Research on unmanned aerial vehicles is growing as they are becoming less expensive
and more available than before. The applications span a large number of areas and include …

The United States Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program has been monitoring national
forest resources in the United States for over 80 years; presented here is a synthesis of …

Remote sensing can be used to collect information related to forest management. Previous
studies demonstrated the potential of using multispectral satellite imagery for classifying tree …

Large areas of tropical lands are being removed from agriculture and restored to address
conservation goals. However, monitoring the ecological value of these efforts at the …

Forest mapping, one of the main components of performing a forest inventory, is an
important driving force in the development of laser scanning. Mobile laser scanning (MLS) …

The objectives of this study were to estimate above ground forest biomass and identify areas
disturbed by selective logging in a 1000ha Brazilian tropical forest in the Antimary State …

A harvester enables detailed roundwood data to be collected during harvesting operations
by means of the measurement apparatus integrated into its felling head. These data can be …

This study focuses on the evaluation of horizontal accuracy of smartphones for collecting
and using spatial data in forests in comparison with other Global Navigation Satellite …

Georeferencing field plots by means of GPS/GLONASS techniques is becoming compulsory
for many applications concerning forest management and inventory. True coordinates …

A forest inventory is often carried out using airborne laser data combined with ground
measured reference data. Traditionally, the ground reference data have been collected …