Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J Xiao, F Chevallier, C Gomez, L Guanter… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

Use of remote sensing data to improve the efficiency of national forest inventories: A case study from the United States national forest inventory

AJ Lister, H Andersen, T Frescino, D Gatziolis… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Globally, forests are a crucial natural resource, and their sound management is critical for
human and ecosystem health and well-being. Efforts to manage forests depend upon …

Imputation of Individual Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) Tree Attributes from Field and LiDAR Data

CA Silva, AT Hudak, LA Vierling… - Canadian journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has demonstrated potential for forest
inventory at the individual-tree level. The aim in this study was to predict individual-tree …

The ICESat-2 laser altimetry mission

W Abdalati, HJ Zwally, R Bindschadler… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite and aircraft observations have revealed that remarkable changes in the Earth's
polar ice cover have occurred in the last decade. The impacts of these changes, which …

A bottom-up approach to segment individual deciduous trees using leaf-off lidar point cloud data

X Lu, Q Guo, W Li, J Flanagan - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) can generate three-dimensional (3D) point
cloud which can be used to characterize horizontal and vertical forest structure, so it has …

Satellite lidar vs. small footprint airborne lidar: Comparing the accuracy of aboveground biomass estimates and forest structure metrics at footprint level

SC Popescu, K Zhao, A Neuenschwander… - Remote Sensing of …, 2011 - Elsevier
The use of lidar remote sensing for mapping the spatial distribution of canopy characteristics
has the potential to allow an accurate and efficient estimation of tree dimensions and canopy …

Review of remote sensing-based methods for forest aboveground biomass estimation: Progress, challenges, and prospects

L Tian, X Wu, Y Tao, M Li, C Qian, L Liao, W Fu - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Quantifying forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is essential for elucidating the global carbon
cycle and the response of forest ecosystems to climate change. Over the past five decades …

Comparing canopy metrics derived from terrestrial and airborne laser scanning in a Douglas-fir dominated forest stand

T Hilker, M van Leeuwen, NC Coops, MA Wulder… - Trees, 2010 - Springer
Accurate estimates of vegetation structure are important for a large number of applications
including ecological modeling and carbon budgets. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) …

Characterizing forest canopy structure with lidar composite metrics and machine learning

K Zhao, S Popescu, X Meng, Y Pang, M Agca - Remote Sensing of …, 2011 - Elsevier
A lack of reliable observations for canopy science research is being partly overcome by the
gradual use of lidar remote sensing. This study aims to improve lidar-based canopy …

Earth science applications of ICESat/GLAS: A review

X Wang, X Cheng, P Gong, H Huang… - International journal of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) completed 19 successful campaigns
for Earth observation missions following its launch in 2003. The Geoscience Laser Altimeter …