An integrated UAV-borne lidar system for 3D habitat mapping in three forest ecosystems across China

Q Guo, Y Su, T Hu, X Zhao, F Wu, Y Li… - … journal of remote …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In recent decades, global biodiversity has gradually diminished due to the increasing
pressure from anthropogenic activities and climatic change. Accurate estimations of spatially …

Neural network-based modelling for forest biomass assessment

S Nandy, R Singh, S Ghosh, T Watham… - Carbon …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Forest biomass is an important parameter for assessing the status of forest ecosystems. In
the present study, forest biomass was assessed by integrating remotely-sensed satellite …

Quantifying biomass consumption and carbon release from the California Rim fire by integrating airborne LiDAR and Landsat OLI data

M Garcia, S Saatchi, A Casas… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying biomass consumption and carbon release is critical to understanding the role of
fires in the carbon cycle and air quality. We present a methodology to estimate the biomass …

Fine-resolution forest tree height estimation across the Sierra Nevada through the integration of spaceborne LiDAR, airborne LiDAR, and optical imagery

Y Su, Q Ma, Q Guo - International Journal of Digital Earth, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Forests of the Sierra Nevada (SN) mountain range are valuable natural
heritages for the region and the country, and tree height is an important forest structure …

Using Landsat time-series and LiDAR to inform aboveground forest biomass baselines in northern Minnesota, USA

RK Deo, MB Russell, GM Domke… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The publicly accessible archive of Landsat imagery and increasing regional-scale LiDAR
acquisitions offer an opportunity to periodically estimate aboveground forest biomass (AGB) …

Updating national forest inventory estimates of growing stock volume using hybrid inference

S Condés, RE McRoberts - Forest Ecology and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
International organizations increasingly require estimates of forest parameters to monitor the
state of and changes in forest resources, the sustainability of forest practices and the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of dominant forest tree species using quickbird and environmental data

A Abdollahnejad, D Panagiotidis, S Shataee Joybari… - Forests, 2017 - mdpi.com
Modelling the spatial distribution of plants is one of the indirect methods for predicting the
properties of plants and can be defined based on the relationship between the spatial …

Modeling biophysical properties of broad-leaved stands in the hyrcanian forests of Iran using fused airborne laser scanner data and ultraCam-D images

J Mohammadi, S Shataee, M Namiranian… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Inventories of mixed broad-leaved forests of Iran mainly rely on terrestrial measurements.
Due to rapid changes and disturbances and great complexity of the silvicultural systems of …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal analyses of urban vegetation structural attributes using multitemporal Landsat TM data and field measurements

Z Ren, R Pu, H Zheng, D Zhang, X He - Annals of Forest Science, 2017 - Springer
Key message We conducted spatiotemporal analyses of urban vegetation structural
attributes using multitemporal Landsat TM data and field measurements. We showed that …

Biomass production and carbon storage potential of selected old-growth temperate forests in Garhwal Himalaya, India

S Dimri, P Baluni, CM Sharma - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - Springer
Fifteen old-growth temperate forest types were assessed for biomass productivity and
carbon (C) storage potential by laying out sample plots randomly in each forest type along …