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 …

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

P Olofsson, GM Foody, M Herold, SV Stehman… - Remote sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The remote sensing science and application communities have developed increasingly
reliable, consistent, and robust approaches for capturing land dynamics to meet a range of …

Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

M Mugabowindekwe, M Brandt, J Chave… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Trees sustain livelihoods and mitigate climate change but a predominance of trees outside
forests and limited resources make it difficult for many tropical countries to conduct …

Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests

D Liu, T Wang, J Peñuelas, S Piao - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Restoring species diversity is proposed as a strategy to improve ecosystem resistance to
extreme droughts, but the impact of species diversity on resistance has not been evaluated …

[HTML][HTML] The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

M Santoro, O Cartus, N Carvalhais… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
The terrestrial forest carbon pool is poorly quantified, in particular in regions with low forest
inventory capacity. By combining multiple satellite observations of synthetic aperture radar …

[PDF][PDF] The European Atlas of Forest Tree Species: modelling, data and information on forest tree species

D De Rigo, G Caudullo, T Houston Durrant… - European atlas of …, 2016 - researchgate.net
The European Commission has recently published a Forest Strategy for the European Union
(see chapter “The European Union Forest Strategy and the Forest Information System for …

Tree related microhabitats in temperate and Mediterranean European forests: A hierarchical typology for inventory standardization

L Larrieu, Y Paillet, S Winter, R Bütler, D Kraus… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Tree related Microhabitats (hereafter TreMs) have been widely recognized as
important substrates and structures for biodiversity in both commercial and protected forests …

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

J Liang, JGP Gamarra, N Picard, M Zhou… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of
species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been …

[HTML][HTML] Data acquisition considerations for terrestrial laser scanning of forest plots

P Wilkes, A Lau, M Disney, K Calders, A Burt… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The poor constraint of forest Above Ground Biomass (AGB) is responsible, in part, for large
uncertainties in modelling future climate scenarios. Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) can be …

[HTML][HTML] Large-area mapping of Canadian boreal forest cover, height, biomass and other structural attributes using Landsat composites and lidar plots

G Matasci, T Hermosilla, MA Wulder, JC White… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Passive optical remotely sensed images such as those from the Landsat satellites enable
the development of spatially comprehensive, well-calibrated reflectance measures that …