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How 'digital twins' could help predict the fate of a forest

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In his office at Michigan State University, forestry professor David Carter shows off an image of a virtual forest on his laptop. It's not just any forest. It's a computerized replica, or "digital twin," of a loblolly pine stand, created using lidar, the laser scanning technology that self-driving cars use to map their surroundings.

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