UAV-supported forest regeneration: Current trends, challenges and implications

M Mohan, G Richardson, G Gopan, MM Aghai, S Bajaj… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Replanting trees helps with avoiding desertification, reducing the chances of soil erosion
and flooding, minimizing the risks of zoonotic disease outbreaks, and providing ecosystem …

Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles forest remote sensing—A systematic review. Part II: Research applications

R Dainelli, P Toscano, SF Di Gennaro, A Matese - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest sustainable management aims to maintain the income of woody goods for
companies, together with preserving non-productive functions as a benefit for the …

Development and performance evaluation of a very low-cost UAV-LiDAR system for forestry applications

T Hu, X Sun, Y Su, H Guan, Q Sun, M Kelly, Q Guo - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Accurate and repeated forest inventory data are critical to understand forest ecosystem
processes and manage forest resources. In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …

Monitoring restored tropical forest diversity and structure through UAV-borne hyperspectral and lidar fusion

DRA De Almeida, EN Broadbent, MP Ferreira… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Remote sensors, onboard orbital platforms, aircraft, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
have emerged as a promising technology to enhance our understanding of changes in …

Estimating forest structure from UAV-mounted LiDAR point cloud using machine learning

R Neuville, JS Bates, F Jonard - Remote sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Monitoring the structure of forest stands is of high importance for forest managers to help
them in maintaining ecosystem services. For that purpose, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

Forest inventory with high-density UAV-Lidar: Machine learning approaches for predicting individual tree attributes

AP Dalla Corte, DV Souza, FE Rex… - … and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The high dimensionality of data generated by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Lidar makes
it difficult to use classical statistical techniques to design accurate predictive models from …

Mobile 3D scan LiDAR: A literature review

F Di Stefano, S Chiappini, A Gorreja… - … , natural hazards and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper, by critically reviewing different years (from 2010 to 2020) of research activities
performed with Mobile Laser Scanning system, aims to review existing systems and how …

Existing and emerging uses of drones in restoration ecology

JM Robinson, PA Harrison, S Mavoa… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the absence of effective and scalable human intervention, up to 95% of the world's
ecosystems will be affected by anthropogenic degradation by 2050. Therefore, immediate …

LiDAR applications to estimate forest biomass at individual tree scale: Opportunities, challenges and future perspectives

D Xu, H Wang, W Xu, Z Luan, X Xu - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate forest biomass estimation at the individual tree scale is the foundation of timber
industry and forest management. It plays an important role in explaining ecological issues …

Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle forest remote sensing—A systematic review. Part I: A general framework

R Dainelli, P Toscano, SF Di Gennaro, A Matese - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural, semi-natural, and planted forests are a key asset worldwide, providing a broad
range of positive externalities. For sustainable forest planning and management, remote …