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Forest Planning Lab
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The lab explores sustainable forest management through ground surveys and remote sensing.
AboutAbout the lab
Studying sustainable forest management in temperate and tropical forests.
The Forest Planning Lab conducts research on temperate and tropical forests, with sustainable forest management as its keyword.
Wood from forests supports people's lives as material for paper and construction and as energy in the form of firewood and charcoal.
Forests also play roles in biodiversity and carbon storage, so they need to be managed sustainably according to a variety of criteria.
Its main themes are evaluating forest management methods based on ground surveys and developing forest monitoring systems that use technologies such as remote sensing.
Key terms
- Remote sensing
- A technology for observing conditions on the Earth's surface from a distance. This lab uses it to observe forests.
- Selective logging
- A method of choosing and cutting only some of the trees in a forest. It is the counterpart of clear-cutting, which removes trees all at once.
- Clear-cutting
- A method of cutting all the trees in a given area at once.
NewsLab news
A student won the Student Poster Award at the Japanese Forest Society
Professor Mizoue received the Kyushu University Faculty of Agriculture Award
Professor Mizoue and Associate Professor Ota received the Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research on temperate and tropical forests, with sustainable forest management as its keyword. Its main themes are evaluating forest management methods based on ground surveys and developing forest monitoring systems that use technologies such as remote sensing.
*Illustrative imageGrowing and managing conifer plantations
The lab comprehensively evaluates the process of growing trees and the management systems in conifer plantations. Its keywords are selective logging, clear-cutting, productivity, and biodiversity.
*Illustrative imageSustainable forest management in Southeast Asia
The lab studies ways to manage forests sustainably in Southeast Asia. Its keywords are selective logging forestry, fast-growing tree plantation forestry, and community forestry.
*Illustrative imageData quality in forest monitoring
The lab studies quality assurance for the data obtained in forest monitoring and how to use that data effectively. Its keywords are precision, accuracy, error, and image analysis.
*Illustrative imageAssessing forest resources with remote sensing
The lab studies how to assess forest resources using remote sensing data. Its keywords are remote sensing and forest management.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Forest Planning Lab consist of professors, associate professors, and assistant professors.As of 2026
- ProfessorNobuya Mizoue
- Associate ProfessorTetsuji Ota
- Assistant ProfessorSantos D. Chicas
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Gunung Nuang summit forest canopy aerial view” Kay Du / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Growing and managing conifer plantations: “Conifer plantation - geograph.org.uk - 347052” Eric Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia: “Tropical rainforest 2, Koh Chang, Thailand” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Data quality in forest monitoring: “Conservationists learn how to inventory a forest” NRCS Oregon / Public domain (cropped)
- Assessing forest resources with remote sensing: “Bolivia satellite deforestation” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Agricultural Production System Design Lab): “Stubble field with tractor and other farm machinery - geograph.org.uk - 4683057” Trevor Littlewood / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Aquatic Environmental Biology Lab): “Red algae bloom, Boathaven Bay, Airlie Beach IMGP0273” John Robert McPherson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Production Control Lab (University Forests)): “Spring forest Yyteri 3” kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Soil Environmental Microbiology Lab): “Soil improvement - leaf cage, compost heap and wormery at Wisley” Rowan Adams / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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