Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions

FE Fassnacht, JC White, MA Wulder… - … An International Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Remote sensing has developed into an omnipresent technology in the scientific field of
forestry and is also increasingly used in an operational fashion. However, the pace and level …

The changing culture of silviculture

A Achim, G Moreau, NC Coops, JN Axelson… - Forestry, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Changing climates are altering the structural and functional components of forest
ecosystems at an unprecedented rate. Simultaneously, we are seeing a diversification of …

Close-Range Remote Sensing of Forests: The state of the art, challenges, and opportunities for systems and data acquisitions

X Liang, A Kukko, I Balenović… - … and remote sensing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote sensing-based forest investigation and monitoring have become more affordable
and applicable in the past few decades. The current bottleneck limiting practical use of the …

[HTML][HTML] Automated registration of wide-baseline point clouds in forests using discrete overlap search

O Pohjavirta, X Liang, Y Wang, A Kukko, J Pyörälä… - Forest Ecosystems, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest is one of the most challenging environments to be recorded in a three-dimensional
(3D) digitized geometrical representation, because of the size and the complexity of the …

Assessment of Carbon Sink and Carbon Flux in Forest Ecosystems: Instrumentation and the Influence of Seasonal Changes

D Lu, Y Chen, Z Feng, Z Wang - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Accurate measurement and estimation of forest carbon sinks and fluxes are essential for
developing effective national and global climate strategies aimed at reducing atmospheric …

Estimating the attributes of urban trees using terrestrial photogrammetry

H Sadeghian, H Naghavi, R Maleknia… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Today, different methods are used to measure two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional
(3D) attributes of trees. One of these methods, which is considered in recent years is using …

The effect of surrounding vegetation on basal stem measurements acquired using low-cost depth sensors in urban and native forest environments

J McGlade, L Wallace, B Hally, K Reinke, S Jones - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Three colour and depth (RGB-D) devices were compared, to assess the effect of depth
image misalignment, resulting from simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) error …

Drone data for decision making in regeneration forests: from raw data to actionable insights1

S Puliti, A Granhus - Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
In this study, we aim at developing ways to directly translate raw drone data into actionable
insights, thus enabling us to make management decisions directly from drone data. Drone …

An automated method for stem diameter measurement based on laser module and deep learning

S Wang, R Li, H Li, X Ma, Q Ji, F Xu, H Fu - Plant Methods, 2023 - Springer
Background Measuring stem diameter (SD) is a crucial foundation for forest resource
management, but current methods require expert personnel and are time-consuming and …

Advancing the application of remote sensing for forest information needs in Canada: Lessons learned from a national collaboration of university, industrial and …

NC Coops, A Achim, P Arp, CW Bater… - The Forestry …, 2021 - pubs.cif-ifc.org
The Canadian forest sector requires detailed information regarding the amount and
characteristics of the forest resource. To address these needs, inventory systems that …