Individual tree detection from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) derived canopy height model in an open canopy mixed conifer forest

M Mohan, CA Silva, C Klauberg, P Jat, G Catts… - Forests, 2017 - mdpi.com
Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology and data processing capabilities
have made it feasible to obtain high-resolution imagery and three dimensional (3D) data …

LiDAR as a tool for assessing timber assortments: A systematic literature review

C Alvites, M Marchetti, B Lasserre, G Santopuoli - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Forest ecosystems strongly contribute to the mitigation of climate change impacts through
the carbon stored in forests and through harvested wood products, such as sawed wood and …

Acquisition of forest attributes for decision support at the forest enterprise level using remote-sensing techniques—A review

P Surový, K Kuželka - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, remote sensing techniques and the associated hardware and software
have made substantial improvements. With satellite images that can obtain sub-meter …

Comparison of linear regression, k-nearest neighbour and random forest methods in airborne laser-scanning-based prediction of growing stock

DN Cosenza, L Korhonen, M Maltamo… - … Journal of Forest …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In this study, for five sites around the world, we look at the effects of different model types
and variable selection approaches on forest yield modelling performances in an area-based …

Comparison of small-and large-footprint lidar characterization of tropical forest aboveground structure and biomass: a case study from Central Gabon

CA Silva, S Saatchi, M Garcia… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamic Investigation (GEDI) mission has been designed to
measure forest structure using lidar waveforms to sample the earth's vegetation while in orbit …

Improving individual tree crown delineation and attributes estimation of tropical forests using airborne LiDAR data

WS Wan Mohd Jaafar, IH Woodhouse, CA Silva… - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Individual tree crown (ITC) segmentation is an approach to isolate individual tree from the
background vegetation and delineate precisely the crown boundaries for forest …

Using airborne lidar, multispectral imagery, and field inventory data to estimate basal area, volume, and aboveground biomass in heterogeneous mixed species …

S Brown, LL Narine, J Gilbert - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) has proven to be a useful data source for
estimating forest inventory metrics such as basal area (BA), volume, and aboveground …

Beyond trees: Mapping total aboveground biomass density in the Brazilian savanna using high-density UAV-lidar data

MBT da Costa, CA Silva, EN Broadbent… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tropical savanna ecosystems play a major role in the seasonality of the global carbon cycle.
However, their ability to store and sequester carbon is uncertain due to combined and …

treetop: A Shiny‐based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists

CA Silva, AT Hudak, LA Vierling… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Individual tree detection (ITD) and crown delineation are two of the most relevant methods
for extracting detailed and reliable forest information from LiDAR (Light Detection and …

Crown-Level Structure and Fuel Load Characterization from Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning in a Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) Forest Ecosystem

KD Rocha, CA Silva, DN Cosenza, M Mohan… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Airborne Laser Scanners (ALS) and Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS) are two lidar systems
frequently used for remote sensing forested ecosystems. The aim of this study was to …