LiDAR applications to estimate forest biomass at individual tree scale: Opportunities, challenges and future perspectives

D Xu, H Wang, W Xu, Z Luan, X Xu - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate forest biomass estimation at the individual tree scale is the foundation of timber
industry and forest management. It plays an important role in explaining ecological issues …

Understanding forest health with remote sensing-part I—a review of spectral traits, processes and remote-sensing characteristics

A Lausch, S Erasmi, DJ King, P Magdon, M Heurich - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all
scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …

Retrieval of forest structural parameters using LiDAR remote sensing

M Van Leeuwen, M Nieuwenhuis - European Journal of Forest Research, 2010 - Springer
In this paper, a literature overview is presented on the use of laser rangefinder techniques
for the retrieval of forest inventory parameters and structural characteristics. The existing …

Tree species classification and estimation of stem volume and DBH based on single tree extraction by exploiting airborne full-waveform LiDAR data

W Yao, P Krzystek, M Heurich - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
The paper highlights recent results of forest structure analysis at single tree level based on
analyzing airborne full waveform LiDAR data. Single trees are automatically detected by a …

Understanding forest health with remote sensing-part II—A review of approaches and data models

A Lausch, S Erasmi, DJ King, P Magdon, M Heurich - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Stress in forest ecosystems (FES) occurs as a result of land-use intensification, disturbances,
resource limitations or unsustainable management, causing changes in forest health (FH) at …

Tree species classification using plant functional traits from LiDAR and hyperspectral data

Y Shi, AK Skidmore, T Wang, S Holzwarth… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Plant functional traits have been extensively used to describe, rank and discriminate species
according to their variability between species in classical plant taxonomy. However, the …

PTrees: A point-based approach to forest tree extraction from lidar data

C Véga, A Hamrouni, S El Mokhtari, J Morel… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper introduces PTrees, a multi-scale dynamic point cloud segmentation dedicated to
forest tree extraction from lidar point clouds. The method process the point data using the …

Earth observation based monitoring of forests in Germany: a review

S Holzwarth, F Thonfeld, S Abdullahi, S Asam… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Forests in Germany cover around 11.4 million hectares and, thus, a share of 32% of
Germany's surface area. Therefore, forests shape the character of the country's cultural …

A comparative assessment of the performance of individual tree crowns delineation algorithms from ALS data in tropical forests

M Aubry-Kientz, R Dutrieux, A Ferraz, S Saatchi… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tropical forest canopies are comprised of tree crowns of multiple species varying in shape
and height, and ground inventories do not usually reliably describe their structure. Airborne …

Advances in forest inventory using airborne laser scanning

J Hyyppä, X Yu, H Hyyppä, M Vastaranta… - Remote sensing, 2012 - mdpi.com
We present two improvements for laser-based forest inventory. The first improvement is
based on using last pulse data for tree detection. When trees overlap, the surface model …