Iván Raigosa-Garcia
Iván Raigosa-Garcia is originally from Medellín, Colombia. He began his forestry career at the National University of Colombia, where he earned a bachelor's degree in forestry engineering. He went on to complete a master’s degree in Forest Science at the University of Florida (UF), where his research focused on forest inventory using aerial light detection and ranging (LiDAR).
In 2022, Iván began his Ph.D. in Forest Science at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. His research focuses on understanding the productivity of loblolly pine plantations—particularly how productivity is measured, how it responds to fertilizer and herbicide treatments, and what this means for both net present value (NPV) and carbon management.
Iván is passionate about the applications of biometrics, soils, and remote sensing in forest productivity and carbon management optimization. He can be contacted by email: oiraigos@ncsu.edu.
Recent Publications:
Rethinking Productivity Evaluation in Precision Forestry through Dominant Height and Site Index Measurements Using Aerial Laser Scanning LiDAR Data (https://doi.org/10.3390/f15061002)
Assessing Methods to Measure Stem Diameter at Breast Height with High Pulse Density Helicopter Laser Scanning (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17020229)
Iván Raigosa-Garcia
Iván presenting his work, “Individual tree topographical position classification and its soil interaction in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) using LiDAR.”
