Weighing trees with lasers: advances, challenges and opportunities

MI Disney, M Boni Vicari, A Burt, K Calders… - Interface …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is providing exciting new ways to quantify tree and forest
structure, particularly above-ground biomass (AGB). We show how TLS can address some …

Canopy clumping index (CI): A review of methods, characteristics, and applications

H Fang - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2021 - Elsevier
Canopy clumping index (CI) characterizes the spatial distribution of leaves or needles within
a vegetation canopy. CI is critical in determining the canopy radiation transfer …

A reinterpretation of the gap fraction of tree crowns from the perspectives of computer graphics and porous media theory

Y Zhu, D Li, J Fan, H Zhang, MP Eichhorn… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The gap fraction (GF) of vegetative canopies is an important property related to the
contained bulk of reproductive elements and woody facets within the tree crown volume …

Realistic forest stand reconstruction from terrestrial LiDAR for radiative transfer modelling

K Calders, N Origo, A Burt, M Disney, J Nightingale… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Forest biophysical variables derived from remote sensing observations are vital for climate
research. The combination of structurally and radiometrically accurate 3D “virtual” forests …

Performance of GEDI space-borne lidar for quantifying structural variation in the temperate forests of south-eastern Australia

S Dhargay, CS Lyell, TP Brown, A Inbar, GJ Sheridan… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Monitoring forest structural properties is critical for a range of applications because structure
is key to understanding and quantifying forest biophysical functioning, including stand …

Mapping plant area index of tropical evergreen forest by airborne laser scanning. A cross-validation study using LAI2200 optical sensor

G Vincent, C Antin, M Laurans, J Heurtebize… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Leaf area index estimates in dense evergreen tropical moist forest almost exclusively rest on
indirect methods most of which being of limited accuracy or spatial resolution. In this study …

Simulation of multi-platform LiDAR for assessing total leaf area in tree crowns

T Yun, L Cao, F An, B Chen, L Xue, W Li… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology has been increasingly
implemented to assess the biophysical attributes of forest canopies. However, LiDAR-based …

[HTML][HTML] Variability and bias in active and passive ground-based measurements of effective plant, wood and leaf area index

K Calders, N Origo, M Disney, J Nightingale… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
In situ leaf area index (LAI) measurements are essential to validate widely-used large-area
or global LAI products derived, indirectly, from satellite observations. Here, we compare …

A novel approach for retrieving tree leaf area from ground-based LiDAR

T Yun, F An, W Li, Y Sun, L Cao, L Xue - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Leaf area is an important plant canopy structure parameter with important ecological
significance. Light detection and ranging technology (LiDAR) with the application of a …

Reconstruction of a large-scale realistic three-dimensional (3-D) mountain forest scene for radiative transfer simulations

X Lin, A Li, J Bian, Z Zhang, G Lei… - GIScience & Remote …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The realistic three-dimensional (3D) forest scene is an important input to 3D radiative
transfer simulations, which are essential for analyzing the reflective properties of forest …