Arbor Analytics

Research-based, innovative, and customized

We support forestry companies and organizations by providing customized analytics.

This empowers organizations to make better decisions with their data.

Research-based, innovative, and customized

Arbor Analytics provides data and analytics consulting services for the forest products industry.

The type of thinning matters for future carbon stocks

The type of thinning, (e.g., from below, throughout, or above the diameter distribution), plays an important role in future forest carbon stocks.

Predicting the black swan: extreme event models

Extreme value analyses can quantify the distribution of intense events that have a very low probability of occurrence.

Accounting for defect when quantifying tree-level biomass

Field measurements that portray the defect of a tree can be used to dial in estimates of tree biomass and carbon.

Timber harvest trends in the northern US in the last 25 years

Historical data quantify the decrease in harvest volume in the past three decades.

How much does adding regeneration change FVS predictions?

Regeneration is not a component of many geographics variants of the FVS model, but including it can have a big impact on long-term predictions of forest carbon.