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Autonomous Systems for Forest ProtEctioN (ASPEN)

August 14, 2024 • Sean Riley • Season 4 • Episode 11

Forest protection is essential to mitigating climate change, and a major objective of the Forests and Climate Leaders’ Partnership established at COP27.

The ASPEN project aims to develop an integrated framework for the autonomous detection, diagnosis and treatment of tree pests and diseases while trialling key components.

Co-delivered by a multidisciplinary team, with UK Forestry Commission and industry partners, ASPEN wants to advance the sociotechnical feasibility of managing tree health through improving the application of machine learning to remote sensing forest data, trialling autonomous sampling for diagnosis and treatment deployment, and crystallising the governance context of these systems.

Project website: Autonomous Systems for Forest ProtEctioN – UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub (tas.ac.uk)

Podcast Guests:
Dr Seumas Bates, Research Officer in Environmental Social Science
Dr Calum Imrie, Research Associate - University of York

Acknowledgement: Norman Dandy

Podcast Host: Sean Riley

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