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SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A CLOSED CANOPY AND OPEN CANOPY FOREST IN NORTHERN SIERRA MADRE NATURAL PARK [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 Forest lands play crucial roles in nutrient recycling and climate regulation. The change of closed canopy forests to open canopy forests may indicate disturbance within the closed canopy forest.
C. Vidad +8 more
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PSOOptimizedFast Segmentation Algorithm for 3D Otsu Forest Canopy Image
Journal of Harbin University of Science and Technology, 2019 Forest canopy image segmentation is a key step to forest canopy parameters using digital image processing methods According to the characteristics of forest canopy fisheye images with complex background and high resolution, this paper proposed a PSO ...
ZHU Liang-kuan +3 more
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Forest canopy analysis in the Alpine environment: comparison among assessment methods
Forest@, 2013 Forest canopy analysis in the Alpine environment: comparison among assessment methods. Forest canopy is an important ecological feature of forest stands and can be expressed as Leaf Area Index (LAI) or canopy cover percentage.
Pastorella F, Paletto A
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Estimating Forest Canopy Height Using MODIS BRDF Data Emphasizing Typical-Angle Reflectances
Remote Sensing, 2019 Forest-canopy height is an important parameter for the estimation of forest biomass and terrestrial carbon flux and climate-change research at regional and global scales.
Lei Cui +9 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Investigating patterns of phylogenetic structure across different life stages of tree species in forests is crucial to understanding forest community assembly, and investigating forest gap influence on the phylogenetic structure of forest regeneration is
Yi Jin, Hong Qian, Mingjian Yu
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 Urban forests are critical infrastructure for mitigating environmental and social challenges cities face. Municipalities and non-governmental entities, among others, often set goals (e.g., tree planting or canopy targets) to support urban forests and ...
Michael L. Treglia +4 more
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Influence of voxel size on forest canopy height estimates using full-waveform airborne LiDAR data
Forest Ecosystems, 2020 Background Forest canopy height is a key forest structure parameter. Precisely estimating forest canopy height is vital to improve forest management and ecological modelling.
Cheng Wang +5 more
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Weak Environmental Controls of Tropical Forest Canopy Height in the Guiana Shield
Remote Sensing, 2016 Canopy height is a key variable in tropical forest functioning and for regional carbon inventories. We investigate the spatial structure of the canopy height of a tropical forest, its relationship with environmental physical covariates, and the ...
Youven Goulamoussène +5 more
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Health assessment of plantations based on LiDAR canopy spatial structure parameters
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2022 The Yellow River Delta (YRD) has China's largest artificial Robinia pseudoacacia forest, which was planted in the late 1970s and suffered extensive dieback in the 1990s.
Pengyu Meng +7 more
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Can increased training and awareness take forest research to new heights?
Trees, Forests and People, 2020 Forest canopies contribute significantly to global forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet are declining and understudied. One reason for a knowledge gap is that accessing forest canopies can be difficult and dangerous.
David L. Anderson +5 more
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