Remote sensing technologies for enhancing forest inventories: A review

JC White, NC Coops, MA Wulder… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Forest inventory and management requirements are changing rapidly in the context of an
increasingly complex set of economic, environmental, and social policy objectives …

A photogrammetric workflow for the creation of a forest canopy height model from small unmanned aerial system imagery

J Lisein, M Pierrot-Deseilligny, S Bonnet, P Lejeune - Forests, 2013 - mdpi.com
The recent development of operational small unmanned aerial systems (UASs) opens the
door for their extensive use in forest map**, as both the spatial and temporal resolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual constellations for global terrestrial monitoring

MA Wulder, T Hilker, JC White, NC Coops… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Free and open access to satellite imagery and value-added data products have
revolutionized the role of remote sensing in Earth system science. Nonetheless, rapid …

Alternatives to LiDAR-derived canopy height models for softwood plantations: a review and example using photogrammetry

C Stone, M Webster, J Osborn, I Iqbal - Australian Forestry, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Airborne LiDAR data is now commonly acquired by the Australian plantation sector in order
to generate accurate digital terrain models and canopy height models at high spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Updating stand-level forest inventories using airborne laser scanning and Landsat time series data

DK Bolton, JC White, MA Wulder, NC Coops… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vertical forest structure can be mapped over large areas by combining samples of airborne
laser scanning (ALS) data with wall-to-wall spatial data, such as Landsat imagery. Here, we …

Extraction of forest inventory parameters using handheld mobile laser scanning: A case study from Trabzon, Turkey

C Vatandaşlar, M Zeybek - Measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
Forest inventory (FI) surveys are cumbersome when field measurements are performed by
manual means. We propose a semi-automated data collection approach using handheld …

Map** forest age using National Forest Inventory, airborne laser scanning, and Sentinel-2 data

J Schumacher, M Hauglin, R Astrup, J Breidenbach - Forest ecosystems, 2020 - Springer
Background The age of forest stands is critical information for forest management and
conservation, for example for growth modelling, timing of management activities and …

Map** forest canopy height across large areas by upscaling ALS estimates with freely available satellite data

P Wilkes, SD Jones, L Suarez, A Mellor, W Woodgate… - Remote sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Operational assessment of forest structure is an on-going challenge for land managers,
particularly over large, remote or inaccessible areas. Here, we present an easily adopted …

Machine learning approaches for estimating forest stand height using plot-based observations and airborne LiDAR data

J Lee, J Im, K Kim, LJ Quackenbush - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Effective sustainable forest management for broad areas needs consistent country-wide
forest inventory data. A stand-level inventory is appropriate as a minimum unit for local and …

Laser vision: lidar as a transformative tool to advance critical zone science

AA Harpold, JA Marshall, SW Lyon… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
Observation and quantification of the Earth's surface is undergoing a revolutionary change
due to the increased spatial resolution and extent afforded by light detection and ranging …