The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

ETA Mitchard - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical forests make an approximately neutral contribution to the global carbon cycle, with
intact and recovering forests taking in as much carbon as is released through deforestation …

Remote sensing of forest degradation: a review

Y Gao, M Skutsch, J Paneque-Gálvez… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Forest degradation affects forest structure, composition and diversity, carbon stocks,
functionality and ecosystem processes. It is known to contribute significantly to global carbon …

Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

JUH Eitel, B Höfle, LA Vierling, A Abellán… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Capturing and quantifying the world in three dimensions (x, y, z) using light detection and
ranging (lidar) technology drives fundamental advances in the Earth and Ecological …

Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink

Y Yang, SS Saatchi, L Xu, Y Yu, S Choi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Amazon forests have experienced frequent and severe droughts in the past two decades.
However, little is known about the large-scale legacy of droughts on carbon stocks and …

Lidar detection of individual tree size in tropical forests

A Ferraz, S Saatchi, C Mallet, V Meyer - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Characterization of tropical forest trees has been limited to field-based techniques
focused on measurement of diameter of the cylindrical part of the bole, with large uncertainty …

Airborne lidar change detection: An overview of Earth sciences applications

U Okyay, J Telling, CL Glennie, WE Dietrich - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, airborne laser scanning (ALS) has found widespread application
and driven fundamental advances in the Earth sciences. With increasing availability and …

Aboveground biomass variability across intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon

M Longo, M Keller, MN dos‐Santos… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Deforestation rates have declined in the Brazilian Amazon since 2005, yet degradation from
logging, fire, and fragmentation has continued in frontier forests. In this study we quantified …

Estimation of forest biomass dynamics in subtropical forests using multi-temporal airborne LiDAR data

L Cao, NC Coops, JL Innes, SRJ Sheppard, L Fu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Estimating the change in the magnitude and distribution of forest biomass is important for
monitoring carbon dynamics and understanding the implications on the terrestrial carbon …

Estimating changes in forest attributes and enhancing growth projections: A review of existing approaches and future directions using airborne 3D point cloud data

P Tompalski, NC Coops, JC White… - Current Forestry …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The increasing availability of three-dimensional point clouds,
including both airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photogrammetry, allow for the …

[PDF][PDF] Aboveground woody biomass product validation good practices protocol

L Duncanson, J Armston, M Disney, V Avitabile… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Remote sensing (RS) studies aiming at map** forest biomass typically rely on ground-
based estimates of biomass for calibration or validation. Whatever the biophysical variable …