Download or read book Monitoring Tropical and Montane Forest Dynamics and Structure Using Remote Sensing written by Jonathan Asher Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Remote Sensing for Forest Monitoring written by Prem C. Pandey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Remote Sensing for Forest Monitoring An expert overview of remote sensing as applied to forests and other vegetation In Advances in Remote Sensing for Forest Monitoring, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an expansive and insightful discussion of the latest research on remote sensing technologies as they relate to the monitoring of forests, plantations, and other vegetation. The authors also explore the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and drones, as well as multisource and multi-sensor data – such as optical, SAR, LIDAR, and hyperspectral data. The book draws on the latest data and research to show how remote sensing solutions are being used in real-world settings. It offers contributions from researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of backgrounds and geographical regions to provide a diverse and global set of perspectives on the subject. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to forest monitoring using remote sensing including recent advances in remote sensing technology Comprehensive explorations of sustainable forest management to enhance ecosystem services and livelihood security using a geospatial approach Case studies of monitoring the biochemical and biophysical parameters of forests, including carotene and xanthophyll content Practical advice on how to apply machine learning tools to remote sensing data Perfect for postgraduates, lecturers, and researchers in the fields of environmental science, forestry, and natural resource management, Advances in Remote Sensing for Forest Monitoring will also earn a place in the libraries of professionals and researchers working with remote sensing technology.
Download or read book Land Surface Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Forest written by Nicolas Baghdadi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental and economic importance of monitoring forests and agricultural resources has allowed remote sensing to be increasingly in the development of products and services responding to user needs.This volume presents the main applications in remote sensing for agriculture and forestry, including the primary soil properties, the estimation of the vegetation’s biophysical variables, methods for mapping land cover, the contribution of remote sensing for crop and water monitoring, and the estimation of the forest cover properties (cover dynamic, height, biomass).This book, part of a set of six volumes, has been produced by scientists who are internationally renowned in their fields. It is addressed to students (engineers, Masters, PhD), engineers and scientists, specialists in remote sensing applied to agriculture and forestry.Through this pedagogical work, the authors contribute to breaking down the barriers that hinder the use of radar imaging techniques. Provides clear and concise descriptions of modern remote sensing methods Explores the most current remote sensing techniques with physical aspects of the measurement (theory) and their applications Provides chapters on physical principles, measurement, and data processing for each technique described Describes optical remote sensing technology, including a description of acquisition systems and measurement corrections to be made
Download or read book Remote Sensing of Tropical Regions written by Eugene A. Sharkov and published by . This book was released on 1998-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropical regions of the Earth play a crucial role in the evolution of the global thermodynamic surface-atmosphere system, and in the socio-ecological processes on our planet. The well known clichés describing the tropics as "the firebox of the atmosphere" and "the lungs of the planet" are not exaggerations. The principle purposes of this book are to demonstrate the unique capabilities of modern remote sensing techniques for the observation and monitoring of tropical ecosystems, and to substantiate the scientific rationale for studies of the Earth?s tropical regions. In the first part of this book, the author places particular emphasis on specific features of low-latitude conditions, such as tropical cyclones, mesoscale tropical systems, dynamical features in tropical oceans, and the temperature and humidity structure of the tropical atmosphere. Remote sensing of the tropics in the visual and infrared bands is severely limited by cloud cover, and for this reason microwave remote sensing is of great importance for observations of tropical systems. In the second part of this book, the author considers the basic principles of microwave sounding, and the role of both passive and active remote sensing methods for tropical ecosystem monitoring. He presents examples of applications in areas such as rainforest monitoring, crop mapping, population distribution, hydrology studies and the monitoring of biomass burning and active geodetic zones. The book concludes with a synopsis of the current status of operational satellite systems and future plans for tropical studies using remote sensing. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, meteorology, climatology, atmospheric physics, geophysics, oceanography, tropical agriculture and environmental science. Professional scientists, environmentalists and engineers concerned with tropical ecosystems, and government agencies and industries involved with management, planning and hazard assessment in tropical regions.
Download or read book Advances in Remote Sensing for Global Forest Monitoring written by Erkki Tomppo and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics of the book cover forest parameter estimation, methods to assess land cover and change, forest disturbances and degradation, and forest soil drought estimations. Airborne laser scanner data, aerial images, as well as data from passive and active sensors of different spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions have been utilized. Parametric and non-parametric methods including machine and deep learning methods have been employed. Uncertainty estimation is a key topic in each study. In total, 15 articles are included, of which one is a review article dealing with methods employed in remote sensing aided greenhouse gas inventories, and one is the Editorial summary presenting a short review of each article.
Download or read book Global Forest Monitoring from Earth Observation written by Frederic Achard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering recent developments in satellite observation data undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels, this book highlights operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems. It also tackles the technical issues surrounding the ability to produce accurate and consistent estimates of forest area changes, which are needed to report greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use changes. Written by leading global experts in the field, this book offers a launch point for future advances in satellite-based monitoring of global forest resources. It gives readers a deeper understanding of monitoring methods and shows how state-of-art technologies may soon provide key data for creating more balanced policies.
Download or read book 3D Remote Sensing Applications in Forest Ecology written by Hooman Latifi and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Colleagues, The composition, structure and function of forest ecosystems are the key features characterizing their ecological properties, and can thus be crucially shaped and changed by various biotic and abiotic factors on multiple spatial scales. The magnitude and extent of these changes in recent decades calls for enhanced mitigation and adaption measures. Remote sensing data and methods are the main complementary sources of up-to-date synoptic and objective information of forest ecology. Due to the inherent 3D nature of forest ecosystems, the analysis of 3D sources of remote sensing data is considered to be most appropriate for recreating the forest’s compositional, structural and functional dynamics. In this Special Issue of Forests, we published a set of state-of-the-art scientific works including experimental studies, methodological developments and model validations, all dealing with the general topic of 3D remote sensing-assisted applications in forest ecology. We showed applications in forest ecology from a broad collection of method and sensor combinations, including fusion schemes. All in all, the studies and their focuses are as broad as a forest’s ecology or the field of remote sensing and, thus, reflect the very diverse usages and directions toward which future research and practice will be directed.
Download or read book Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests written by Gianfranco D. De Grandi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely focused on specific techniques that provide multi-resolution spatial and temporal analysis of forest structure characteristics and changes. Examines several large and important international remote sensing projects aimed at documenting entire tropical ecosystems. Provides novel wavelet methods for tropical forest structural measures. Includes Python code for a suite of wavelet based time-series and single set InSAR coherence and backscatter speckle filters, available to download.
Download or read book Monitoring Seasonal and Secondary Succession Processes in Deciduous Forests Using Near surface Optical Remote Sensing and Wireless Sensor Networks written by Cassidy J. Rankine and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this thesis is to address the need for improved monitoring of forest ecosystem dynamics in the context of anthropogenic global change by proposing the use of near-surface optical remote sensing approaches paired with emerging wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies in order to evaluate changing forest seasonality and succession patterns, specifically in the semi-arid tropics and sub-tropics. Climate change is expected to affect terrestrial ecosystems through bottom-up control of primary productivity by extending or decreasing growing season length in seasonally photosynthetic vegetation. Human land use imposes top-down control over ecosystems by modifying disturbance regimes, with subsequent ecosystem regeneration depending on land use policy and management. The interplay between bottom-up climate forces and top-down anthropogenic forces on tropical dry forest (TDF) ecosystem recovery and productivity is poorly understood and is an underlying theme in this thesis. As such, this thesis introduces and assesses the novel application of WSN technology for spatio-temporal micrometeorological characterization and near-surface optical remote sensing of deciduous broadleaf forest canopy photosynthetic dynamics. The results reveal major benefits as well as challenges in the synergistic use of optical in-situ and satellite observation platforms for monitoring leaf phenology and secondary succession processes in deciduous forests, with case studies from the boreal and tropical dry broadleaf forests. Chapter one reviews the motivations behind the methods and experiments presented in this thesis. Chapter two reveals how low-power wireless data transmission is influenced by seasonal changes in boreal forest leaf phenology and weather conditions to help improve WSN designs for forestry applications. Chapter three describes local meteorological drivers of leaf phenology in detail for a Brazilian TDF in the state of Minas Gerais, and further explores how sub-canopy climate moderation effects are influenced by secondary forest stand age and extreme drought seasonality in order to characterize TDF microclimatic ecosystem services and better understand drought risk factors for seedling establishment and tree recruitment in future TDFs. Chapter four investigates the correlations between remotely sensed and near-surface hyper-temporal observations of TDF phenology in the context of future change detection for climate driven shifts in TDF productivity, revealing significant limitations in MODIS vegetation greenness time series for phenology monitoring in TDFs. Finally, chapter five reviews the significance and main contributions of these experiments. The experimental results presented here may be specific to tropical dry and boreal forest ecosystems, but the methods and ideas apply to all forest ecosystems in order to improve environmental monitoring technologies and our understanding of vegetation seasonality and secondary forest succession in our rapidly changing global environment.
Download or read book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Tropical and Sub Tropical Forests written by Margaret Kalacska and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While frequently used in temperate environments, hyperspectral sensors and data are still a novelty in the tropics. Exploring the potential of hyperspectral remote sensing for assessing ecosystem characteristics, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Tropical and Sub-Tropical Forests focuses on the complex and unique set of challenges involved in using t
Download or read book Monitoring Tropical Forest Dynamics Using Landsat Time Series and Community based Data written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning written by Matti Maltamo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as one of the most promising remote sensing technologies to provide data for research and operational applications in a wide range of disciplines related to management of forest ecosystems. This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the research and application of ALS in a broad range of forest-related disciplines, especially forest inventory and forest ecology. However, this book is more than just a collection of individual contributions – it consists of a well-composed blend of chapters dealing with fundamental methodological issues and contributions reviewing and illustrating the use of ALS within various domains of application. The reviews provide a comprehensive and unique overview of recent research and applications that researchers, students and practitioners in forest remote sensing and forest ecosystem assessment should consider as a useful reference text.
Download or read book The Use of Remote Sensing in the Modeling of Forest Productivity written by H.L. Gholz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests comprise the greatest storage of carbon on land, provide fuel for millions, are the habitat for most terrestrial biodiversity, and are critical to the economies of many countries. Yet changes in the extent and dynamics of forests are inherently difficult to detect and quantify. Remote sensing technologies may facilitate the measurement of some key forest properties which, when combined with other information contained in various computer models, may allow for the quantification of critical forest functions. This book explores how remote sensing and computer modeling can be combined to estimate changes in the carbon storage, or productivity, of forests - from the level of the leaf to the level of the globe. Land managers, researchers, policy makers and students will all find stimulating discussions among an international set of experts at the cutting edge of the interface between science, technology and management.
Download or read book Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management written by Steven E. Franklin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-06-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As remote sensing data and methods have become increasingly complex and varied - and increasingly reliable - so have their uses in forest management. New algorithms have been developed in virtually every aspect of image analysis, from classification to enhancements to estimating parameters. Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management reviews t
Download or read book Forest Biodiversity in North Central and South America and the Caribbean Research and Monitoring written by J.A. Comiskey and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two high-level, data-rich volumes from the massive Smithsonian/MAB Biological Diversity Program documenting the latest findings on forest biodiversity. In original contributions, some three hundred scientists from over forty countries discuss socioeconomic aspects, ecological monitoring and assessment, forest dynamics, growth trends, dry forests, species richness of woody regeneration and of vascular plants, hurricane impact, tropical cloud forests, Landsat-TM satellite mapping, and quantitative ethnobotany. The book covers first the research and monitoring methodologies for the New World and then the results of individual research and integrated studies on all aspects of forest biodiversity in North and South America and the Caribbean.
Download or read book Towards an Innovative Remote Sensing Tool for Tropical Forest Change Monitoring by Integrating Spatial Segments and Time Series Analysis written by J. González de Tánago Meñaca and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The net tropical forest carbon emission still remains uncertain, challenging the REDD+ monitoring system. This uncertainty is extensively related to the uncertainties in the estimations of the forest cover loss, the extent and intensity of forest degradation events, and the reforestation and regrowth rate. Complex spatiotemporal analysis techniques are needed to improve both spatially and temporally the estimation precision of the forest cover changes on tropical areas. Many remote sensing techniques have been developed to detect Land Cover Changes (LCC), including recent object based approaches exploiting the advantage of extracting changes in their spatial context. However, these previous works have been applied in a limited temporal scale, mostly bi-temporal or reduced multi-temporal image comparison (only few observation dates). In contrast, emerging LCC analysis approaches exploit the full temporal information of land cover dynamics provided by remote sensing dense time series, though they have been mostly applied in a pixel-based approach. Only little research has been done combining both approaches. This MSc. thesis explored the potential of spatiotemporal segmentation and time series analysis. First, LCC was estimated from Landsat time series by the Iterative Reweighted Multivariate Alteration Detection algorithm (iMAD) and spatiotemporal segments were delineated extracting LCC objects. Second, a time series analysis by the mean of the “Break For Additive Seasonal and Trend” (BFAST) algorithm over the LCC segments was performed for characterizing the temporal pattern of the segments. Finally, the information provided by both analysis was integrated for classifying the segments. This spatial and temporal information integration enhanced the capabilities of characterization of the spatial and temporal dynamics of tropical forest disturbances, contributing to increase the understanding of the immediate and long term implications of human activities over the tropical forest. Data abundance was found to be of major importance. Forest and non-forest related land cover changes within the study area have been detected producing satisfactory results. Especially the relations of segments and temporal profile’s need to be further analyzed by making use of multi-temporal change detection products and well framed multivariate analysis.
Download or read book Forest Dynamics written by H. Koop and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cum laude graduation (with distinction).
