · low-cost sensing

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Interactive 3D scandrag to orbit · scroll to zoom · coloured by elevation
Tropics · field

Scanning Together

Community-led, accessible 3D LiDAR for tropical forests. Handheld scanners costing under €2,000, open software and offline multilingual training handed to local teams in tropical regions. So communities don’t just collect data, they own it and decide with it.

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STATUS: Madagascar done (Aug 2026) · 10 scanners handed over · 15+ trained · Tanzania next, 8–20 Nov 2026
FUNDER: National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) · 12-month project
PARTNERS: Univ. of Zurich (Scanning4Africa) · Kew Madagascar · Université de Mahajanga · Univ. of SAVA · Duke Lemur Center · TBSE · IPPT PAN · CWMAC (Tanzania)
RESEARCH: low-cost sensing · 3D forest structure

Madagascar handover
Urban · testbed

3D Urban Tree Intelligence

An international hackathon and implementation testbed (Bratislava, June 2026) putting LiDAR, mobile mapping and low-cost prototypes head-to-head in real city conditions with goal turning point clouds into practical information for urban tree managers. Data collected; processing now underway. Part of COST Action INTUF.

STATUS: data collected · processing ongoing
RESEARCH: urban & ecosystem EO · low-cost sensing

Project site

Completed

Network · 60+ countries

3DForEcoTech

A COST Action I chaired from 2021 to 2025, uniting 600+ scientists, practitioners and manufacturers to harmonise 3D forest measurement: shared protocols, open benchmarks, and pioneering mobile-laser-scanning trials in the national forest inventories and more can be found on 3DForEcoTech website.

ROLE: Chair 2021–25 · 600+ members · 60+ countries
RESEARCH: open science · 3D forest structure