Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical vegetation structural variable and is essential in the
feedback of vegetation to the climate system. The advancement of the global Earth …

Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of geography, forestry,
ecology, geographic information science, remote sensing, and photogrammetric …

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 …

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 …

Remote sensing of forest canopy cover has been widely studied recently, but little attention
has been paid to the quality of field validation data. Ecological literature has two different …

Leaf area index (LAI) is an important vegetation parameter. Active light detection and
ranging (LiDAR) technology has been widely used to estimate vegetation LAI. In this study …

This study explores the use of structure from motion (SfM), a computer vision technique, to
model vine canopy structure at a study vineyard in the Texas Hill Country. Using an …

Biomass fractions (total aboveground, branches and foliage) were estimated from a small
footprint discrete-return LiDAR system in an unmanaged Mediterranean forest in central …