Small, native ornamental trees can be used to break up open areas, frame views, and provide intimate interest. Many small trees provide spectacular spring flowers, attractive summer foliage, vibrant ...

Inside a large glass dome in Guangzhou, China, a multi-level indoor forest grows beneath a curved steel and glass structure. Elevated walkways allow visitors to move above the trees while viewing the ...

A global comparison of ten satellite-based forest datasets found striking disagreement about where forests are located, with only about a quarter of mapped forest area recognized by all sources.

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a regularization technique called sparse probabilistic split (SPS), which introduces controlled randomness into the node-splitting process of decision trees to mitigate ...

I have just returned from San Antonio, the location of this year’s American Society of Consulting Arborists Annual Conference. Held in a different U.S. city each year, it comprises several days of ...

The author reflects on Christmas, family, and the loss of his older sister. He shares a favorite family story about his procrastinating father buying a Christmas tree. Two days before Christmas, his ...

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