Special Issue "Modeling of Forest Structure and Dynamics"
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: closed (1 November 2019) | Viewed by 14662
Special Issue Editors

Interests: forest modeling; remote sensing; photogrammetry; 3-D modeling of vegetation; individual-based models; stochastic modeling
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Interests: remote sensing (primarily using active technologies, e.g. LiDAR); photogrammetry (digital aerial photography, structure from motion); Geographic Information Science (GIS); forest inventory and modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests are complex adaptive systems and their modelling involves substantial modeling challenges. In recent years, large datasets recording ecological variables have become widely available, e.g., forest inventories, and remote sensing vegetation surveys coupled with climatic datasets. These datasets provides opportunities to complement traditional experimental approaches with new generation predictive models of forest dynamics and data-driven discovery and hypothesis testing methods. These new approaches aim to evaluate vegetation and biochemistry dynamics at different spatial scales, from forests stands to the regional and continental scales. The underlying modeling challenges include three major components: (1) the use of individual-based models, as they are among the most suitable and promising tools for simulating complex-adaptive systems and interactions on multiple scales, (2) the development of different scaling methods that approximate individual-based processes, and (3) the investigation of various inverse problems to connect models with empirical data including imagery and 3D modeling. This Special Issue will provide a cross-disciplinary platform for foresters, ecologists, modelers, statisticians, and data analysts who are involved in forest modeling research.
Prof. Nikolay Strigul
Dr. Demetrios Gatziolis
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- forest modeling
- scaling of forest dynamics
- forest inventories
- data-intensive modeling
- individual-based models
- process-based models
- forest dynamics
- hierarchical patch dynamics
- remote sensing-based modeling