UAV-based forest health monitoring: A systematic review

S Ecke, J Dempewolf, J Frey, A Schwaller, E Endres… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, technological advances have led to the increasing use of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) for forestry applications. One emerging field for drone application is forest …

An overview of global leaf area index (LAI): Methods, products, validation, and applications

H Fang, F Baret, S Plummer… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical vegetation structural variable and is essential in the
feedback of vegetation to the climate system. The advancement of the global Earth …

Transfer learning in environmental remote sensing

Y Ma, S Chen, S Ermon, DB Lobell - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning (ML) has proven to be a powerful tool for utilizing the rapidly
increasing amounts of remote sensing data for environmental monitoring. Yet ML models …

[HTML][HTML] Review of indirect optical measurements of leaf area index: Recent advances, challenges, and perspectives

G Yan, R Hu, J Luo, M Weiss, H Jiang, X Mu… - Agricultural and forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Leaf area index (LAI) is a key parameter of vegetation structure in the fields of agriculture,
forestry, and ecology. Optical indirect methods based on the Beer-Lambert law are widely …

Remote sensing of forest insect disturbances: Current state and future directions

C Senf, R Seidl, P Hostert - … journal of applied earth observation and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Insect disturbance are important agents of change in forest ecosystems around the globe,
yet their spatial and temporal distribution and dynamics are not well understood. Remote …

Estimating leaf area index using unmanned aerial vehicle data: shallow vs. deep machine learning algorithms

S Liu, X Jin, C Nie, S Wang, X Yu, M Cheng… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Measuring leaf area index (LAI) is essential for evaluating crop growth and estimating yield,
thereby facilitating high-throughput phenotyping of maize (Zea mays). LAI estimation models …

Generalizing predictive models of forest inventory attributes using an area-based approach with airborne LiDAR data

M Bouvier, S Durrieu, RA Fournier… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study proposed modifying the conceptual approach that is commonly used to model
development of stand attribute estimates using airborne LiDAR data. New models were …

Retrieving leaf area index (LAI) using remote sensing: theories, methods and sensors

G Zheng, LM Moskal - Sensors, 2009 - mdpi.com
The ability to accurately and rapidly acquire leaf area index (LAI) is an indispensable
component of process-based ecological research facilitating the understanding of gas …

Airborne discrete-return LIDAR data in the estimation of vertical canopy cover, angular canopy closure and leaf area index

L Korhonen, I Korpela, J Heiskanen… - Remote Sensing of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of forest canopy cover has been widely studied recently, but little attention
has been paid to the quality of field validation data. Ecological literature has two different …

Mini-UAV-borne LIDAR for fine-scale mapping

Y Lin, J Hyyppä, A Jaakkola - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
recently are in rapid advancement, while mini-UAV-borne laser scanning has few reported …