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Measuring rainfall to a forest canopy: an assessment of the performance of canopy level raingauges [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2004
Accurate rainfall measurements are crucial for water resource and environmental assessments but can be difficult to achieve in extensive areas of forest. This paper reviews the different techniques for measuring rainfall to a forest area and presents
M. Robinson, M. Robinson, S. J. Grant, S. J. Grant, J. A. Hudson, J. A. Hudson, J. A. Hudson   +6 more
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ESTIMATING TREE CANOPY HEIGHT IN DENSELY FOREST-COVERED MOUNTAINOUS AREAS USING GEDI SPACEBORNE FULL-WAVEFORM DATA [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022
Tree canopy height is an important parameter for estimating forest carbon stock, and mountainous areas with dense vegetation cover are the main distribution areas of trees, so it is important to accurately measure the forest canopy height in mountainous ...
C. Liu, S. Wang
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Forest Canopy Height Mapping by Synergizing ICESat-2, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Topographic Information Based on Machine Learning Methods

Remote Sensing, 2022
Spaceborne LiDAR has been widely used to obtain forest canopy heights over large areas, but it is still a challenge to obtain spatio-continuous forest canopy heights with this technology.
Zhilong Xi, Huadong Xu, Yanqiu Xing, Weishu Gong, Guizhen Chen, Shuhang Yang   +5 more
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Predicting the Forest Canopy Height from LiDAR and Multi-Sensor Data Using Machine Learning over India

Remote Sensing, 2022
Forest canopy height estimates, at a regional scale, help understand the forest carbon storage, ecosystem processes, the development of forest management and the restoration policies to mitigate global climate change, etc.
Sujit M. Ghosh, Mukunda D. Behera, Subham Kumar, Pulakesh Das, Ambadipudi J. Prakash, Prasad K. Bhaskaran, Parth S. Roy, Saroj K. Barik, Chockalingam Jeganathan, Prashant K. Srivastava, Soumit K. Behera   +10 more
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Improving GEDI Forest Canopy Height Products by Considering the Stand Age Factor Derived from Time-Series Remote Sensing Images: A Case Study in Fujian, China

Remote Sensing, 2023
Forest canopy height plays an important role in forest resource management and conservation. The accurate estimation of forest canopy height on a large scale is important for forest carbon stock, biodiversity, and the carbon cycle. With the technological
Xiaocheng Zhou, Youzhuang Hao, Liping Di, Xiaoqin Wang, Chongcheng Chen, Yunzhi Chen, Gábor Nagy, Tamas Jancso   +7 more
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Analyzing Canopy Height Patterns and Environmental Landscape Drivers in Tropical Forests Using NASA’s GEDI Spaceborne LiDAR

Remote Sensing, 2022
Canopy height is a fundamental parameter for determining forest ecosystem functions such as biodiversity and above-ground biomass. Previous studies examining the underlying patterns of the complex relationship between canopy height and its environmental ...
Esmaeel Adrah, Wan Shafrina Wan Mohd Jaafar, Hamdan Omar, Shaurya Bajaj, Rodrigo Vieira Leite, Siti Munirah Mazlan, Carlos Alberto Silva, Maggie Chel Gee Ooi, Mohd Nizam Mohd Said, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud, Adrián Cardil, Midhun Mohan   +11 more
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Effect of leaf-on and leaf-off canopy conditions on forest height retrieval and modelling with ICESat-2 data

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) provides effective photon-counting light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for estimating forest height across extensive geographical areas.
Jialu Zhou, Yunyuan Deng, Sheng Nie, Jing Fu, Cheng Wang, Wenwu Zheng, Yue Sun   +6 more
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Modeling tree canopy height using machine learning over mixed vegetation landscapes

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2021
Although the random forest algorithm has been widely applied to remotely sensed data to predict characteristics of forests, such as tree canopy height, the effect of spatial non-stationarity in the modeling process is oftentimes neglected.
Hui Wang, Travis Seaborn, Zhe Wang, Christopher C. Caudill, Timothy E. Link   +4 more
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Estimates of Forest Canopy Height Using a Combination of ICESat-2/ATLAS Data and Stereo-Photogrammetry

Remote Sensing, 2020
Forest canopy height is an indispensable forest vertical structure parameter for understanding the carbon cycle and forest ecosystem services. A variety of studies based on spaceborne Lidar, such as ICESat, ICESat-2 and airborne Lidar, were conducted to ...
Xiaojuan Lin, Min Xu, Chunxiang Cao, Yongfeng Dang, Barjeece Bashir, Bo Xie, Zhibin Huang   +6 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, Caroline Bedeau, Laurent Descroix, Vincent Deblauwe, Laurent Linguet, Bruno Hérault   +5 more
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