LiDAR in Animal Landscape Ecology Applications

In this month’s webinar, we hosted Evan Hockridge, a Ph.D. student at Harvard University’s Davies Lab. We discussed how his team is leveraging LiDAR data and thermal imaging to map the African savanna in order to better understand how wildlife and wildfires reshape the natural landscape. Evan explained how wildlife of all sizes, from large elephants to tiny termites, reshapes the landscape and has a profound impact on the overarching ecosystem.