Monitoring forest structure to guide adaptive management of forest restoration: a review of remote sensing approaches

N Camarretta, PA Harrison, T Bailey, B Potts, A Lucieer… - New Forests, 2020 - Springer
With the demand for, and scale of, ecological restoration increasing globally, effectiveness
monitoring remains a significant challenge. For forest restoration, structural complexity is a …

Unlocking the potential of remote sensing in wind erosion studies: a review and outlook for future directions

L Lackoóvá, J Lieskovský, F Nikseresht, A Halabuk… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing (RS) has revolutionized field data collection processes and provided timely
and spatially consistent acquisition of data on the terrestrial landscape properties. This …

Integrating drone imagery with existing rangeland monitoring programs

JK Gillan, JW Karl, WJD van Leeuwen - Environmental monitoring and …, 2020 - Springer
The recent availability of small and low-cost sensor carrying unmanned aerial systems
(UAS, commonly known as drones) coupled with advances in image processing software …

Evaluating natural experiments in ecology: using synthetic controls in assessments of remotely sensed land treatments

SE Fick, TW Nauman, CC Brungard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many important ecological phenomena occur on large spatial scales and/or are unplanned
and thus do not easily fit within analytical frameworks that rely on randomization, replication …

UAV‐derived imagery for vegetation structure estimation in rangelands: validation and application

J Zhang, GS Okin, B Zhou, JW Karl - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study is to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)‐based remote
sensing method that can estimate vegetation indicators in arid and semiarid rangelands …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring spatially heterogeneous riparian vegetation around permanent waterholes: A method to integrate LiDAR and Landsat data for enhanced …

M Henriques, TR McVicar, KL Holland… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The vegetation dynamics in highly heterogeneous landscapes (eg, riparian vegetation
surrounding waterholes and oases) are difficult to detect from large (eg, MODIS) and …

Relationships between vegetation indices, fractional cover retrievals and the structure and composition of Brazilian Cerrado natural vegetation

MJ Hill, Q Zhou, Q Sun, CB Schaaf… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This study explores the use of the relationship between the normalized difference vegetation
index (NDVI) and the shortwave infrared ratio (SWIR32) vegetation indices (VI) to retrieve …

Pond dynamics yield minimal net loss of vegetation cover across an unditched salt marsh landscape

JAM Smith, M Pellew - Estuaries and Coasts, 2021 - Springer
Ponds in salt marshes are often misinterpreted as a symptom of degradation, yet ponds can
also be part of a cyclical process of pond formation, expansion, breaching by tidal creeks …

“Waffle” pools in ditched salt marshes: assessment, potential causes, and management

JAM Smith, SC Adamowicz, GM Wilson… - Wetlands Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Ditching is one of the most widespread forms of anthropogenic impact on tidal marshes but
its effects remain poorly understood. Recently, the phenomenon of “waffle” pooling has been …

Retrieving understorey dynamics in the Australian tropical savannah from time series decomposition and linear unmixing of MODIS data

Q Zhou, MJ Hill, Q Sun, CB Schaaf - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Retrieval from remote sensing of separate temporal dynamics for the understorey layer in
tropical savannahs would be beneficial for monitoring fuel loads, biomass for livestock …