Image to Image Deep Learning for Enhanced Vegetation Height Modeling in Texas
Remote Sensing, 2023 Vegetation canopy height mapping is vital for forest monitoring. However, the high cost and inefficiency of manual tree measurements, coupled with the irregular and limited local-scale acquisition of airborne LiDAR data, continue to impede its widespread
Lonesome Malambo, Sorin Popescu
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Challenges in Estimating Tropical Forest Canopy Height from Planet Dove Imagery [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 Monitoring tropical forests using spaceborne and airborne remote sensing capabilities is important for informing environmental policies and conservation actions. Developing large-scale machine learning estimation models of forest structure is instrumental in bridging the gap between retrospective analysis and near-real-time monitoring.
Ovidiu Csillik +2 more
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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen +15 more
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Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolInSAR) Technology Based on Full-Polarized ALOS/PALSAR Data [PDF]
, 2021 Forest canopy height is a basic metric characterizing forest growth and carbon sink capacity. Based on full-polarized Advanced Land Observing Satellite/Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (ALOS/PALSAR) data, this study used Polarimetric ...
Haibing Xiang +4 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid global expansion of photovoltaic (PV) solar facilities, now comprising nearly 80% of the recent and projected growth of renewable electricity, represents one of the most significant land‐use changes of the 21st century. While PV facilities are critical for decarbonising energy systems, their large spatial footprint and infrastructure
Tom Armstrong +4 more
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Validation of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy heights in boreal forests
Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 Abstract NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) launched in the fall of 2018 and is collecting vegetation canopy height and terrain measurements globally. In this paper we validate the terrain and canopy heights estimated from 11 months of ICESat-2 data using airborne lidar data collected in southern Finland. Overall, the terrain
Amy Neuenschwander +4 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini +13 more
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Species-specific forest variable estimation using non-parametric modeling of multi-spectral photogrammetric point cloud data [PDF]
, 2012 The recent development in software for automatic photogrammetric processing of multispectral aerial imagery, and the growing nation-wide availability of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, are about to revolutionize data capture for forest management ...
Fransson, Johan E.S. +3 more
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Forest Canopy Height Estimation by Integrating Structural Equation Modeling and Multiple Weighted Regression [PDF]
As an important component of forest parameters, forest canopy height is of great significance to the study of forest carbon stocks and carbon cycle status.
Xinyue Chang +5 more
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux +3 more
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