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    Precision forestry revisited
    (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2025) Vatandaşlar, Can; Boston, Kevin; Uçar, Zennure; Narine, Lana L.; Madden, Marguerite; Akay, Abdullah Emin
    Highlights: What are the main findings? Precision forestry has grown substantially since the early 2010s, driven by advances in UAV and LiDAR technologies. Nearly half of the reviewed studies focus on forest management and planning, with remote sensing platforms and sensors being the dominant tools. What are the implications of the main findings? Although data collection and analysis in forestry have advanced significantly, the translation of these tools into fully automated, integrated, and widely adopted practices is lagging. Geographic disparities and an aging, undertrained workforce continue to limit adoption, underscoring the need for updated forestry curricula and stronger industry–academia collaboration. This review presents a synthesis of global research on precision forestry, a field that integrates advanced technologies to enhance—rather than replace—established tools and methods used in the operational forest management and the wood products industry. By evaluating 210 peer-reviewed publications indexed in Web of Science (up to 2025), the study identifies six main categories and eight components of precision forestry. The findings indicate that “forest management and planning” is the most common category, with nearly half of the studies focusing on this topic. “Remote sensing platforms and sensors” emerged as the most frequently used component, with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems being the most widely adopted tools. The analysis also reveals a notable increase in precision forestry research since the early 2010s, coinciding with rapid developments in small UAVs and mobile sensor technologies. Despite growing interest, robotics and real-time process control systems remain underutilized, mainly due to challenging forest conditions and high implementation costs. The research highlights geographical disparities, with Europe, Asia, and North America hosting the majority of studies. Italy, China, Finland, and the United States stand out as the most active countries in terms of research output. Notably, the review emphasizes the need to integrate precision forestry into academic curricula and support industry adoption through dedicated information and technology specialists. As the forestry workforce ages and technology advances rapidly, a growing skills gap exists between industry needs and traditional forestry education. Equipping the next generation with hands-on experience in big data analysis, geospatial technologies, automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is critical for ensuring the effective adoption and application of precision forestry.
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    Sustainability language found in forest plans and its mathematical modeling potential
    (SPRINGERNATURE, 2024) Vatandaşlar, Can; Bettinger, Pete; Merry, Krista; Garzon, Alba Rocio Gutierrez; Boston, Kevin; Lee, Taeyoon
    Over the last fifty years, management plans have become more descriptive with regard to the potential sustainability of forest systems, raising questions about the feasibility of implementing management activities and ensuring the sustainability of a wide variety of ecosystem services. To assess this issue, we conducted a survey among forest planning and operation research communities in the United States to understand their perceptions regarding the potential of a sample of sustainability statements currently used in national forest plans to be incorporated into optimization models or other mathematical operations. A total of 65 people responded to the survey, resulting in a response rate of 16.5%. Almost 70% of the respondents reported having over 30 years in their specified fields. The results revealed that only 3 out of 15 statements from the sample were deemed to have relatively mature or firm methodologies and data to enable inclusion in modern mathematical models for land use optimization. Of the three statements, two were related to economic sustainability, offering quantifiable information such as a non-declining flow of wood products over time and limits on the amount of timber harvested per decade. In contrast, sociocultural and, to some extent, ecological statements regarding sustainability were generally perceived to be more difficult to translate into mathematical modeling efforts. Particularly challenging were statements corresponding to sustaining natural or scenic characteristics of a forest. These findings may be attributed to various factors, including a lack of measurable indicators for sustainability and a potential lack of understanding about the modeling components and their interactions with planned management activities.
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    Sustainability language in forest management plans: a comparative analysis for public forests of the us and Turkey
    (2023) Vatandaşlar, Can; Bettinger, Pete; Garzon, Alba Rocio Gutierrez; Merry, Krista; Boston, Kevin; Lee, Taeyoon; Uzu, Joshua
    Forest management plans often suggest that economic, ecological, and/or social sustainability will be achieved if the proposed management actions are followed. Using forest plans developed by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Republic of Turkey, the purposes of this study were to (i) extract those statements that suggest sustainability will be achieved and (ii) assess whether there exist statistical differences between the two countries' plans and the emphases of the findings. A content analysis and non-parametric statistical tests were employed to measure the frequency of a set of terms related to sustainability and to estimate significant differences in the use of sustainability terms in the plans sampled. Results suggest that ecological aspects are dominant in forest plans from both countries. While silviculture, sustained yield, and multiple use were the most frequently used terms in Turkish plans, the occurrences of conservation and recreation were significantly higher in US plans (p < 0.001). These findings suggest that the differences in the plans' emphases could be attributable to the importance of Turkey's forests for the wood production-related needs of Turkish society, whereas US national forests might no longer be seen as an important wood supply base but instead have been given a more "passive" forest use.