PENNAL 2050, Bangor University and Forest Research are co-operating on a study to measure the amount of rainfall absorbed by the tree canopy cover in Pennal Forestry. This will allow for accurate modelling of differing scenarios of natural flood mitigation measures, planting and management regimes and variations in climatic conditions. This model, once validated for the Pennal catchment, will be able to be expanded for greater spatial scope across Natural Resources Wales forests throughout Wales. It will use LoRaWAN – a Long-Range Wide Area Network – designed to connect small
devices such as environmental sensors to the Internet so that real time data is easily accessible.
Newsletter 8: In the Forestry
