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Herbicide Resistance: Protecting the Tools We Still Have
Herbicide resistance is usually noticed when something stops working. A treatment that once delivered reliable control begins leaving survivors and attention quickly turns to what product should be...
From Reactive Weed Control to Proactive Vegetation Management
Evidence to Adoption examines how integrated vegetation management research has been translated into repeatable operational programs across Australian road, rail, open space and infrastructure asse...
A Self Improving Integrated Vegetation Management Program Supported by Satellite Intelligence
Utility vegetation management is increasingly moving beyond fixed maintenance cycles and into an era of continuous operational intelligence. That shift was strongly reinforced during a ROW14 presen...
Redefining Utility Vegetation Management in Urban Environments
One of the more practical operational sessions at ROW14 focused on redefining Utility Vegetation Management within urban environments. A presentation involving Central Maine Power and Lucas Tree ex...
Measuring Vegetation Management Program Performance Using Machine Learning and Imagery Analysis
One of the more operationally relevant presentations emerging from ROW14 focused on how machine learning and imagery analysis are increasingly being integrated into utility vegetation management pr...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Infrastructure Vegetation Management
One of the more significant themes emerging from ROW 14 was the increasing integration of artificial intelligence into mainstream infrastructure and environmental management workflows. While much o...
Technology Integration Is Becoming the Next Challenge in Utility Vegetation Management
A major theme emerging from the ROW14 Conference was that the utility vegetation management sector is rapidly moving beyond simply collecting data and is now entering a phase focused on operational...
Condition Based Utility Vegetation Management Is Moving From Theory to Operational Reality
One of the strongest operational discussions emerging from the ROW14 Conference came from Robert Vanderhoof from Arbormetrics, focusing on the transition from traditional cycle based vegetation man...
Drone, LiDAR and Remote Sensing Are Reshaping Utility Vegetation Management
One of the strongest technical presentations at the ROW14 Conference came from Dr Ashley Bennett from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), focusing on how drone imagery, LiDAR, satellite d...