Remote sensing technologies for enhancing forest inventories: A review

JC White, NC Coops, MA Wulder… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Forest inventory and management requirements are changing rapidly in the context of an
increasingly complex set of economic, environmental, and social policy objectives …

Review of methods of small‐footprint airborne laser scanning for extracting forest inventory data in boreal forests

J Hyyppä, H Hyyppä, D Leckie, F Gougeon… - … Journal of Remote …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Experiences from Nordic countries and Canada have shown that the retrieval of the stem
volume and mean tree height of a tree or at stand level from laser scanner data performs as …

Comparison of backpack, handheld, under-canopy UAV, and above-canopy UAV laser scanning for field reference data collection in boreal forests

E Hyyppä, X Yu, H Kaartinen, T Hakala, A Kukko… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this work, we compared six emerging mobile laser scanning (MLS) technologies for field
reference data collection at the individual tree level in boreal forest conditions. The systems …

Utility of multitemporal lidar for forest and carbon monitoring: Tree growth, biomass dynamics, and carbon flux

K Zhao, JC Suarez, M Garcia, T Hu, C Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lidar transforms how we map ecosystems, but its prospect for measuring ecosystem
dynamics is limited by practical factors, such as variation in lidar acquisition and lack of …

Remote sensing change detection tools for natural resource managers: Understanding concepts and tradeoffs in the design of landscape monitoring projects

RE Kennedy, PA Townsend, JE Gross… - Remote sensing of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Remote sensing provides a broad view of landscapes and can be consistent through time,
making it an important tool for monitoring and managing protected areas. An impediment to …

Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure

S Frolking, MW Palace, DB Clark… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abrupt forest disturbances generating gaps> 0.001 km2 impact roughly 0.4–0.7 million km2
a− 1. Fire, windstorms, logging, and shifting cultivation are dominant disturbances; minor …

Predicting individual tree attributes from airborne laser point clouds based on the random forests technique

X Yu, J Hyyppä, M Vastaranta, M Holopainen… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper depicts an approach for predicting individual tree attributes, ie, tree height,
diameter at breast height (DBH) and stem volume, based on both physical and statistical …

Automatic stem mapping using single-scan terrestrial laser scanning

X Liang, P Litkey, J Hyyppa, H Kaartinen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demand for detailed ground reference data in quantitative forest inventories is growing
rapidly, eg, to improve the calibration of the developed models of airborne-laser-scanning …

激光雷达森林参数反演研究进展

李增元, 刘清旺, 庞勇 - 遥感学报, 2021 - ygxb.ac.cn
激光雷达通过发射激光能量和接收返回信号的方式, 来获取高精度的森林空间结构和林下地形
信息. 全波形激光雷达通过记录返回信号的全部能量, 得到亚米级植被垂直剖面; …

Airborne laser scanning and digital stereo imagery measures of forest structure: Comparative results and implications to forest mapping and inventory update

M Vastaranta, MA Wulder, JC White… - Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has demonstrated utility for forestry applications and has
renewed interest in other forms of remotely sensed data, especially those that capture three …