Remote Sensing and Visualization Methods: Monitoring, Modeling, Simulations and Interaction of Forest Resource

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the development of intelligence and visualization technology, forestry is stepping into the smart age. This not only requires an accurate understanding of forest status, but also a grasp dynamic changes and mastery of future developments. It puts forward increasing requirements for efficient and high-precision monitoring, modeling, simulations and interactions of forest resources. Remote sensing, especially the recent fast development of Lidar, Oblique photography, UAV technology etc., provides a new possible means of large-scale high-precision modeling, such as 3D modeling, of the terrain, trees and environment. The combination of remote sensing and visualization methods allows for the integration of the virtual and reality and synchronization based on the digital twin technology. In the forestry metaverse, it can also conduct in-depth participation and interaction in the process of forest change and management. AI algorithms plays an important role in this process, which can make this modeling, interaction and participation process easy, convenient and efficient. This topic is of particular interest in monitoring and visualization simulations of forest resources, including remote sensing, artificial intelligence, modeling, virtual reality, digital twin; metaverse, interaction, big data, the internet of things and many others.

Prof. Dr. Huaiqing Zhang
Prof. Dr. Juan Suárez-Minguez
Prof. Dr. Qi Chen
Dr. Yunsheng Wang
Dr. Safa Tharib
Prof. Dr. Hua Sun
Prof. Dr. Weipeng Jing
Prof. Dr. Huaguo Huang
Prof. Dr. Ting Yun
Prof. Dr. Meili Wang
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