Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Forest Environment Monitoring Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 23486
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Interests: lidar remote sensing (ALS, TLS, UAV-lidar, GEDI); tropical forest structure and ecology; industrial forest plantations, algorithms and tools development; data integration and change detection
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Interests: biogeochemistry; forest ecology; remote sensing; proximal sensing; UAVs; spectrometry
Interests: forest structure; tree architecture; structural complexity; LiDAR; structure from motion; structure-function-relationships
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests play an important role in climatic environments, ecosystem diversity, and the production of wood products, among others. At present, the technology used in forest assessment and forest management that utilizess multi-source remote-sensing data is becoming more and more complex, but due to the complexity of actual forest environments, some technologies still face technical difficulties in the production processes, and continuous innovation and breakthroughs are required.
Lidar technology has a wide range of applications in forestry and forest ecology, and new spaceborne lidars (GEDI and ICESat-2) can perform detailed measurements of vegetation vertical structures. Lidar and small hyperspectral sensors carried by drones offer more detailed datasets to researchers and play an important role in the calibration and validation of forest monitoring. The rapidly growing commercial imaging industry is also deploying constellations of small satellites, changing the way Earth is observed, with multi-platform sensing enabling near real-time, high spatial resolution, multispectral, hyperspectral and polarization interferometric SAR (PolInSAR) of the world's forests. Synthetic aperture radar remote-sensing technology also provides new methods, concepts and applications for forest biomass assessment and forest mapping.
These technologies have already had a significant impact on forest monitoring, but we hope that these multi-source remote-sensing technologies and data can be further mined and applied to forest remote sensing. In this Special Issue, we welcome a variety of new studies that use multi-source remote-sensing techniques for forest monitoring and that focus on the following topics:
- LiDAR point cloud processing in forests;
- SAR imaging for forest applications;
- Multi-platform LiDAR data fusion for tree modeling and 3D reconstruction;
- GEDI and ICESat-2 missions for forest inventory and monitoring;
- Tree species detection and individual tree detection;
- Application of new remote-sensing techniques to estimate forest aboveground biomass carbon storage and soil carbon storage;
- Integration of multi-temporal or multi-sensor data to detect dynamic changes in and distrubances of forest resources.
Dr. Carlos Alberto Silva
Dr. Enrico Tomelleri
Prof. Dr. Dominik Seidel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest monitoring
- forest ecosystem structure, composition, and dynamics
- aboveground biomass
- multi-sensor fusion
- lidar remote sensing
- polarimetric interferometric SAR
- hyperspectral imagery
- aerial photogrammetry
- multispectral optical remote sensing
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