Forests make up 34.1% of the Czech Republic total area and forest roads account for nearly
the same length (47,465 km) as all other roads administered by the state and its regions …

Individual tree attributes, such as stem volume and biomass, are usually predicted by using
traditional field-derived allometric models. However, these models are derived from data …

Dense unconventional shale gas extraction activities have occurred in Appalachian Ohio
since 2010 and they have caused various landcover changes and forest fragmentation …

The study was performed on two former sulphur mines located in Southeast Poland:
Jeziórko, where 216.5 ha of afforested area was reclaimed after borehole exploitation and …

On-the-ground sample-based forest inventory methods have been the standard practice for
more than a century, however, remote sensing technologies such as airborne laser …

Many applications in urban planning and analysis require the position and extent of
buildings, the so-called building footprint. Cadastral maps acquired by ground based …

The motivation for this study was to improve the consistency and accuracy, and increase the
spatial resolution of some of the supporting information to the forest monitoring system in …

Abstract Information on the shape and relief of the Earth's surface is essential for improving
land management practices that promote more sustainable development. Such a need for …

In this paper we present a method using airborne laser map** data to describe the vertical
structure of a coastal mangrove forest in southeastern Florida. Mangroves are critical to …

The objective in this study is to obtain the accurate tree crown model with complex structure
from airborne lidar data for latter feature extraction. The segmentation of tree crown was …