Where are the hotspots and coldspots of landscape values, visitor use and biodiversity in an urban forest? by Silviya Korpilo, Joel Jalkanen, Tarmo Virtanen, Susanna Lehvävirta

“…Using an urban forest in Helsinki, Finland as a case study, we incorporated data collected using public participation GIS, expert elicitation and forest inventories in order to investigate the guidance that the different types of data, and their integration, can provide for landscape planning. …”
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Assessing the use of discrete, full-waveform LiDAR and TLS to classify Mediterranean forest species composition by J. Torralba, P. Crespo-Peremarch, L. A. Ruiz

“…LiDAR technology –airborne and terrestrial- is becoming more relevant in the development of forest inventories, which are crucial to better understand and manage forest ecosystems. …”
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Reducing risks by transforming landscapes: Cross-scale effects of land-use changes on ecosystem services. by Giacomo Fedele, Bruno Locatelli, Houria Djoudi, Matthew J Colloff

“…We estimated the impact of these adaptation strategies on the supply of ecosystem services by comparing different benefits provided to people from these land uses (products, water, carbon, and biodiversity), using forest inventories, remote sensing, and interviews. Local people converted forests to rubber plantations, reforested less productive croplands, protected forests on hillsides, and planted trees in gardens. …”
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Automatic Stem Mapping by Merging Several Terrestrial Laser Scans at the Feature and Decision Levels by Juha Hyyppä, Xinlian Liang

“…Detailed up-to-date ground reference data have become increasingly important in quantitative forest inventories. Field reference data are conventionally collected at the sample plot level by means of manual measurements, which are both labor-intensive and time-consuming. …”
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Spatial point-pattern analysis as a powerful tool in identifying pattern-process relationships in plant ecology: an updated review by Mariem Ben-Said

“…In some areas, periodic forest inventories and permanent plots are scarce although they are key tools for spatial data availability and plant dynamic monitoring. …”
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Comparing different k-NN sampling methods for density estimation of wild pistachio (Pistaciaatlantica Desf.) with clustered spatial pattern in a Zagros open stand by Masoume Moselou, Seyyed Yousef Erfanifard

“…The k-Nearest Neighbour (k-NN) method is a distance sampling method which is commonly used to estimate quantitative attributes in forest inventories. In this study, the k-NN method with five strategies of Nearest Individual (NI), Nearest Neighbour (NN), Random Pairs (RP), Point-Centered Quarter (PCQ), and Quartered Neighbour (QN) was used to estimate the density of wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) in Zagros woodlands. …”
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Near Real-Time Change Detection System Using Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning: A Test for Mexican and Colombian Forests by Ana María Pacheco-Pascagaza, Yaqing Gou, Valentin Louis, John F. Roberts, Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Fernando D. B. Espírito-Santo, Ciaran Robb, Caroline Upton, Gustavo Galindo, Edersson Cabrera, Indira Paola Pachón Cendales, Miguel Angel Castillo Santiago, Oswaldo Carrillo Negrete, Carmen Meneses, Marco Iñiguez, Heiko Balzter

“…NRT deforestation alerts enable the establishment of more up-to-date forest inventories and rapid responses to unlicensed logging. …”
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REPEAT PASS INTERFEROMETRY USING ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 DATA (STUDY CASE IN BRAZIL) by R. A. S. Rosa, C. G. Oliveira, T. G. Rodrigues, E. P. Moreira, V. M. Oliveira, V. M. Oliveira

“…This work was part of the R&D project of FAPESP (São Paulo State Research Support Foundation) entitled “<i>Geração de inventários florestais a partir de um portfólio de soluções de sensoriamento remoto brasileiras de papel e celulose</i>” (Generation of forest inventories from a portfolio of Brazilian remote sensing solutions for paper and cellulose) number “<i>2017 / 25639- 5 - NRC - PIPE – Fase 2 Direta</i>”.…”
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Mapping Forest Vertical Structure in Sogwang-ri Forest from Full-Waveform Lidar Point Clouds Using Deep Neural Network by Sung-Hwan Park, Hyung-Sup Jung, Sunmin Lee, Eun-Sook Kim

“…Therefore, it is necessary to obtain accurate information about forests and build forest inventories. However, it is difficult to assess the internal structure of the forest through 2D remote sensing techniques and fieldwork. …”
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Land use/land cover change and carbon footprint in tropical ecosystems in Benin, West Africa by Ibitoyé Biah, Akomian Fortuné Azihou, Sabin Guendehou, Brice Sinsin

“…We used Landsat images for supervised classification and conducted forest inventories in 186 plots that span moist semi-deciduous forest, swamp forest, gallery forest, woodland and savannah areas. …”
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Cultural valuation and biodiversity conservation in the Upper Guinea forest, West Africa by James A. Fraser, Moussa Diabaté, Woulay Narmah, Pépé Beavogui, Kaman Guilavogui, Hubert de Foresta, André B. Junqueira

“…We combine qualitative data with forest inventories and a quantitative index of cultural value to evaluate the relationship between cultural valuation and biodiversity conservation in Upper Guinea forest in Liberia, West Africa. …”
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A Comparison of Three Airborne Laser Scanner Types for Species Identification of Individual Trees by Jean-François Prieur, Benoît St-Onge, Richard A. Fournier, Murray E. Woods, Parvez Rana, Daniel Kneeshaw

“…Species identification is a critical factor for obtaining accurate forest inventories. This paper compares the same method of tree species identification (at the individual crown level) across three different types of airborne laser scanning systems (ALS): two linear lidar systems (monospectral and multispectral) and one single-photon lidar (SPL) system to ascertain whether current individual tree crown (ITC) species classification methods are applicable across all sensors. …”
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Deforestation as a Cause of Increased Surface Runoff in the Catchment: Remote Sensing and SWAT Approach—A Case Study of Southern Serbia by Ivan Potić, Ljiljana M. Mihajlović, Vanja Šimunić, Nina B. Ćurčić, Miroljub Milinčić

“…Since it is difficult to update the national forest inventories in remote areas, remote sensing techniques using different satellite imagery types can provide up-to-date data. …”
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Estimating Forest Above-Ground Biomass in Central Amazonia Using Polarimetric Attributes of ALOS/PALSAR Images by Igor da Silva Narvaes, João Roberto dos Santos, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Paulo Maurício de Alencastro Graça, Ulisses Silva Guimarães, Fábio Furlan Gama

“…Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are essential to understand forest structure and plan forest inventories with the purpose of natural resource management and environmental conservation efforts. …”
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Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly by Bennett, AC, Dargie, GC, Cuni-Sanchez, A, Tshibamba Mukendi, J, Hubau, W, Mukinzi, JM, Phillips, OL, Malhi, Y, Sullivan, MJP, Cooper, DLM, Adu-Bredu, S, Affum-Baffoe, K, Amani, CA, Banin, LF, Beeckman, H, Begne, SK, Bocko, YE, Boeckx, P, Bogaert, J, Brncic, T, Chezeaux, E, Clark, CJ, Daniels, AK, de Haulleville, T, Djuikouo Kamdem, M-N, Doucet, J-L, Evouna Ondo, F, Ewango, CEN, Feldpausch, TR, Foli, EG, Gonmadje, C, Hall, JS, Hardy, OJ, Harris, DJ, Ifo, SA, Jeffery, KJ, Kearsley, E, Leal, M, Levesley, A, Makana, J-R, Mbayu Lukasu, F, Medjibe, VP, Mihindu, V, Moore, S, Nssi Begone, N, Pickavance, GC, Poulsen, JR, Reitsma, J, Sonké, B, Sunderland, TCH

“…Here, we report responses of structurally intact old-growth lowland tropical forests inventoried within the African Tropical Rainforest Observatory Network (AfriTRON). …”

A New Approach Combining a Multilayer Radiative Transfer Model with an Individual-Based Forest Model: Application to Boreal Forests in Finland by Hans Henniger, Friedrich J. Bohn, Kim Schmidt, Andreas Huth

“…To understand forest dynamics under today’s changing environmental conditions, it is important to analyze the state of forests at large scales. Forest inventories are not available for all regions, so it is important to use other additional methods, e.g., remote sensing observations. …”
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Modelagem e prognose em povoamentos não desbastados de clones de eucalipto Modeling and prognosis in nonthinned stands of eucalyptus clones by Marcio Leles Romarco de Oliveira, Helio Garcia Leite, Gilciano Saraiva Nogueira, João Carlos Chagas Campos

“…The data used were obtained from 37 clones distributed in 4325 permanent plots from continuous forest inventories. Each clone contained at least three annual measurements. …”
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Two large-scale forest scenario modelling approaches for reporting CO2 removal: a comparison for the Romanian forests by Viorel N. B. Blujdea, Richard Sikkema, Ioan Dutca, Gert-Jan Nabuurs

“…Results The models, calibrated and parameterized with identical or harmonized data, derived from two successive national forest inventories, produced similar estimates of carbon accumulation in tree biomass. …”
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Multiscale predictors of small tree survival across a heterogeneous tropical landscape. by Eileen H Helmer, Shannon Kay, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Jennifer S Powers, Tana E Wood, Xiaolin Zhu, David Gwenzi, Thomas S Ruzycki

“…We tracked biomass of tree functional groups in tropical forest inventories across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and with random forests we ranked 86 potential predictors of small tree survival (young or mature stems 2.5-12.6 cm diameter at breast height). …”
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A Transition-Matrix Growth Model and Equilibrium Curve for Natural Forests in Jiangxi Province by Yuan Gao, Lian Li, Xue Du, Jinghui Meng

“…In this study, data collected from 91 sample plots from the eighth (2010) and ninth (2015) Chinese National Forest Inventories in Jiangxi Province were used to establish a transition-matrix growth model. …”
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