Climate change is changing our attitude to the need for forest data. Recently, it was published in Nature how many trees there are in the world. The estimate was based on 425 000 manually-measured field sample plots and satellite data, and they concluded that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion. Obviously, it would be scientifically important to have a technology in which all trees could be automatically counted and characterized, their growth would be automatically measured and their CO2 intake and carbon sequestration would be automatically measured in real-time, even hourly - with a minimum amount of manual measurements. According to present knowledge, this has been considered as quite impossible to implement due to lack of accurate data, lack of technology and lack of adequate field reference techniques. The objective is to develop that mapping technology using high-performance computing and by merging three different-scale laser scanning technologies

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