Overview
- Provides a unique collection of papers on ground and space borne forest structure observation techniques and their role in earth system science and policy
- Is of interest to a wide audience of researchers and students
- Contains a rich resource of unpublished data, examples and illustrations
Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI (SSSI, volume 71)
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Keywords
- Forest
- Biomass
- Remote sensing
- Carbon cycle
- Space
- Forest Properties
- SAR Tomography
- Biomass remote sensing
- Ultra-high-density drone lidar
- wood density
- BIOMASS
- NISAR
- GEDI
- MAAP
- Terrestrial Laser Scanning
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
- natural resources and energy economics
About this book
Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 40, Issue 4, 2019
The chapters “Aspects of Forest Biomass in the Earth System: Its Role and Major Unknowns”, “The Role and Need for Space-Based Forest Biomass-Related Measurements in Environmental Management and Policy’, “Recent Advances in Forest Observation with Visual Interpretation of Very High-Resolution Imagery”, “Species Matter: Wood Density Influences Tropical Forest Biomass at Multiple Scales”, “Innovations in Ground and Airborne Technologies as Reference and for Training and Validation: Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS)”, “New Opportunities for Forest Remote Sensing Through Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar”, “The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation”, and “A Joint ESA-NASA Multi-mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) for Biomass, NISAR, and GEDI” are available as open access articles under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Klaus Scipal received the M.Sc. degree in geodesy and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the Vienna University of Technology (TUW), Vienna, Austria, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2006, he was an Assistant Professor with the TUW leading the scatterometer group. In 2006, he joined the satellite data assimilation section of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, working on the land surface assimilation system. Since 2009, he is with the Mission Science Division of the European Space Agency contributing to the definition and development of future earth observation satellites.
Anny Cazenave is director for Earth sciences at the International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland and emeritus scientist at the ‘Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale’, Toulouse, France. Her research deals with the applications of space techniques to geosciences (geodesy, solid Earth geophysics, sealevel change and climatic causes, land hydrology from space).
Teodolina Lopez received the Ph.D. degree in planetary science from the University Toulouse III in 2011. After different post-doctoral positions in France, she held an Earth Science post-doctoral position, from 2016 to 2019, at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the characterisation in (semi-) arid regions of the groundwater flow and transfers and their interaction with the atmosphere. This approach relies on the synergy between Earth Observation dataset (mostly thermal infrared and gravity) with in situ measurements (geophysical, geochemical and geology) and simulations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forest Properties and Carbon Cycle Studies from Earth Observations
Editors: Klaus Scipal, Anny Cazenave, Teodolina Lopez
Series Title: Space Sciences Series of ISSI
Publisher: Springer Cham
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32838-2Published: 25 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32841-2Published: 25 November 2020
Series ISSN: 1385-7525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 339
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Originally published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 40, Issue 4, 2019