UAV Applications for Forest Management: Wood Volume, Biomass, and Mapping (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2026 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
Interests: UAV; forest management; remote sensing; urban forest
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Interests: GIS; land use change; lidar; urban forestry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest ecosystems are critical in global carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable resource management. The accurate and efficient monitoring of forest parameters, such as wood volume, biomass, and spatial distribution, is essential for ecological studies, climate change mitigation, and sustainable forestry management. While reliable, traditional field-based forest inventory methods are often time-consuming, labour-intensive, and limited in scalability, particularly in remote or inaccessible areas.
This Special Issue seeks to gather innovative applications of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) in forest-related research. Contributions may focus on forest inventory and management, as well as studies involving forest canopy height measurement, attribute assessment, biomass estimation, disease detection, forest and biodiversity mapping, canopy gap analysis, and wildfire monitoring among other relevant topics
This Special Issue aims to showcase cutting-edge research on UAV-based approaches for forest assessment, emphasizing innovations in remote sensing techniques, machine learning applications, and data integration methods to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of forest resource management. Contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Wood volume and biomass estimation using UAV-derived data;
- High-resolution forest mapping for biodiversity and conservation;
- AI and deep learning for automated tree detection and health assessment;
- Multi-sensor fusion (LiDAR, hyperspectral, thermal) for improved forest analytics;
- UAV applications in wildfire risk assessment and post-fire recovery.
Dr. Mauro Maesano
Dr. Federico Valerio Moresi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UAV
- drone
- remote sensing
- forest management
- forest inventory
- precision forestry
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