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Remote Sensing of Forest Environments

Concepts and Case Studies

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Michael A. Wulder

    1. Canadian Forest Service (Pacific Forestry Centre), Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, Canada

  2. Steven E. Franklin

    1. Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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Remote Sensing of Forest Environments: Concepts and Case Studies is an edited volume intended to provide readers with a state-of-the-art synopsis of the current methods and applied applications employed in remote sensing the world's forests. The contributing authors have sought to illustrate and deepen our understanding of remote sensing of forests, providing new insights and indicating opportunities that are created when forests and forest practices are considered in concert with the evolving paradigm of remote sensing science. Following background and methods sections, this book introduces a series of case studies that exemplify the ways in which remotely sensed data are operationally used, as an element of the decision-making process, and in the scientific study of forests.

Remote Sensing of Forest Environments: Concepts and Case Studies is designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of both practitioners and researchers. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in Forestry, Environmental Science, Geography, Engineering, and Computer Science.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Data Collection and Pre-Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Remote Sensing of Forest Environments, Introduction

      • Michael A. Wulder, Steven E. Franklin
      Pages 3-12

    3. Selection of Remotely Sensed Data

      • Michael A. Lefsky, Warren B. Cohen
      Pages 13-46

    4. The Roles of Aerial Photographs in Forestry Remote Sensing Image Analysis

      • Ronald J. Hall
      Pages 47-75

    5. Indirect Measurement of Forest Canopy Structure from In Situ Optical Sensors

      • Richard A. Fournier, Daniel Mailly, Jean-Michel N. Walter, Kamel Soudani
      Pages 77-113

    6. Accuracy Assessment of Maps of Forest Condition

      • Raymond L. Czaplewski
      Pages 115-140

  3. Common Methods for Data Processing and Information Generation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Geometric Correction of Remotely Sensed Images

      • Thierry Toutin
      Pages 143-180

    3. Radiometric Image Processing

      • Derek R. Peddle, Philippe M. Teillet, Michael A. Wulder
      Pages 181-208

    4. Per-Pixel Analysis of Forest Structure

      • Gregory P. Asner, Jeffrey A. Hicke, David B. Lobell
      Pages 209-254

    5. Extracting Individual Tree Information

      • Darius S. Culvenor
      Pages 255-277

    6. Rationale and Conceptual Framework for Classification Approaches to Assess Forest Resources and Properties

      • Janet Franklin, John Rogan, Stuart R. Phinn, Curtis E. Woodcock
      Pages 279-300

    7. Remote Sensing of Forests Over Time

      • Peng Gong, Bing Xu
      Pages 301-333

  4. Case Studies Illustrating Methods and Applications for Remote Sensing of Forests

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-N16
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    2. National Scale Forest Information Extraction from Coarse Resolution Satellite Data, Part 1

      • Josef Cihlar, Rasim Latifovic, Alexander Trishchenko, Gunar Fedosejevs, Jean Beaubien, Jing Chen
      Pages 337-357

    3. National Scale Forest Information Extraction from Coarse Resolution Satellite Data, Part 2

      • Josef Cihlar, Richard Fernandes, Robert Fraser, Wenjun Chen, Rasim Latifovic, Jing Chen et al.
      Pages 359-387

    4. Regional Forest Land Cover Characterisation using Medium Spatial Resolution Satellite Data

      • Chengquan Huang, Collin Homer, Limin Yang
      Pages 389-410

    5. Modeling Forest Productivity Using Data Acquired Through Remote Sensing

      • Nicholas C. Coops, Joseph D. White
      Pages 411-431

    6. Experiences in Field Data Collection

      • G. Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa, Mark Kachmar, Margaret Kalácska, Stephen Hamilton
      Pages 433-446
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"All chapters can easily be read as stand-alone papers. Some of the chapters may serve as excellent teaching material in application oriented training[...] Readers who are interested in remote sensing based data provision on forest and forest resources will find in this book a well done blend of scientific and application oriented papers and an extremely useful reference."
(Forstarchiv, 75:2 (2004)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Canadian Forest Service (Pacific Forestry Centre), Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, Canada

    Michael A. Wulder

  • Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Steven E. Franklin

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