Remote Sensing

Dr. Carlos Alberto Silva

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Forest Biometrics and Remote Sensing Lab (Silva Lab), School of Forest, Fisheriers and Geomatics Science, University of Florida, P.O. Box 110410, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: lidar remote sensing (ALS, TLS, UAV-lidar, GEDI); tropical forest structure and ecology; industrial forest plantations, algorithms and tools development; data integration and change detection
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Prof. Dr. Valerie A. Thomas

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Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Cheatham Hall, RM 307A, 310 West Campus Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: forest ecosystem remote sensing; forest disturbance; multitemporal analysis; LiDAR; imaging spectroscopy; data fusion
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Prof. Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

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Section Associate Editor

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Interests: hyperspectral; LiDAR; tropical environments; tropical dry forests; machine learning applied to earth observation; inverse modeling
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Dr. Lars T. Waser

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Section Associate Editor

Swiss National Forest Inventory, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zuercherstr. 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Interests: national forest inventory; spatially estimating forest parameters; tree species; growing stock; change detection; biodiversity; LiDAR; airborne and spaceborne; image-matching; canopy height model; land cover/land use change
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Dr. Jan Altman

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Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Science, 37901 Třeboň, Czech Republic
Interests: forest disturbances; tree growth; forest dynamics; tropical cyclones

Prof. Dr. Hans Andersen

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USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR 97205, USA
Interests: remote sensing; lidar; forest inventory; monitoring; sampling design

Prof. Dr. Heiko Balzter

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NERC National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, School of Geography, Geology and Environment, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Interests: land use and land cover; net zero transition; land surface modelling; terrestrial remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); forest biomass; deforestation monitoring; carbon cycle and climate change
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Dr. Luigi Boschetti

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Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
Interests: global biomass; burning remote sensing of fire; forest monitoring
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Dr. Kim Calders

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Computational & Applied Vegetation Ecology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: terrestrial and UAV based LiDAR; measurement and modelling of full 3D vegetation structure and how this is related to airborne or spaceborne remote sensing signals; radiative transfer modelling
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Dr. Leonor Calvo

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Area of Ecology, Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad de León, 24071 León, Spain
Interests: wildfire; resilience; post-fire regeneration
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Dr. Petya Campbell

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Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Branch, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Interests: forest ecology, vegetation function and photosynthesis; reflectance; fluorescence spectroscopy; biophysical and spectral observations; vegetation morphological and functional characteristics; stress responses of crops and forests; chlorophyll fluorescence; photosynthetic function; high spectral resolution time series; vegetation function and productivity

Prof. Dr. Lin Cao

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College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China
Interests: forest resource monitoring; forest phenotyping; biodiversity; LiDAR; UAV; satellite images
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Dr. Eric Casella

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Centre for Sustainable Forestry and Climate Change, Forest Research Agency, Farnham GU10 4LH, UK
Interests: monitoring and modelling of forest ecosystems; productivity and global change; applications of remote sensing to forest inventories; 3D and 4D functional-structural plant models

Prof. Dr. Gang Chen

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Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Environmental Change, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28277, USA
Interests: remote sensing; forest disturbances; GEOBIA; spatial ecology
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Prof. Dr. Guangsheng Chen

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1. College of Environment and Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
2. Ecosystem Dynamics and Global Ecology Laboratory, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36837, USA
Interests: forest disturbance and recovery detection; forest structure and biomass monitoring; artificial intelligence applications for remote sensing classification and geospatial analysis
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Prof. Dr. Qi Chen

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Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawaiˈi at Mānoa, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Interests: LiDAR remote sensing of vegetation; statistical learning; mathematical models; geospatial analysis
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Dr. Yuwei Chen

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Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, 02430 Masala, Finland
Interests: hyperspectral LiDAR; mobile mapping
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Prof. Dr. Gherardo Chirici

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GeoLAB—Laboratorio di Geomatica Forestale, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via San Bonaventura 13, 50145 Firenze, Italy
Interests: application of geomatics to forestry; remote sensing; forest inventories and monitoring; sustainable forest management; land planning; landscape ecology; biodiversity; forest fires and climate change; bio-geo-chemical models; decision support systems; forest ecology
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Prof. Dr. Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira

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Water Resources Department, Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju 49100-000, SE, Brazil
Interests: remote sensing; agrometeorology; environmental sciences
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Dr. Ramón Alberto Díaz-Varela

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Research Group BioAplic (Biodiversity and Applied Botany), Department of Botany, Higher Polytechnic Engineering School, University of Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain
Interests: vegetation structure mapping; vegetation dynamics; RPAS data analysis; multispectral remote sensing; biodiversity monitoring
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Prof. Dr. Huaqiang Du

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College of Environment and Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Interests: the remote sensing monitoring of bamboo forest resources; the remote sensing quantitative estimation of carbon cycle
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Dr. Sandra Eckert

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Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: remote sensing applications for an improved understanding of coupled human–environment systems; time-series analysis for monitoring and assessing invasive plant species; land use intensification; land degradation; forest degradation and deforestation
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Dr. Alfonso Fernández-Manso

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Applied Ecology and Remote Sensing Group, Agrarian Science and Engineering Department, University of León, Av. Astorga s/n, 24400 Ponferrada, Spain
Interests: forestry; wildfire; forest management; remote sensing; LiDAR
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Dr. Michael Gallagher

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USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 501 Four Mile Road, New Lisbon, NJ 08064, USA
Interests: wildland fire; prescribed fire; remote sensing; fire behavior; fire effects; fire severity
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Dr. Damiano Gianelle

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Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione E. Mach, Via E. Mach, 1, 38010 S. Michele all'Adige, TN, Italy
Interests: remote sensing; biogeochemical cycles; climate change; forest ecology; ecosystems functioning; carbon balance; plant traits
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Dr. Francois Girard

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Department of Geography, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: plant ecology; forest biogeography; geographic information systems and their applications; modelling and statistics; dendro-ecology and dendro-climatology
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Dr. Chandra Giri

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Office of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Interests: mangrove forests mapping and monitoring using high-resolution satellite data; global and continental land cover mapping and monitoring using multi-spectral, multi-temporal, and multi-platform remotely sensed data; image pre-processing, classification, and validation using cloud computing
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Dr. Eduardo Manuel Gonzalez Ferreiro

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Department of Mining Technology, Surveying and Infrastructure, GI 202 - GEOINCA, Campus of Ponferrada, University of León, 24401 Ponferrada, León, Spain
Interests: ALS; photogrammetry clouds; forest inventory; forest fires; forest monitoring; forest modeling
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Dr. Nancy E. Grulke

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Ecological Processes and Function, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Bend, OR 97701, USA
Interests: linkages between air pollution, drought, and increased forest susceptibility to wildfire; linkages between drought, stand density, physiological tree drought stress, and level of bark beetle attack; understanding environmental stressors (drought, elevated O₃ exposure) and growth enhancers (CO₂ enrichment, N deposition) on plant carbon and water balance

Prof. Dr. Qinghua Guo

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Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (IRSGIS), School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: remote sensing; lidar applications; GIS; UAV; climate change and terrestrial ecosystem
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