Forest Flows has started its second aerial campaign collecting remote sensing data!
October 31, 2022
This spring campaign, led by The University of Auckland's Dr Delwyn Moller, provides key soil moisture and forest canopy data from various sites across NZ. Remote sensing data are collected when the forested catchments are wet (spring) and dry (late summer) to prov...
Wireless soil moisture sensor deployment at Riverhead Forest
September 29, 2022
Last week, Research Leader Dean Meason worked with The University of Auckland colleagues installing Massachusetts Institute of Technology / USC SoilSCAPE wireless soil moisture sensors (https://soilscape.usc.edu/) at Riverhead Forest for the Rongowai...
Scion hosted Dr. Don White, Director and lead researcher of Whitegum Forest and Natural Resource Management for 6 weeks. He worked with inFact Limited and NIWA to develop and improved the novel integrated forest hydrology catchment model bespoke...
The Forest Flows Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour programme has successfully deployed TriOS Optical Sensors NICO nitrate sensor to continuously measure stream nitrate in NZ's planted forest catchments. These sensors will give us an unparall...
Thanks to the tireless work of Scion and NIWA field teams, Forest Flows has now 4 of the 5 primary research sites up and running! It is providing real time, big data data on water use, water retention, and water release from planted forest catchments in r...
2nd primary research site sensor network is now live
November 16, 2021
Scion's FlowLab IOT wireless sensor network for the 2nd primary research site is now live! It is providing real time data for the Forest Flows Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour programme.Once fully operational, the FlowLab wireless meshed ne...
"Generation One" Tree Ecophysiology Sensor Network
October 27, 2021
In this video a Scion Field Technical Officer is working at "Generation One" Tree Ecophysiology Sensor Network. This network of 270 electronic dendrometers, 28 sap flow flux sensors, and 15 soil moisture sensors was established in a radiata pine "Accelerator Trial"...
A new collaboration
October 27, 2021
This article talks about Scion's Forest Flows Programme collaboration with The University of Waikato's TAIAO Programme, led by Albert Bifet, to use cutting edge machine learning and artificial intelligence methodologies to analyse the Big Data being collected by thousan...
Prototype wireless network set up
October 26, 2020
The Forest Flows programme set up a prototype IOT wireless network to test the functionality of the novel FlowLab dataloggers designed by inFact Limited with the electronic dendrometer and METER Group TEROS11 soil moisture sensors. The wireless network an...
inFact Limited to develop novel wireless data loggers
October 25, 2020
Scion is pleased to announce that inFact Limited will be developing novel wireless data loggers for the MBIE Forest Flows programme. Their design of a large IOT wireless meshed data logger network that can operate in dense, steep forested catchments while collectin...
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