Applications of Laser Scanning and Satellite Images in Forest Mensuration—Series II
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: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 5854
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Interests: lidar remote sensing; spectral remote sensing; growth modeling; carbon budgeting; forest management; sensing of climate change signals
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Interests: image processing; pattern recognition; remote sensing; multimodal data fusion (fusion of hyperspectral and LiDAR data for image interpretation in remote sensing)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest mensuration is the key to gathering data and information on forest resources for forest planning and adaptive management. Fully developed forest mensuration schemes and technologies help us to formulate appropriate forest rules and regulations for sustainable forest management and support forest product needs. Taking advantage of state-of-the-art remote sensing technologies, forest information including tree-level parameters, stand-level attributes and structures, and ecosystem services can be measured or retrieved through UAV, airborne, and spaceborne platforms with high-resolution optical images and lidar data. Reliable data collection and analysis enable forest societies to conduct integrity procedures involving forest measurement, reporting, and validation (the MRV processes) with global consistency. This Special Issue intends to highlight the significance of applying lidar scanning and spectral sensing data to gather accurate forest information on MRV processes in plantation forests, secondary forests, and pristine forests. Techniques for retrieving tree parameters, stand attributes, and the structure of forest ecosystems for tropical, temperate, and boreal ecoregions are encouraged. Research on the application of optical sensing data (including RGB, multispectral, and hyperspectral images) and lidar sensing data (including UAV, airborne, and spaceborne data) at variant forest scales are most welcome.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- UAV/Airborne/Spaceborne technology for forest mensuration;
- Data processing;
- Tree parametrization;
- Stand attributes’ estimation;
- Species and forest type mapping;
- Stand dynamics;
- Forest degradation diagnosing;
- Plantation precision management;
- Secondary forest management;
- Ecosystem productivity;
- Adaptive management of forest ecosystems.
Prof. Dr. Chinsu Lin
Prof. Dr. Wenzhi Liao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- information extraction
- forest mapping
- forest evaluation
- stand structure
- forest monitoring
- MRV processes
- forest sustainability
- climate change
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