Institutes Learn to Use Modern Technology to Map Trees

Employees of institutions that are directly or indirectly involved with the forest and the environment received a two-day training last week to learn how to use the ultramodern terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging scanner (Lidar). Following the field training, the ten trainees spent another two days learning how to digitally process the collected data. This high-tech device was donated to Suriname by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).…