Importance of sample size, data type and prediction method for remote sensing-based estimations of aboveground forest biomass

FE Fassnacht, F Hartig, H Latifi, C Berger… - Remote sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Estimates of forest biomass are needed for various technical and scientific applications,
ranging from carbon and bioenergy policies to sustainable forest management. As local …

LiDAR applications to estimate forest biomass at individual tree scale: Opportunities, challenges and future perspectives

D Xu, H Wang, W Xu, Z Luan, X Xu - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate forest biomass estimation at the individual tree scale is the foundation of timber
industry and forest management. It plays an important role in explaining ecological issues …

Comparison of backpack, handheld, under-canopy UAV, and above-canopy UAV laser scanning for field reference data collection in boreal forests

E Hyyppä, X Yu, H Kaartinen, T Hakala, A Kukko… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this work, we compared six emerging mobile laser scanning (MLS) technologies for field
reference data collection at the individual tree level in boreal forest conditions. The systems …

A new method for segmenting individual trees from the lidar point cloud

W Li, Q Guo, MK Jakubowski… - … Engineering & Remote …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) has been widely applied to characterize the 3-
dimensional (3D) structure of forests as it can generate 3D point data with high spatial …

Individual tree crown segmentation directly from UAV-borne LiDAR data using the PointNet of deep learning

X Chen, K Jiang, Y Zhu, X Wang, T Yun - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate individual tree crown (ITC) segmentation from scanned point clouds is a
fundamental task in forest biomass monitoring and forest ecology management. Light …

Utility of multitemporal lidar for forest and carbon monitoring: Tree growth, biomass dynamics, and carbon flux

K Zhao, JC Suarez, M Garcia, T Hu, C Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lidar transforms how we map ecosystems, but its prospect for measuring ecosystem
dynamics is limited by practical factors, such as variation in lidar acquisition and lack of …

Forest inventory with high-density UAV-Lidar: Machine learning approaches for predicting individual tree attributes

AP Dalla Corte, DV Souza, FE Rex… - … and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The high dimensionality of data generated by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Lidar makes
it difficult to use classical statistical techniques to design accurate predictive models from …

Measuring individual tree diameter and height using GatorEye High-Density UAV-Lidar in an integrated crop-livestock-forest system

AP Dalla Corte, FE Rex, DRA Almeida, CR Sanquetta… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Accurate forest parameters are essential for forest inventory. Traditionally, parameters such
as diameter at breast height (DBH) and total height are measured in the field by level …

Generating pit-free canopy height models from airborne lidar

A Khosravipour, AK Skidmore… - … & Remote Sensing, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Canopy height models (CHMs) derived from lidar data have been applied to extract forest
inventory parameters. However, variations in modeled height cause data pits, which form a …

[HTML][HTML] An international comparison of individual tree detection and extraction using airborne laser scanning

H Kaartinen, J Hyyppä, X Yu, M Vastaranta, H Hyyppä… - Remote Sensing, 2012 - mdpi.com
The objective of the “Tree Extraction” project organized by EuroSDR (European Spatial data
Research) and ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) was …