[HTML][HTML] Modelling lidar-derived estimates of forest attributes over space and time: A review of approaches and future trends

NC Coops, P Tompalski, TRH Goodbody… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Light detection and ranging (lidar) data acquired from airborne or spaceborne platforms
have revolutionized measurement and mapping of forest attributes. Airborne data are often …

Boreal forest health and global change

S Gauthier, P Bernier, T Kuuluvainen, AZ Shvidenko… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The boreal forest, one of the largest biomes on Earth, provides ecosystem services that
benefit society at levels ranging from local to global. Currently, about two-thirds of the area …

Carbon loss from boreal forest wildfires offset by increased dominance of deciduous trees

MC Mack, XJ Walker, JF Johnstone, HD Alexander… - Science, 2021 - science.org
In boreal forests, climate warming is shifting the wildfire disturbance regime to more frequent
fires that burn more deeply into organic soils, releasing sequestered carbon to the …

The ATL08 land and vegetation product for the ICESat-2 Mission

A Neuenschwander, K Pitts - Remote sensing of environment, 2019 - Elsevier
After being launched in September 2018, measurements from the ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and
land Elevation Satellite-2) will be available to the science community starting in the Spring of …

Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change

AD McGuire, DM Lawrence, C Koven… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
We conducted a model-based assessment of changes in permafrost area and carbon
storage for simulations driven by RCP4. 5 and RCP8. 5 projections between 2010 and 2299 …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy heights in boreal forests

A Neuenschwander, E Guenther, JC White… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) launched in the fall of 2018 and
is collecting vegetation canopy height and terrain measurements globally. In this paper we …

[HTML][HTML] Large-area mapping of Canadian boreal forest cover, height, biomass and other structural attributes using Landsat composites and lidar plots

G Matasci, T Hermosilla, MA Wulder, JC White… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Passive optical remotely sensed images such as those from the Landsat satellites enable
the development of spatially comprehensive, well-calibrated reflectance measures that …

Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

JUH Eitel, B Höfle, LA Vierling, A Abellán… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Capturing and quantifying the world in three dimensions (x, y, z) using light detection and
ranging (lidar) technology drives fundamental advances in the Earth and Ecological …

The importance of consistent global forest aboveground biomass product validation

L Duncanson, J Armston, M Disney, V Avitabile… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
Several upcoming satellite missions have core science requirements to produce data for
accurate forest aboveground biomass mapping. Largely because of these mission datasets …

Spatial distribution of forest aboveground biomass in China: Estimation through combination of spaceborne lidar, optical imagery, and forest inventory data

Y Su, Q Guo, B Xue, T Hu, O Alvarez, S Tao… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The global forest ecosystem, which acts as a large carbon sink, plays an important role in
modeling the global carbon balance. An accurate estimation of the total forest carbon stock …