Hydrological effects of forest thinning have been studied at small watershed scales using the paired watershed approach since the 1920s. However, how forest transpiration, a critical component of evapotranspiration, changes decades after thinning is...
Wind is one of the major natural forest disturbances in Europe, and reduces the total economic (including carbon sequestration) value of forests. The aim of this study was to assess the financial benefit of silvicultural measures in young, pure, plan...
This study presents an attempt to discover the effect of sample size on the financial outcome derived by stand-level optimization with individual tree modeling. The initial stand structure was altered to reflect sparse, average, and dense Scots pine...
Wildfire in Siberia is extensive, affecting up to 15 Mha annually. The proportion of the vegetation affected by severe fires is yet unknown, and it is a problem that requires a solution because post-fire mortality of tree stands in Siberian taiga has...
Blind image deblurring (BID) is a long-standing challenging problem in low-level image processing. To achieve visually pleasing results, it is of utmost importance to select good image priors. In this work, we develop the ratio of the dark channel pr...
In forests, the growth and productivity of individual trees and stands as a whole are regulated by stand density among other factors, because access to vital resources is limited by competition between trees. On 18 experimental plots of Scots pine (P...
Ship wake detection stands as a pivotal task in marine environment monitoring. The main challenge in ship wake detection is to improve detection accuracy and mitigate false alarms. To address this challenge, a novel procedure for ship wake detection...
Thinning is an important way to adjust and optimize the spatial structure of forests. The study of its impacts support a better understanding of the succession process of secondary forests after interference. To study the changes in forest spatial st...
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) based stand level forest inventory has been used in Finland and other Nordic countries for several years. In the Russian Federation, ALS is not extensively used for forest inventory purposes, despite a long history of re...
Stand density is one among a multitude of factors impacting the growth of trees and their responses to climatic variables, but its effect on wood quality at the scale of anatomical structure is hardly investigated. Therefore, we analyzed the radial g...
Satellite-based estimates of vegetation structure capture broad-scale vegetation characteristics as well as differences in vegetation structure at plot-scales. Active remote sensing from laser altimetry and radar systems is regularly used to measure...
A comprehensive design framework is proposed for optimizing sparse MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) arrays to enhance multi-target detection. The framework emphasizes efficient utilization of antenna resources, including strategies for minimizi...
Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is a foundation species in eastern North American forests. Because eastern hemlock is a foundation species, it often is assumed that the diversity of associated species is high. However, the herbaceous layer of east...
Forest-canopy closure (FCC) reflects the coverage of the forest tree canopy, which is one of the most important indicators of forest structure and a core parameter in forest resources investigation. In recent years, the rapid development of UAV LiDAR...
Multimodal multiobjective optimization problems (MMOPs) are widely encountered in real-world applications. While numerous evolutionary algorithms have been developed to locate equivalent Pareto-optimal solutions, existing Multimodal Multiobjective Ev...
Understanding the structural characteristics of Pinus taiwanensis plantations in climatically transitional regions is essential for developing science-based management strategies under global change. This study investigated 23 plots in Huangbai Mount...
With the intensification of global climate change and human activities, coniferous species as the main components of natural forests in the Altay Mountains are facing the challenges of aging and regeneration. This study systematically analyzed struct...
In this paper, a novel hyperspectral anomaly detector based on low-rank representation (LRR) and learned dictionary (LD) has been proposed. This method assumes that a two-dimensional matrix transformed from a three-dimensional hyperspectral imagery c...
Shifting fire regimes alter forest structure assembly in ponderosa pine forests and may produce structural heterogeneity following stand-replacing fire due, in part, to fine-scale variability in growing environments. We mapped tree regeneration in ei...
Stress wave technology is very suitable for detecting internal defects of standing trees, logs, and wood and has gradually become the mainstream technology in this research field. Usually, 12 sensors are positioned equidistantly around the cross-sect...
Nietzsche’s sparse remarks on genealogy have left open significant questions as to what it is and where it stands in relation to philology, history, critique, and philosophy. By tracing Nietzsche’s associated conceptions of philology; cri...
Multilayer canopy representations are the most common structural stand representations due to their simplicity. Implementation of recent advances in technology has allowed scientists to simulate geometrically explicit forest canopies. The effect of s...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important part of the water, carbon, and energy cycles in ecosystems, especially in the drylands. However, due to the particularity of sparse vegetation, the estimation accuracy of ET has been relatively low in the dryla...
Seedling stands are mainly inventoried through field measurements, which are typically laborious, expensive and time-consuming due to high tree density and small tree size. In addition, operationally used sparse density airborne laser scanning (ALS)...
Tropical foothill forests are heterogeneous transition zones, yet field inventories remain sparse in the Andean–Amazonian region. We compared four forest stands to establish a local biodiversity baseline and determine whether tree diversity, fl...
European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) is a tree species widely distributed in Europe and the Asian part of the Near East. However, since European hornbeam is not very attractive for commercial purposes, scientific interest in this species has been...
The accurate and efficient 3D reconstruction of trees is beneficial for urban forest resource assessment and management. Close-range photogrammetry (CRP) is widely used in the 3D model reconstruction of forest scenes. However, in practical forestry a...
Near-field high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is mostly accompanied by a large number of data acquisition processes, which increases the system complexity and device cost. According to extensive reports, reducing the number of sam...
In, this study, we analysed the effects of thinning on stand structure and carbon stocks for a mixed conifer and broadleaf natural secondary forests in the Small Khingan Mountains, China. Stand structure and carbon stocks were assessed in trees from...
Dynamic landscape simulation of the forest requires an initial regeneration stock specific to the characteristics of each simulated stand. Forest inventories, however, are sparse with regard to regeneration. Moreover, statistical regeneration models...
Aboveground biomass (AGB) serves as a crucial indicator of the effectiveness of the Grain for Green Program (GGP), and its accurate estimation is essential for evaluating forest health and carbon sink capacity. However, due to the dominance of sparse...
(1) Background: A central subject in clonal plant ecology is to elucidate the mechanism by which clones forage resources in heterogeneous environments. Compared with studies conducted in laboratories or experimental gardens, studies on light foraging...
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Global products of leaf area index (LAI) usually show large uncertainties in sparsely vegetated areas because the understory contribution is not negligible in reflectance modeling for the case of low to intermediate canopy cover. Therefore, many effo...
The presence of dust in the intracluster medium (ICM) has been a long-standing problem that is still awaiting elucidation. Direct observational diagnostics are rather challenging (though not impossible) either because of a sparse distribution of dust...
Remote sensing-based woody biomass quantification in sparsely-vegetated areas is often limited when using only common broadband vegetation indices as input data for correlation with ground-based measured biomass information. Red edge indices and text...
Information from seedling stands in time and space is essential for sustainable forest management. To fulfil these informational needs with limited resources, remote sensing is seen as an intriguing alternative for forest inventorying. The structure...
The accurate large-scale classification of tree species is crucial for the monitoring, protection, and management of the Earth’s invaluable forest ecosystems. Numerous previous studies have recognized the suitability of satellite imagery, parti...
We mapped the extent of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) of Lake Iseo (Northern Italy, over the 2015–2017 period based on satellite data (Sentinel 2 A-B) and in-situ measurements; the objective was to investigate its spatiotemporal variabilit...
The Neural Engineering Framework (Eliasmith & Anderson, 2003) is a long-standing method for implementing high-level algorithms constrained by low-level neurobiological details. In recent years, this method has been expanded to incorporate more bi...
Forest height is of great significance in analyzing the carbon cycle on a global or a local scale and in reconstructing the accurate forest underlying terrain. Major algorithms for estimating forest height, such as the three-stage inversion process,...
Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis Hook.) is a native species west of the Rocky Mountains that has become noxious as its area increased ten times in the last 140 years. Restoration of the landscapes affected by the spread of juniper through harv...
Thermopile sensor arrays provide a sufficient counterbalance between person detection and localization while preserving privacy through low resolution. The latter is especially important in the context of smart building automation applications. Curre...
Aquaculture in tropical and subtropical developing countries has expanded in recent years. This practice is controversial due to its potential for serious economic, food security, and environmental impacts—especially for intensive operations in...
Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are reliant on Cladonia spp. ground lichens as a major component of their diet and lichen abundance could be an important indicator of habitat quality, particularly in winter. The boreal forest is typified...
This paper investigates the scattering of oblique water waves by multiple thin barriers over undulation bottoms using the eigenfunction matching method (EMM). In the solution procedures of the EMM, the bottom topographies are sliced into shelves sepa...
Modeling the effect of mutations on protein thermodynamics stability is useful for protein engineering and understanding molecular mechanisms of disease-causing variants. Here, we report a new development of the SAAFEC method, the SAAFEC-SEQ, which i...
Pine wilt disease (PWD) is a global destructive threat to forests which has been widely spread and has caused severe tree mortality all over the world. It is important to establish an effective method for forest managers to detect the infected area i...
Populus nigra ita. is an important tree species for preventing rainfall-triggered shallow landslides and hydraulic bank erosion in New Zealand. However, the quantification of its spatial root distribution and reinforcement remains challenging. The ob...
Data regarding older age bipolar disorder (OABD) are sparse. Two major groups are classified as patients with first occurrence of mania in old age, the so called “late onset” patients (LOBD), and the elder patients with a long-standing clinical histo...
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