Review of optical-based remote sensing for plant trait mapping

L Homolová, Z Malenovský, JGPW Clevers… - Ecological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Plant trait data have been used in various studies related to ecosystem functioning,
community ecology, and assessment of ecosystem services. Evidences are that plant …

A review on hyperspectral remote sensing for homogeneous and heterogeneous forest biodiversity assessment

A Ghiyamat, HZM Shafri - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This review paper evaluates the potential of hyperspectral remote sensing for assessing
species diversity in homogeneous (non-tropical) and heterogeneous (tropical) forest, an …

Advances in hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation and agricultural crops

PS Thenkabail, JG Lyon, A Huete - … , Sensor Systems, Spectral …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Hyperspectral data (Table 1) is acquired as continuous narrowbands (eg, each band with 1
to 10 nanometer or nm bandwidths) over a range of electromagnetic spectrum (eg, 400 …

Carnegie Airborne Observatory-2: Increasing science data dimensionality via high-fidelity multi-sensor fusion

GP Asner, DE Knapp, J Boardman, RO Green… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) was developed to address a need for
macroscale measurements that reveal the structural, functional and organismic composition …

Mapping tree species composition in South African savannas using an integrated airborne spectral and LiDAR system

MA Cho, R Mathieu, GP Asner, L Naidoo… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Mapping savanna tree species is of broad interest for savanna ecology and rural resource
inventory. We investigated the utility of (i) the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) …

Mapping tree species in tropical seasonal semi-deciduous forests with hyperspectral and multispectral data

MP Ferreira, M Zortea, DC Zanotta… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Accurately mapping the spatial distribution of tree species in tropical environments provides
valuable insights for ecologists and forest managers. This process may play an important …

Tree species classification in a highly diverse subtropical forest integrating UAV-based photogrammetric point cloud and hyperspectral data

C Sothe, M Dalponte, CM Almeida, MB Schimalski… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of remote sensing data for tree species classification in tropical forests is still a
challenging task, due to their high floristic and spectral diversity. In this sense, novel sensors …

Estimation of tropical rain forest aboveground biomass with small-footprint lidar and hyperspectral sensors

ML Clark, DA Roberts, JJ Ewel, DB Clark - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2011 - Elsevier
Tropical forests are an important component of the global carbon balance, yet there is
considerable uncertainty in estimates of their carbon stocks and fluxes, which are typically …

Discrimination of tropical forest types, dominant species, and mapping of functional guilds by hyperspectral and simulated multispectral Sentinel-2 data

GV Laurin, N Puletti, W Hawthorne… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
To answer new scientific and ecological questions and monitor multiple forest changes, a
fine scale characterization of these ecosystems is needed, and could imply the mapping of …

Tree species discrimination in tropical forests using airborne imaging spectroscopy

JB Feret, GP Asner - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We identify canopy species in a Hawaiian tropical forest using supervised classification
applied to airborne hyperspectral imagery acquired with the Carnegie Airborne Observatory …