Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions

FE Fassnacht, JC White, MA Wulder… - … An International Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Remote sensing has developed into an omnipresent technology in the scientific field of
forestry and is also increasingly used in an operational fashion. However, the pace and level …

Remote sensing and forest inventories in Nordic countries–roadmap for the future

A Kangas, R Astrup, J Breidenbach… - … Journal of Forest …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The Nordic countries have long traditions in forest inventory and remote sensing (RS). In
sample-based national forest inventories (NFIs), utilization of aerial photographs started …

[HTML][HTML] Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation

T Gschwantner, I Alberdi, S Bauwens, S Bender… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wood resources have been essential for human welfare throughout history. Also nowadays,
the volume of growing stock (GS) is considered one of the most important forest attributes …

Mapping aboveground biomass and its prediction uncertainty using LiDAR and field data, accounting for tree-level allometric and LiDAR model errors

S Saarela, A Wästlund, E Holmström, AA Mensah… - Forest …, 2020 - Springer
Background The increasing availability of remotely sensed data has recently challenged the
traditional way of performing forest inventories, and induced an interest in model-based …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping site index in coniferous forests using bi-temporal airborne laser scanning data and field data from the Swedish national forest inventory

AA Mensah, J Jonzén, K Nyström, J Wallerman… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in remote sensing of forests have demonstrated the capabilities of
three-dimensional data acquired by airborne laser scanning (ALS) and, consequently, have …

[HTML][HTML] Taller and slenderer trees in Swedish forests according to data from the National Forest Inventory

AA Mensah, H Petersson, J Dahlgren… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes over time in annual basal area growth and mean height for Scots pine
(Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) over the period, 1983–2020 …

Spatially balanced sampling designs for environmental surveys

C Kermorvant, F D'amico, N Bru, N Caill-Milly… - Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
Some environmental studies use non-probabilistic sampling designs to draw samples from
spatially distributed populations. Unfortunately, these samples can be difficult to analyse …

Halton iterative partitioning: spatially balanced sampling via partitioning

B Robertson, T McDonald, C Price, J Brown - … and Ecological Statistics, 2018 - Springer
A new spatially balanced sampling design for environmental surveys is introduced, called
Halton iterative partitioning (HIP). The design draws sample locations that are well spread …

Resolution dependence in an area-based approach to forest inventory with airborne laser scanning

P Packalen, J Strunk, T Packalen, M Maltamo… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In an Area Based Approach (ABA) to forest inventories using Airborne Laser
Scanning (ALS) data, the sample plot size may vary or the cell size may differ from the plot …

Offering the appetite for the monitoring of European forests a diversified diet

JD Bontemps, O Bouriaud, C Vega, L Bouriaud - Annals of Forest Science, 2022 - Springer
Key message Forest monitoring in Europe is turning matter of renewed political concern,
and a possible role for ICP Forests health monitoring has been suggested to meet this goal …