[HTML][HTML] Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation

T Gschwantner, I Alberdi, S Bauwens, S Bender… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wood resources have been essential for human welfare throughout history. Also nowadays,
the volume of growing stock (GS) is considered one of the most important forest attributes …

Tree species classification from complex laser scanning data in Mediterranean forests using deep learning

MJ Allen, SWD Grieve, HJF Owen… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology have enabled the automatic
capture of three‐dimensional vegetation structure at high resolution, but the scalability of …

[HTML][HTML] Large scale mapping of forest attributes using heterogeneous sets of airborne laser scanning and National Forest Inventory data

M Hauglin, J Rahlf, J Schumacher, R Astrup… - Forest Ecosystems, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background: The Norwegian forest resource map (SR16) maps forest attributes by
combining national forest inventory (NFI), airborne laser scanning (ALS) and other remotely …

Taper, volume, and bark thickness models for spruce, pine, and birch in Norway

E Hansen, J Rahlf, R Astrup… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Taper models, which describe the shape of tree stems, are central to estimating stem
volume. Literature provides both taper-and volume models for the three main species in …

Modelling some stand parameters using Landsat 8 OLI and Sentinel-2 satellite images by machine learning techniques: a case study in Türkiye

S Bulut, A Günlü, G Çakır - Geocarto International, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Remote sensing technologies have been extensively used in forest management in
predicting stand parameters. The goal of this study is to use Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 …

Towards open data sharing initiatives in the forestry sector: The example of the Italian National Forestry Information System (SINFor)

M Pecchi, G D'Amico, W Mattioli, M Sossai… - Forest Policy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The positive and transversal value of the forestry sector within the various international,
European and national policies related to sustainable development and mitigation and …

A new approach to small area estimation: improving forest management unit estimates with advanced preprocessing in a multivariate Fay–Herriot model

A Georgakis, VE Papageorgiou… - … An International Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Forest inventories are essential for informing sustainable forest management decisions, and
small area estimation (SAE) techniques aim to enhance the precision of these inventories …

Multisource forest inventories: A model-based approach using k-NN to reconcile forest attributes statistics and map products

A Sagar, C Vega, O Bouriaud, C Piedallu… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest map products are widely used and have taken benefit from progresses in the
multisource forest inventory approaches, which are meant to improve the precision of forest …

Interpreting the uncertainty of model-based and design-based estimation in downscaling estimates from NFI data: a case-study in Extremadura (Spain)

J Guerra-Hernández, B Botequim, S Bujan… - GIScience & Remote …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Remotely sensed data are increasingly used together with National Forest Inventory (NFI)
data to improve the spatial precision of forest variable estimates. In this study, we combined …

[HTML][HTML] Commercial forest carbon protocol over-credit bias delimited by zero-threshold carbon accounting

BDV Marino, N Bautista - Trees, Forests and People, 2022 - Elsevier
The validity of forest carbon offsets is increasingly called into question. However, despite the
use of commercial forest carbon protocols (CFCPs) for more than two decades, claiming∼ …