Teleforestry: The Application of Videoconferencing to Forestry

Videoconferencing is a rapidly growing industry servicing the demands of business, science and technology. It is cost-effective, convenient and flexible and is particularly suitable for forestry applications where frequent full motion televisual inputs from remote locations are required for meetings, management, technology transfer and education.This paper discusses how videoconferencing can improve the format and content of traditional face-to-face meetings. The author draws from his experiences at a major seminar on teleconferencing held in Amsterdam in May 1986.