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 …

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 …

Vegetation cover fraction (fCover) and related quantities are basic yet critical vegetation
structure variables in various disciplines and applications. Ground-and aerial-based …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing has opened the door to new
sources of data to effectively characterize vegetation metrics at very high spatial resolution …

The advent of lidar has revolutionized the way we observe and measure vegetation structure
from the ground and from above and represents a major advance toward the quantification …

Outdoor air pollution is considered as the most serious environmental problem for human
health, associated with some million deaths worldwide per year. Cities have to cope with the …

Individual mangrove tree parameters are necessary for the efficient management and
protection of this unique ecosystem, but to measure them using remote sensing (RS) is still a …

Leaf area index (LAI) is an important vegetation parameter. Active light detection and
ranging (LiDAR) technology has been widely used to estimate vegetation LAI. In this study …

Cities are particularly vulnerable to meteorological hazards because of the concentration of
population, goods, capital stock and infrastructure. Urban climate services require multi …

Cities measure the structure and function of their urban forest resource to optimize forest
management and the provision of ecosystem services. Measurements made using plot …