Digital Photogrammetry in Forestry: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
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: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 77
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forestry; GIS; remote sensing; photogrammetry; laser scanning
Interests: remote sensing; photogrammetry; laser scanning; hyperspectral imaging
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digital photogrammetry is a continuously evolving, dynamically developing, and efficient tool capable of capturing detailed spatial and spectral information on forests. Thanks to drones and the latest photogrammetry software products, the application of digital photogrammetry is becoming increasingly accessible in forestry practices as well. In this Special Issue, we seek research and publications that examine, further develop, and push the boundaries of digital photogrammetry in forestry applications, including aspects such as the following:
- Terrestrial photogrammetry, under- and over-canopy drone photogrammetry, and aircraft photogrammetry applications;
- Data fusion, aerial photogrammetry combined with laser scanning and/or satellite remote sensing, or time series analysis;
- Delineation of tree crowns, determination of tree heights, diameters, taper function, and curvatures of stems using aerial and/or terrestrial approach;
- Biomass and carbon stock estimation applications;
- Change detection and monitoring using multispectral, thermal imaging photogrammetry;
- Topographic and forest floor mapping, including forest roads, fallen dead trees, and saplings;
- Tree species detection from aerial and terrestrial images or from point cloud based on stem and crown shape;
- Latest image matching, segmentation, and classification techniques and their applications, including artificial intelligence, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and neural radiance fields (NeRFs);
- Automated photogrammetry systems for forest health, disturbance, fire, visitor, and wildlife monitoring.
Dr. Kornél Czimber
Dr. Péter Burai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital photogrammetry
- terrestrial
- airborne
- UAV/UAS
- stem detection
- crown delineation
- forest monitoring
- image matching
- artificial intelligence
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