What I'm building.
Named, funded efforts with partners and a clock. Each links to the research it advances.
3DTreePrint
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, recover and show early stress.
Scanning Together
Community-led, accessible 3D LiDAR for tropical forests. Sub-€1,500 handheld scanners, open software and offline multilingual training handed to local teams in Tanzania and Madagascar — so communities don’t just collect data, they own and decide with it. Co-led with Prof. Niloy Mitra (UCL Computer Science).
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 — turning point clouds into practical information for urban tree managers. Data collected; processing now underway. Part of COST Action INTUF.
3DForEcoTech
A COST Action I chair, uniting 500+ scientists, practitioners and manufacturers to harmonise 3D forest measurement — shared protocols, open benchmarks, and pioneering mobile-laser-scanning trials in the national forest inventories of Switzerland, Finland and Slovakia.