This MIT feasibility project investigates the opportunities of an innovation project for determining the biomass potential from local nature management and green maintenance using the publicly available Lidar point cloud of the Netherlands.

The results of this feasibility project may lead to an innovative logistics support service where producers and consumers who play a role in the local biomass chain (e.g. nature management organizations, regional governments, energy producers) are provided advice and insight in the stock and availability of local woody biomass suitable for district heating projects or other local energy projects and biobased applications.

In the planned development path, a prototype of this service will be developed, demonstrated, tested, and validated for a pilot area. Using segmentation and classification algorithms, individual trees will be identified and tree-specific parameters relevant to biomass determination will be extracted. The economic perspective and market potential will also be investigated and relevant literature will be reviewed.

Related publications

• 2020 - FutureWater Report 221Nolet, C., N. Spliethof. 2020. Bepaling van lokaal biomassapotentieel met de puntenwolk van het Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland 3. FutureWater Report 221.X

  Bepaling van lokaal biomassapotentieel met de puntenwolk van het Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland 3

  Nolet, C., N. Spliethof