Louisa Eurich
PhD Student, Division of Forest Remote Sensing
UAV multispectral imaging of spring phenology, vitality, and damage in Norway spruce breeding trials
Presentation
My background is in forestry, with prior experience combining remote sensing and damage assessment before starting my doctoral work. I am interested in how imaging technologies can make forest monitoring more efficient, scalable, and objective.
Research
My doctoral project is part of "Landscape Breeding: A New Paradigm in Forest Tree Management", an initiative rethinking how tree breeding can be conducted directly in commercial forests, accounting for real-world climatic and environmental variability.
Within that project, my research focuses on using high-resolution multispectral UAV imagery to assess bud flush timing, vitality, and damage in young Norway spruce trees, developing automated, scalable workflows for classifying individual trees.