Currently, climate change poses a global threat, which may compromise the sustainability of
agriculture, forestry and other land surface systems. In a changing world scenario, the …

Plant phenomics is a new avenue for linking plant genomics and environmental studies,
thereby improving plant breeding and management. Remote sensing techniques have …

Remote sensing can transform the speed, scale, and cost of biodiversity and forestry
surveys. Data acquisition currently outpaces the ability to identify individual organisms in …

Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of geography, forestry,
ecology, geographic information science, remote sensing, and photogrammetric …

Remote sensing is revolutionizing the way we study forests, and recent technological
advances mean we are now able–for the first time–to identify and measure the crown …

Abstract Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) product calibration and validation require ground
reference plots at hectometric scales to match space-borne missions' resolution. Traditional …

Understory plant communities are an integral component of deciduous forests, playing a
vital role in the overall health of the ecosystem. However, remote sensing of understory plant …

Accurate segmentation of individual tree crowns (ITCs) from airborne light detection and
ranging (LiDAR) data remains a challenge for forest inventories. Although many ITC …

Automated individual tree crown detection and delineation (ITCD) using remotely sensed
data plays an increasingly significant role in efficiently, accurately, and completely …

Accurate individual tree crown (ITC) segmentation from scanned point clouds is a
fundamental task in forest biomass monitoring and forest ecology management. Light …