Use of individual tree and product level data to improve operational forestry

RF Keefe, EG Zimbelman, G Picchi - Current Forestry Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Individual tree detection (ITD) methods and technologies for
tracking individual forest products through a smart operational supply chain from stump to …

Recent Applications of Smart Technologies for Monitoring the Sustainability of Forest Operations

R Venanzi, F Latterini, V Civitarese, R Picchio - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Precision forestry is a useful technique to help forest stakeholders with proper sustainable
forest management. Modern sensors and technologies, with special reference to the …

Attention mechanism-based bidirectional long short-term memory for cycling activity recognition using smartphones

VS Nguyen, H Kim, D Suh - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bicycles are an ecofriendly mode of transportation, and cycling offers physical and mental
well-being. However, their increased use has resulted in frequent bicycle–human accidents …

A novel smartphone-based activity recognition modeling method for tracked equipment in forest operations

RM Becker, RF Keefe - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Activity recognition modelling using smartphone Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) is an
underutilized resource defining and assessing work efficiency for a wide range of natural …

Wearables for Well-Being: A Longitudinal in Situ Study of Smartwatches to Understand and Enhance Line-Level Housekeeping Work

A Necaise, C Mejia, JT Kider, M Shoss… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Increased strain on the hospitality industry following the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing
labor shortages has led to calls for new technologies such as smartwatches for …

Use of Bluetooth low energy and ultra-wideband sensor systems to detect people in forest operations danger zones

F Hönigsberger, C Gollob, T Varch… - … Journal of Forest …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Forests are challenging workplace environments with rugged and steep terrains and large
danger zones obscured by dense forest stands. Additionally, there are often restrictions on …

Lost in the woods: Forest vegetation, and not topography, most affects the connectivity of mesh radio networks for public safety

EG Zimbelman, RF Keefe - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Real-time data-and location-sharing using mesh networking radios paired with smartphones
may improve situational awareness and safety in remote environments lacking …

Sub-GHz Wrist-Worn Antennas for Wireless Sensing Applications: A Review

S Kumar, G Moloudian… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With recent advances in wearable wrist-worn wireless sensing applications, the demand for
smartwatches and wristbands is rapidly increasing due to their widespread adoption in …

Development of activity recognition models for mechanical fuel treatments using consumer-grade GNSS-RF devices and lidar

RM Becker, RF Keefe - Forestry: An International Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Mobile technologies are rapidly advancing the field of forest operations and providing
opportunities to quantify management tasks in new ways through increased digitalization …

Improving the event-based classification accuracy in pit-drilling operations: An application by neural networks and median filtering of the acceleration input signal data

SN Castro Pérez, SA Borz - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forestry is a complex economic sector which is relying on resource and process monitoring
data. Most of the forest operations such as planting and harvesting are supported by the use …