A review of practical ai for remote sensing in earth sciences

B Janga, GP Asamani, Z Sun, N Cristea - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques with remote sensing holds great potential for
revolutionizing data analysis and applications in many domains of Earth sciences. This …

[HTML][HTML] Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review

MA Wulder, JC White, RF Nelson, E Næsset… - Remote sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The ability to use digital remotely sensed data for forest inventory is often limited by the
nature of the measures, which, with the exception of multi-angular or stereo observations …

Assessment of forest structure using two UAV techniques: A comparison of airborne laser scanning and structure from motion (SfM) point clouds

L Wallace, A Lucieer, Z Malenovský, D Turner… - Forests, 2016 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to measure and
monitor structural properties of forests. Two remote sensing techniques, airborne laser …

The GEDI simulator: A large‐footprint waveform lidar simulator for calibration and validation of spaceborne missions

S Hancock, J Armston, M Hofton, X Sun… - Earth and Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a spaceborne lidar mission
which will produce near global (51.6° S to 51.6° N) maps of forest structure and above …

[HTML][HTML] Individual tree point clouds and tree measurements from multi-platform laser scanning in German forests

H Weiser, J Schäfer, L Winiwarter… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
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 inventory with high-density UAV-Lidar: Machine learning approaches for predicting individual tree attributes

AP Dalla Corte, DV Souza, FE Rex… - … and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The high dimensionality of data generated by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Lidar makes
it difficult to use classical statistical techniques to design accurate predictive models from …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual laser scanning with HELIOS++: A novel take on ray tracing-based simulation of topographic full-waveform 3D laser scanning

L Winiwarter, AME Pena, H Weiser, K Anders… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Topographic laser scanning is a remote sensing method to create detailed 3D point cloud
representations of the Earth's surface. Since data acquisition is expensive, simulations can …

Highly accurate tree models derived from terrestrial laser scan data: A method description

J Hackenberg, C Morhart, J Sheppard, H Spiecker… - Forests, 2014 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a method for fitting cylinders into a point cloud, derived from a terrestrial
laser-scanned tree. Utilizing high scan quality data as the input, the resulting models …

[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 …

Modelling forest canopy height by integrating airborne LiDAR samples with satellite Radar and multispectral imagery

M García, S Saatchi, S Ustin, H Balzter - International journal of applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spatially-explicit information on forest structure is paramount to estimating aboveground
carbon stocks for designing sustainable forest management strategies and mitigating …