Structural diversity and niche differences within habitats are important for stabilizing species
coexistence. However, land‐use change leading to environmental homogenization is a …

This article reviews the recent literature concerning airborne laser scanning for forestry
purposes in Italy, and presents the current methodologies used to extract forest …

Gap distributions in forests reflect the spatial impact of man-made tree harvesting or
naturally-induced patterns of tree death being caused by windthrow, inter-tree competition …

For estimation of tree parameters at the single-tree level using light detection and ranging
(LiDAR), detection and delineation of individual trees is an important starting point. This …

Forest canopy gaps are important to ecosystem dynamics. Depending on tree species, small
canopy openings may be associated with intra-crown porosity and with space among …

Understanding a disturbance regime such as gap dynamics requires that we study its spatial
and temporal characteristics. However, it is still difficult to observe and measure canopy …

The creation of gaps can strongly influence forest regeneration and habitat diversity within
forest ecosystems. However, the precise characteristics of such effects depend, to a large …

Automated feature extraction based on prototypes is only partially successful when applied
to remotely sensed imagery of natural scenes due to the complexity and unpredictability of …

Digital surface models (DSMs) are widely used in forest science to model the forest canopy.
Stereo pairs of very high resolution satellite and digital aerial images are relatively new and …

The importance of dead wood (coarse woody debris, CWD) for biodiversity in boreal forests
is high that is mainly due to its role in nutrient cycling and species habitation. Recognition of …