Rapid advances that improve flood management have facilitated the disaster response by
providing first aid services, finding safe routes, maintaining communication and develo** …

Forest age is an important variable for assessments of biodiversity and habitat, sustainable
forest and land management, as well as forest carbon science and modeling. Tree and …

The measurement of forestry trials is a costly and time-consuming process. Over the past few
years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have provided some significant developments that …

Forest stand volume is a vital indicator of productivity and carbon storage. Conventionally,
stand volume is estimated from field samples, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and optical …

As an important vegetation canopy parameter, the leaf area index (LAI) plays a critical role in
forest growth modeling and vegetation health assessment. Estimating LAI is helpful for …

Prescribed fires have been applied in many countries as a useful management tool to
prevent large forest fires. Knowledge on burn severity is of great interest for predicting post …

Remotely sensed assisted forest inventory has emerged in the past decade as a robust and
cost efficient method for generating accurate information on forest biophysical parameters …

Biodiversity studies could strongly benefit from three-dimensional data on ecosystem
structure derived from contemporary remote sensing technologies, such as light detection …

While remote sensing can be an effective tool in building a forest inventory, field
measurements and model fitting can be both expensive and challenging. One strategy to …

ABSTRACT Forest Stock Volume (FSV) is one of the key indicators in forestry resource
investigation and management on local, regional, and national scales. Limited by the …