Forestry Applications of DART Model
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 11018
Special Issue Editors
Interests: VIS / TIR radiative transfer modeling; optical remote sensing (imaging spectroradiometers, LiDAR) and radiative budget for forests, agriculture and cities.
Interests: leaf and canopy imaging spectroscopy of terrestrial vegetation; forward and inverse radiative transfer modelling of plant leaves and canopies; interpretation of multi-scale (drone/air-/space-borne) earth observations (machine learning); impact of globally changing climate on plant physiology, stress and functional diversity
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Interests: remote sensing of vegetation; biodiversity mapping; vegetation biophysical properties; imaging spectroscopy; tropical ecosystems; physical modeling; leaf traits
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Interests: radiative transfer modeling; LiDAR; imaging spectroscopy; multisensor system; UAV; chlorophyll fluorescence; energy balance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Scientific studies and operational monitoring of forest ecosystems increasingly rely on satellite, airborne and in situ proximal remote sensing observations, including innovative technologies of imaging spectroscopy and laser scanning (LiDAR). These non-invasive techniques provide information about spatial and temporal distribution of key forest biochemical and biophysical variables, such as contents of chemical foliage compounds and canopy architecture, which in turn improves our understanding of complex forest ecological and physiological processes. Yet, the inherent structural complexity of forests requires to scale leaf level information up to canopy or even ecosystem and biome level, which complicates interpretation of remote sensing data. Physically-based radiative transfer models are efficient tools to bridge this gap, provided that they meet a number of requirements and offer functionalities assuring acceptable models’ accuracy and performance. One of these requirements is an appropriate three dimensional (3D) geometrical and spatial description of sun, sensor, landscape and atmosphere features, for simulating accurate remote sensing acquisition and 3D radiative budget. The Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART) model fulfills this requirement, which explains its increasing use in forestry applications.
This Special Issue of Forests will overview the state-of-the-art use of DART in forestry research and applications. It will demonstrate the importance of physical 3D radiative transfer models for interpretation of remote sensing data, and will help to identify current gaps and future requirements for these models. Prospective authors are encouraged to document and share details of their work with DART in forest environments.
Dr. Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry
Dr. Zbynek Malenovsky
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Feret
Dr. Tiangang Yin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- DART
- forestry
- remote sensing
- radiative transfer modeling
- forest canopy architecture