Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are currently losing mass
rapidly with direct and severe impacts on the habitability of some regions on Earth as glacier …

Laser scanning from different acquisition platforms enables the collection of 3D point clouds
from different perspectives and with varying resolutions. These point clouds allow us to …

Forest planning, forest management, and forest policy require updated, reliable, and
harmonized spatial datasets. In Italy a national geographic Forest Information System (FIS) …

This paper introduces the CASINO (CAnopy backscatter estimation, Subsampling, and
Inhibited Nonlinear Optimisation) algorithm for above-ground biomass (AGB) estimation in …

Aim Map** tree species richness across the tropics is of great interest for effective
conservation and biodiversity management. In this study, we evaluated the potential of full …

Tropical secondary forests are ecosystems of critical importance for protecting biodiversity,
buffering primary forest loss, and sequestering atmospheric carbon. Monitoring growth and …

Maintaining newly re-established forests is an important policy and challenge for ecosystem
restoration and climate-change mitigation. However, a global assessment of canopy …

Effective solutions to conserve biodiversity require accurate community‐and species‐level
information at relevant, actionable scales and across entire species' distributions. However …

Abstract Wildfires in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) and other radioactively
contaminated areas threaten human health and well-being with the potential to resuspend …

The new-era space-borne LiDAR systems, viz. ICESat-2 and GEDI, offer new possibilities for
map** terrain and canopy heights through geophysical data products, viz ATL08 (ICESat …