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View article: Quantifying aboveground herbaceous biomass in grassy ecosystems: a comparison of field and high‐resolution UAV‐LiDAR approaches
Quantifying aboveground herbaceous biomass in grassy ecosystems: a comparison of field and high‐resolution UAV‐LiDAR approaches Open
Grassy ecosystems cover >25% of the world's land surface area. The abundance of herbaceous vegetation in these systems directly impacts a variety of ecological processes, including carbon sequestration, regulation of water and nutrient cyc…
View article: Mapping tree canopy thermal refugia for birds using biophysical models and LiDAR
Mapping tree canopy thermal refugia for birds using biophysical models and LiDAR Open
View article: Automated detection of an insect‐induced keystone vegetation phenotype using airborne <scp>LiDAR</scp>
Automated detection of an insect‐induced keystone vegetation phenotype using airborne <span>LiDAR</span> Open
Ecologists, foresters and conservation practitioners need ‘biodiversity scanners’ to effectively inventory biodiversity, audit conservation progress and track changes in ecosystem function. Quantifying biological diversity using remote sen…
View article: Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products
Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products Open
This paper provides a review and summary status of the research underway by the NASA Terra Aqua Suomi-NPP Land Discipline Team to provide continuity of global land data products from the NASA Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (…
View article: Find Rhinos without Finding Rhinos: Active Learning with Multimodal Imagery of South African Rhino Habitats
Find Rhinos without Finding Rhinos: Active Learning with Multimodal Imagery of South African Rhino Habitats Open
Much of Earth's charismatic megafauna is endangered by human activities, particularly the rhino, which is at risk of extinction due to the poaching crisis in Africa. Monitoring rhinos' movement is crucial to their protection but has unfort…
View article: Predicting Bird Diversity with Lidar-derived Vegetation Structure in an African Savanna
Predicting Bird Diversity with Lidar-derived Vegetation Structure in an African Savanna Open
Vegetation structural complexity and the diversity of animal communities are closely linked in vegetated ecosystems. These structure-diversity relationships have the potential to be used to predict biodiversity at large spatial scales usin…
View article: More than one quarter of Africa’s tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest
More than one quarter of Africa’s tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest Open
View article: Africa tree cover map
Africa tree cover map Open
Data description This file is a 100 m resolution map of % tree canopy cover per pixel for Africa in 2019. Tree cover values range from 0-100 % and nodata areas are masked as -1. The map is derived from pre…
View article: Africa tree cover map
Africa tree cover map Open
Data description This file is a 100 m resolution map of % tree canopy cover per pixel for Africa in 2019. Tree cover values range from 0-100 % and nodata areas are masked as -1. The map is derived from pre…
View article: Flying high: Sampling savanna vegetation with <scp>UAV</scp> ‐lidar
Flying high: Sampling savanna vegetation with <span>UAV</span> ‐lidar Open
The flexibility of UAV‐lidar remote sensing offers a myriad of new opportunities for savanna ecology, enabling researchers to measure vegetation structure at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. However, this flexibility also increase…
View article: More than one quarter of Africa's tree cover found outside areas previously classified as forest
More than one quarter of Africa's tree cover found outside areas previously classified as forest Open
The consistent monitoring of trees both inside and outside of forests is key to mitigating climate change. Current monitoring systems either ignore trees outside forests or are too expensive to be applied consistently across countries on a…
View article: A consistent assessment of trees inside and outside forests improves estimates of total tree cover in Africa
A consistent assessment of trees inside and outside forests improves estimates of total tree cover in Africa Open
The consistent monitoring of trees both inside and outside of forests is key to mitigating climate change. Current monitoring systems either ignore trees outside forests or are too expensive to be applied consistently across countries on a…
View article: Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission
Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission Open
View article: The first sub-meter resolution digital elevation model of the Kruger National Park, South Africa
The first sub-meter resolution digital elevation model of the Kruger National Park, South Africa Open
The use of digital elevation models has proven to be crucial in numerous studies related to savanna ecosystem research. However, the insufficient spatial resolution of the chosen input data is often considered to be a limiting factor when …
View article: Crossing the Great Divide: Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Gap to Maximize the Utility of Remote Sensing for Invasive Species Monitoring and Management
Crossing the Great Divide: Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Gap to Maximize the Utility of Remote Sensing for Invasive Species Monitoring and Management Open
Invasive species are increasingly present in our ecosystems and pose a threat to the health of forest ecosystems. Practitioners are tasked with locating these invasive species and finding ways to mitigate their spread and impacts, often th…
View article: Sampling forests with terrestrial laser scanning
Sampling forests with terrestrial laser scanning Open
Background and Aims Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) have successfully captured various properties of individual trees and have potential to further increase the quality and efficiency of forest surveys. However, TLSs are limited to line …
View article: Detecting Change in Forest Structure with Simulated GEDI Lidar Waveforms: A Case Study of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA; Adelges tsugae) Infestation
Detecting Change in Forest Structure with Simulated GEDI Lidar Waveforms: A Case Study of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA; Adelges tsugae) Infestation Open
The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA; Adelges tsugae) is an invasive insect infestation that is spreading into the forests of the northeastern United States, driven by the warmer winter temperatures associated with climate change. The initial s…
View article: Preliminary assessment of 20-m surface albedo retrievals from sentinel-2A surface reflectance and MODIS/VIIRS surface anisotropy measures
Preliminary assessment of 20-m surface albedo retrievals from sentinel-2A surface reflectance and MODIS/VIIRS surface anisotropy measures Open
Satellite-based retrievals of land surface albedo at 20-m resolution are generated by coupling the surface reflectances from the recently launched Sentinel-2A satellite with surface anisotropy information (as described by Bidirectional Ref…
View article: The potential to characterize ecological data with terrestrial laser scanning in Harvard Forest, MA
The potential to characterize ecological data with terrestrial laser scanning in Harvard Forest, MA Open
Contemporary terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is being used widely in forest ecology applications to examine ecosystem properties at increasing spatial and temporal scales. Harvard Forest (HF) in Petersham, MA, USA, is a long-term ecologic…
View article: Classifying ecosystems with metaproperties from terrestrial laser scanner data
Classifying ecosystems with metaproperties from terrestrial laser scanner data Open
In this study, we introduce metaproperty analysis of terrestrial laser scanner ( TLS ) data, and demonstrate its application through several ecological classification problems. Metaproperty analysis considers pulse level and spatial metric…