Advanced Geospatial and Ground Based Techniques in Forest Monitoring

Advanced Geospatial and Ground Based Techniques in Forest Monitoring provides insight into advanced geospatial technology in the field of forestry. It provides both traditional and special techniques for monitoring the forest, including biophysical and biochemical parameters, retrieval, species identification, mapping, and classification. The book covers the latest technology to using SAR data, hyperspectral data, and the integration of data sets for the enhanced accuracy of the results and its outcome. Advanced Geospatial and Ground Based Techniques in Forest Monitoring will benefit the academic and the research community with latest research ideas and problem-solving skills in forestry and land management. Includes the application of EO data for forest monitoring in both natural resources mapping and forest sustainable management Presents advancements in geospatial technology using multispectral, hyperspectral, radar microwave, LIDAR data in forest monitoring and its parameter retrieval Covers upcoming satellite missions for forest monitoring INDICE: Part 1. Introduction to Forest Monitoring 1. Traditional methods in forest management 2. An overview of remote sensing technology in forest management 3. A global vulnerability management of forest resources 4. Forest resource sustainable exploitation and management Part 2. Forest Species Stand Classification: Definition and Perspectives 5. A general method for the classification of forest stands 6. Forest stand species mapping using the Sentinel-2 7. Multi-species stand classification: Definition and Perspectives 8. Classification of forest stand considering shapes and sizes of tree crown calculated Part 3. Assessment of Biophysical and Biochemical Parameters 9. Establishing relationships between in situ measured between biophysical and biochemical parameters 10. Chlorophyll assessment and sensitivity analysis using NIR- 11. Carbon stock assessment using non-linear processes 12. Forest biodiversity and vegetation health assessment using narrow band hyperspectral data Part 4. Methodological Considerations in the Study of Forest Ecosystems 13. Thermal hyperspectral applications in forest ecosystem classification 14. Invasive species identification and mapping using multi-source data 15. Social functional mapping of urban green space using remote sensing data 16. Bayesian data synthesis for forest fire estimation Part 5. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques 17. Developments of LiDAR for forest monitoring 18. Forest damage assessment using deep learning 19. Artificial intelligence and forest management 20. Application of machine-learning in forest monitoring: Recent progress and future challenges Part 6. Challenges and Future Needs 21. Building capacity in remote sensing for conservation: present and future challenges 22. Developments of optical remote sensing: UAVs, hyperspectral and multispectral 23. Developments of Review of present perspective, challenges, and Future aspects 24. New satellite missions and sensors for forest monitoring

• ISBN: 978-0-443-18949-4
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés