UAV orthomosaic of Shree Manakamana Community Forest
Our work

When places change, we go and look.

Orthomosaic · Kawasoti · 4.4 cm GSD
Shree Manakamana CF · Kawasoti

A forest, seen stem by stem.

  • PeopleThe user group and the Division Forest Office, Nawalpur.
  • QuestionCan the forest be understood at individual-tree level to support its plan?
  • We addedLow-altitude UAV imagery, field plots, GIS and a locally retrained crown model.
  • Result6,543 crown detections reported at 4.4 cm (provisional; the four block counts sum to 6,309). 0.73 [email protected] against hand-annotated reference crowns in held-out plots. Detections are not a tree census.
  • What changedThe stem map and stand statistics went to the user group and the DFO in a form the operational plan can use.
  • UncertainDetections are not a census; the 0.73 mAP applies to this site and season only.
  • DataCrown polygons released openly; orthomosaic held for the CFUG.
Handover at the Division Forest Office, Nawalpur
Trishuli corridor · Nuwakot · 27 Aug 2026

The morning after the flood.

  • ChangeA glacier collapse sent a flash flood down the Trishuli; the channel through Nuwakot was rewritten overnight.
  • We didFlew Gairathok, Bidur-10 and Tupche within 24 hours: 16 georeferenced frames, released openly.
  • What changedThe imagery reached responders while they were still deciding where to go, and stays open for recovery work.
  • UncertainFrames, not an orthomosaic; coverage is partial and damage counts come from NDRRMA and HOTOSM, not from us.
Widened Trishuli channel through Nuwakot after the flood

How we know

The method, shown.

4.4cmground sample distance, UAV
0.73mAP @ IoU 0.50, field-validated
DeepForestretrained on Sal-dominated Nepali stands
Open formatsGeoTIFF · GeoJSON · CSV, with metadata
Individual tree crowns detected
Individual-tree detections
Stems per hectare surface
Stems per hectare
Crown-area distribution
Crown-area distribution
Training curve
Model training curve
Accuracy against reference crowns
Accuracy vs field crowns
Study area map
Study area · Nawalpur