Imaging Sensors for Monitoring Forest Dynamics: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 16
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Interests: forestry information technology and equipment; precise pesticide application technology; phenotypic collection and analysis technology and platform; intelligent forestry machinery
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Interests: sensor-based plant phenotyping; optoelectronic sensor development in agriculture; VIS/NIR/MIR Spectroscopy; agricultural remote sensing and image analysis; precision agriculture and spatial statistics
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Interests: forestry phenomics; UAV remote sensing; machine learning; tree breeding
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Interests: machine learning; climate change; physiological ecology; forest monitoring
Interests: forestry; remote sensing; LiDAR; optimal imaging; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Imaging sensors and sensing technologies are used to collect data for the quantitative assessment of complex traits related to forest growth, phenology, performance, and adaptation to biotic or abiotic stress (disease, insects, drought, heat, and salinity). Technologies enabling the monitoring of forests are rapidly advancing, including visible, multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, and fluorescence imaging sensors, and 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR). The Special Issue collates research papers, reviews, and perspectives that highlight the potential and limitations of image sensor technology for forest monitoring, as well as discussing current and future applications in forest management and conservation. This Special Issue welcomes research on imaging sensors, image processing algorithms, imaging techniques, and their applications in forests.
Prof. Dr. Huichun Zhang
Prof. Dr. Yufeng Ge
Dr. Yanjie Li
Prof. Dr. Chunyan Wu
Dr. Cong (Vega) Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- imaging technique
- imaging sensor
- image process system
- forest dynamics
- monitoring
- remote sensing
- precision forestry
- machine learning
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