Tropical Forest Ecology Monitoring—New Techniques and Future Implications
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 110
Special Issue Editors
Interests: species diversity; forest restoration; spectral diversity; aerial biomass; digital aerial photogrammetry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: forest; REDD+; digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP); uas; drone; structure from motion (SfM); plot-level forest variables; AGB; forest inventory
Interests: species diversity; aerial biomass; digital aerial photogrammetry; light detection and ranging; remote sensing; forest management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tropical forests are home to the greatest diversity of forest species in the world. Monitoring the ecology and diversity of forest species in tropical forests has been a challenge. Traditional methods based on data collected manually in the field are time-consuming and expensive. In recent years, some technologies that use remote sensing, whether by passive sensors with satellite images or unmanned aerial vehicles, or by active sensors with light detection and ranging, have been used to monitor the structure and diversity of forest species. Combined with these technologies based on remote sensing, artificial intelligence techniques such as neural networks have been developed and can be used to monitor the ecology of tropical forests.
This Special Issue aims to provide selected contributions on advances and new techniques that have future implications for monitoring the ecology of tropical forests.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Light detection and ranging;
- Multi- and hyperspectral imaging;
- Artificial intelligence;
- Functional diversity;
- Carbon stock and aerial biomass;
- Species diversity;
- Forest management.
Prof. Dr. Milton Marques Fernandes
Dr. André Quintão de Almeida
Dr. Márcia Rodrigues de Moura Fernandes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- remotely operated vehicles
- tropical forests
- species diversity
- forest structure
- forest restoration
- climate change
- artificial intelligence
- forest management
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