Globally, forests are a crucial natural resource, and their sound management is critical for
human and ecosystem health and well-being. Efforts to manage forests depend upon …

Forest management inventories (FMIs) provide critical information, usually at the stand level,
for forest management planning. A typical FMI includes (i) the delineation of the inventory …

Abstract Gatziolis, Demetrios; Andersen, Hans-Erik. 2008. A guide to LIDAR data acquisition
and processing for the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-768 …

Boreal mires encompass high diversity in species and habitats, many of which are
endangered. In Finland, extensive use of peatlands has resulted in habitat fragmentation. A …

Site productivity is essential information for sustainable forest management and site index
(SI) is the most common quantitative measure of it. The SI is usually determined for …

Spatially explicit mapping of forest productivity is important to assess many forest
management alternatives. We assessed the relationship between mapped variables and …

The aim of the study was to (1) examine the classification of forest land using airborne laser
scanning (ALS) data, satellite images and sample plots of the Finnish National Forest …

Good forest management requires comprehensive and reliable inventory data spanning
large areas. Forest management has increasingly relied on remote sensing, specifically light …

Sustainable forest management is hugely dependent on high-quality estimates of forest site
productivity, but it is challenging to generate productivity maps over large areas. We present …

Site index (SI), defined as stand dominant height at a given reference age, is a commonly
used measure of forest productivity. SI is typically estimated by applying species-specific …