Angle-count sampling (ACS) is an established method in forest mensuration and is
implemented in different National Forest Inventories (NFI). However, due to the lack of fixed …

The increasing demand for innovative forest management strategies to adapt to and mitigate
climate change and benefit forest production, the so-called Climate-Smart Forestry, calls for …

Mapping forest biomass is fundamental for estimating CO 2 emissions, and planning and
monitoring of forests and ecosystem productivity. The present study attempted to map …

Forests cover around one-third of the global land cover (4.03 billion hectares)(FAO 2010;
Pan et al. 2013) and are among the richest ecosystems in terms of biological and genetic …

We assessed the effectiveness of very high spatial resolution IKONOS imagery for mapping
a top invasive woody plant, Pittosporum undulatum, in a Protected Area in S. Miguel Island …

Background Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as one of the most promising
remote sensing technologies for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) in forests. Use of …

Abstract Knowledge of forest biomass is an essential parameter for managing the forest in a
sustainable way, as forest biomass data availability and reliability are necessary for forestry …

Maps of standing timber volume provide valuable decision support for forest managers and
have therefore been the subject of recent studies. For map production, field observations are …

Land-cover/land-use thematic maps are a major need in urban and country planning. This
paper demonstrates the capabilities of Object Based Image Analysis in multi-scale thematic …

Our research group has recently proposed a strategy to simulate net forest carbon fluxes
based on the coupling of a NDVI-driven parametric model, Modified C-Fix, and of a …