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

Large-scale variations in the dynamics of Amazon forest canopy gaps from airborne lidar data and opportunities for tree mortality estimates

(2021) Ricardo Dalagnol et al.   Scientific Reports

Hidden destruction of older forests threatens Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and challenges restoration programs

(2021) Marcos R. Rosa et al.   Science Advances

High tree diversity enhances light interception in tropical forests

(2021) Marina Melo Duarte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?

(2020) Matthew E. Fagan et al.   Conservation Letters

A Kernel-Driven BRDF Approach to Correct Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery over Forested Areas with Rugged Topography

(2020) Wen Jia et al.   Remote Sensing

Structural complexity and large‐sized trees explain shifting species richness and carbon relationship across vegetation types

(2020) Sylvanus Mensah et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Standardizing Ecosystem Morphological Traits from 3D Information Sources

(2020) R. Valbuena et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Measuring Individual Tree Diameter and Height Using GatorEye High-Density UAV-Lidar in an Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest System

(2020) Ana Paula Dalla Corte et al.   Remote Sensing

Aboveground Biomass Estimation in Amazonian Tropical Forests: a Comparison of Aircraft- and GatorEye UAV-borne LiDAR Data in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in Acre, Brazil

(2020) Marcus V. N. d’Oliveira et al.   Remote Sensing

Detecting successional changes in tropical forest structure using GatorEye drone‐borne lidar

(2020) Danilo Roberti Alves Almeida et al.   BIOTROPICA

Evaluating the potential of full‐waveform lidar for mapping pan‐tropical tree species richness

(2020) Suzanne M. Marselis et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Guidance for Successful Tree Planting Initiatives

(2020) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

African scientists leverage open hardware

(2020) Abdullahi Tsanni   NATURE

Neighbourhood‐mediated shifts in tree biomass allocation drive overyielding in tropical species mixtures

(2020) Joannès Guillemot et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Forest Landscape Restoration—What Generates Failure and Success?

(2020) Markus Höhl et al.   Forests

Supervised Segmentation of Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar for Large-Area Mapping of Individual Trees

(2020) Martin Krůček et al.   Remote Sensing

Benchmark maps of 33 years of secondary forest age for Brazil

(2020) Celso H. L. Silva Junior et al.   Scientific Data

Single-Pass UAV-Borne GatorEye LiDAR Sampling as a Rapid Assessment Method for Surveying Forest Structure

(2020) Gabriel Atticciati Prata et al.   Remote Sensing

Development and Performance Evaluation of a Very Low-Cost UAV-Lidar System for Forestry Applications

(2020) Tianyu Hu et al.   Remote Sensing

Optimizing the Remote Detection of Tropical Rainforest Structure with Airborne Lidar: Leaf Area Profile Sensitivity to Pulse Density and Spatial Sampling

(2019) Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida et al.   Remote Sensing

Tree species classification in tropical forests using visible to shortwave infrared WorldView-3 images and texture analysis

(2019) Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Global patterns and drivers of tree diversity integrated across a continuum of spatial grains

(2019) Petr Keil et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A general method for the classification of forest stands using species composition and vertical and horizontal structure

(2019) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

The effectiveness of lidar remote sensing for monitoring forest cover attributes and landscape restoration

(2019) D.R.A. Almeida et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Satellite time series can guide forest restoration

(2019) Joanne C. White et al.   NATURE

Monitoring the structure of forest restoration plantations with a drone-lidar system

(2019) D.R.A. Almeida et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Estimating below‐canopy light regimes using airborne laser scanning: An application to plant community analysis

(2019) Florian Zellweger et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Partitioning plant spectral diversity into alpha and beta components

(2019) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Monitoring forest structure to guide adaptive management of forest restoration: a review of remote sensing approaches

(2019) Nicolò Camarretta et al.   NEW FORESTS

Combining LiDAR and hyperspectral data for aboveground biomass modeling in the Brazilian Amazon using different regression algorithms

(2019) Catherine Torres de Almeida et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A new era in forest restoration monitoring

(2019) Danilo R. A. de Almeida et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data

(2019) Ovidiu Csillik et al.   Scientific Reports

Detection of Pine Shoot Beetle (PSB) Stress on Pine Forests at Individual Tree Level using UAV-Based Hyperspectral Imagery and Lidar

(2019) Qinan Lin et al.   Remote Sensing

Mapping forest structural heterogeneity of tropical montane forest remnants from airborne laser scanning and Landsat time series

(2019) Hari Adhikari et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Evaluating tropical forest classification and field sampling stratification from lidar to reduce effort and enable landscape monitoring

(2019) Daniel de Almeida Papa et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Both near-surface and satellite remote sensing confirm drought legacy effect on tropical forest leaf phenology after 2015/2016 ENSO drought

(2019) Nathan Borges Gonçalves et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Forest inventories for small areas using drone imagery without in-situ field measurements

(2019) Eetu Kotivuori et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A diagnostic for collaborative monitoring in forest landscape restoration

(2019) Manuel R. Guariguata et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Forest species diversity mapping using airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data in a subtropical forest in China

(2018) Yujin Zhao et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Characterization of indicator tree species in neotropical environments and implications for geological mapping

(2018) Cibele Hummel do Amaral et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Retrieving structural and chemical properties of individual tree crowns in a highly diverse tropical forest with 3D radiative transfer modeling and imaging spectroscopy

(2018) Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Mapping vegetation functional types in urban areas with WorldView-2 imagery: Integrating object-based classification with phenology

(2018) Jingli Yan et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Forest landscape restoration for livelihoods and well-being

(2018) James T Erbaugh et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Climate and soils determine aboveground biomass indirectly via species diversity and stand structural complexity in tropical forests

(2018) Arshad Ali et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Quantifying Changes on Forest Succession in a Dry Tropical Forest Using Angular-Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

(2018) Virginia Garcia Millan et al.   Remote Sensing

Ecological restoration modifies the value of biodiversity indicators in resident boreal forest birds

(2018) Martijn Versluijs et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

UAV lidar and hyperspectral fusion for forest monitoring in the southwestern USA

(2017) Temuulen Sankey et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy to map forest trait diversity and guide conservation

(2017) G. P. Asner et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of Airborne Lidar Pulse Density on Estimating Biomass Stocks and Changes in a Selectively Logged Tropical Forest

(2017) Carlos Silva et al.   Remote Sensing

Spatial complementarity in tree crowns explains overyielding in species mixtures

(2017) Laura J. Williams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The use of airborne hyperspectral data for tree species classification in a species-rich Central European forest area

(2016) Ronny Richter et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Mapping tree species in tropical seasonal semi-deciduous forests with hyperspectral and multispectral data

(2016) Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Discrimination of tropical forest types, dominant species, and mapping of functional guilds by hyperspectral and simulated multispectral Sentinel-2 data

(2016) Gaia Vaglio Laurin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Organismic Remote Sensing for Tropical Forest Ecology and Conservation1,2

(2015) Gregory P. Asner   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Silvicultural opportunities for increasing carbon stock in restoration of Atlantic forests in Brazil

(2015) Ana Paula C. Ferez et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mapping tropical forest canopy diversity using high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy

(2014) Jean-Baptiste Féret et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

(2014) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Above ground biomass estimation in an African tropical forest with lidar and hyperspectral data

(2014) Gaia Vaglio Laurin et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

(2014) Bryan Finegan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Importance of sample size, data type and prediction method for remote sensing-based estimations of aboveground forest biomass

(2014) F.E. Fassnacht et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Improving Species Diversity and Biomass Estimates of Tropical Dry Forests Using Airborne LiDAR

(2014) José Hernández-Stefanoni et al.   Remote Sensing

Evaluating Ecological Restoration Success: A Review of the Literature

(2013) Liana Wortley et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Tree Species Discrimination in Tropical Forests Using Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy

(2012) Jean-Baptiste Feret et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review

(2012) Michael A. Wulder et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Estimation of tropical rain forest aboveground biomass with small-footprint lidar and hyperspectral sensors

(2011) Matthew L. Clark et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges

(2010) Duccio Rocchini et al.   Ecological Informatics

Airborne spectranomics: mapping canopy chemical and taxonomic diversity in tropical forests

(2008) Gregory P Asner et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Possibilities of discriminating tropical secondary succession in Amazônia using hyperspectral and multiangular CHRIS/PROBA data

(2008) Lênio Soares Galvão et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation