CAFRI-NY
News & Research Highlights

News

2023

Researchers at ESF Build a Map-Based Carbon Accounting System to Help NYS Meet Net-Zero Goal

2022

October 24 | CAFRI Oak Barrel Project in the News

September 20 | Governor Hochul Announces New York State Awarded $60 Million in Federal Funds to Advance Smart Climate Practices for New York Farms and Forests

Research

2024

• Estimating merchantable and non-merchantable wood volume in slash walls using terrestrial and airborne LiDAR

2023

• Mapping historical forest biomass for stock-change assessments at parcel to landscape scales
• Forming regional soil carbon networks to support effective climate change solutions

2022

• Fine-resolution landscape-scale biomass mapping using a spatiotemporal patchwork of LiDAR coverages
• Ground-Truthing Forest Change Detection Algorithms in Working Forests of the US Northeast
• Filtering ground noise from LiDAR returns produces inferior models of forest aboveground biomass in heterogenous landscapes
• The Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Production in New York State from Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Systems

2021

• Carbon Cycling and Environmental Impacts from Growing, Harvesting, and Processing Forest Biomass in New York State