Special Issue "UAV Applications for Forest Management: Wood Volume, Biomass, Mapping II"

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few years, UAV platforms have increasingly been selected for forestry applications using RGB, multispectral, thermal, and LiDAR sensors. Remote sensing using UAVs has a range of benefits such as reduced costs, flexibility in time and space, and high accuracy of data.

We are pleased to announce this Part II Special Issue of Remote Sensing, which will follow on from Part I. In this second edition, we are aiming to collect manuscripts on innovative applications deriving from the use of UAVs in studies focusing on forest inventory and forest management, as well as studies including, but not limited to, measuring forest canopy height and attributes, biomass estimation, mapping diseases , mapping forests and biodiversity, mapping canopy gaps, and forestry fire monitoring.

The goal is to publish any research studies that can contribute to the current state of the art and that may help to assess the challenges and potentials of new applications in the field of drones in forestry. Novelty improvements in methodologies, techniques, and data processing of UAV applications in the forestry sector are welcome. The prevailing use of drones in forestry applications is still at an exploratory stage, but with great potential for the future.

We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Mauro Maesano
Dr. Federico Valerio Moresi
Guest Editors

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• UAV
• drone
• remote sensing
• forest management
• forest inventory
• precision forestry