Advances in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Analysis and Forest Ecosystems Monitoring
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Biogeosciences Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 May 2024 | Viewed by 132
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; GIS; forests; wildfire; land-cover change
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: remote sensing applications; temporal series analysis; protected areas; climate influence on forest ecosystems; forest ecosystems monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests cover one-third of the earth's land and represent one of the most sophisticated ecosystems. Forests provide a large number of ecosystem services and play a crucial role in mitigating global climate change. Vegetation structural data are significant for assessing biophysical processes and changes and promoting sustainable forest management. It is one of the important data sources for forest ecosystem monitoring. Multi-source remote-sensing technologies and data can be further mined and applied to forest remote sensing. Satellite imagery has been used for land cover change detection, landscape dynamics mapping, vegetation parameters and structure analysis, and climate change monitoring. Spaceborne lidars could be applied in detailed measurements of vegetation vertical structures. These remote sensing technologies have had a significant effect on the monitoring of forest ecosystems.
This Special Issue is aimed at studies covering the application of advanced remote sensing techniques to vegetation structure analysis, with the aim of supporting forest ecosystem monitoring.
Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Vegetation structural characteristics
- Land cover and landscape change
- LiDAR point cloud processing in forests
- Landslide Susceptibility Assessment
- SAR imaging for forest applications
- Forest Ecosystems and Forest Management
Prof. Dr. Carlos José Novillo Camacho
Prof. Dr. Arrogante-Funes Patricia
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- LiDAR remote sensing
- forest monitoring
- aerial photogrammetry
- vegetation structure
- time series vegetation index
- land cover change
