Maltamo / Næsset / Vauhkonen Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning

Concepts and Case Studies
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-94-017-8663-8
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 464 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Managing Forest Ecosystems

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.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maltamo, Matti

Næsset, Erik

Vauhkonen, Jari

Naesset, Erik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to forest applications of airborne laser scanning;
Jari Vauhkonen et al
.-
PART I – Methodological issues
.- 2. Laser pulse interaction with forest canopy – geometric and radiometric issues;
Andreas Roncat et al
.- 3. Full-waveform airborne laser scanning systems and their possibilities in forest applications;
Markus Hollaus et al
.- 4. Integrating airborne laser scanning with data from global navigation satellite systems and optical sensors;
Rubén Valbuena
.- 5. Segmentation of forest to tree objects;
Barbara Koch et al
.- 6. The semi-individual tree crown approach;
Johannes Breidenbach, Rasmus Astrup
.- 7. Tree species recognition based on airborne laser scanning and complementary data sources;
Jari Vauhkonen et al
.- 8. Estimation of biomass components by airborne laser scanning;
Sorin C. Popescu, Marius Hauglin
.- 9. Predicting tree diameter distributions;
Matti Maltamo, Terje Gobakken
.- 10. A model-based approach for the recovery of forest attributes using airborne laser scanning data;
Lauri Mehtätalo et al
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PART II – Forest inventory applications
.- 11. Area-based inventory in Norway - from innovation to an operational reality;
Erik Næsset
.- 12. Species specific management inventory in Finland;
Matti Maltamo, Petteri Packalen
.- 13. Inventory of forest plantations;
Jari Vauhkonen et al
.- 14. Using airborne laser scanning data to support forest sample surveys;
Ronald E. McRoberts et al
.- 15. Modeling and estimating change;
Ronald E. McRoberts et al
.- 16. Valuation of airborne laser scanning based forest information;
Annika Kangas et al
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PART III – Ecological applications
.- 17. Assessing habitats and organism-habitat relationships by airborne laser scanning;
Ross A. Hill et al
.- 18. Assessing biodiversity by airborne laser scanning;
Jörg Müller, Kerri Vierling
.- 19. Assessing deadwood by airborne laser scanning;
Matti Maltamo et al
.- 20. Estimation of canopy cover, gap fraction and leaf area index with airborne laser scanning;
Lauri Korhonen, Felix Morsdorf
.- 21. Canopy gap detection and analysis with airborne laser scanning;
Benoît St-Onge et al
.- 22. Applications of airborne laser scanning in forest fuel assessment and fire prevention;
John Gajardo et al
.- Index.