LiDAR: principles and forestry applications
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4336/2010.pfb.30.63.231Keywords:
Airborne Laser Scanner system, forest inventory, forest fires.Abstract
One of the first areas investigated for commercial applications of LiDAR was for forest applications. Topography and forest coverage are of extreme importance for forest resources managers. Accurate information on trees height and density, besides being fundamental for planning, are hard to obtain by conventional methods. Laser scanning technology, as opposed to satellite images and aerial photographs, can concurrently map the ground and obtain estimates of trees height. The use of modeling associated with LiDAR data allows to obtain estimates of several other forest variables such as basal area, diameter, volume, biomass and fuel material. Besides these applications, LiDAR technology presents a great potential for planning forest harvesting activities, road construction and maintenance. However, there are great challenges to be overcome in developing technologies and computational applications more robust and reliable for modeling data from this type of sensor.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2010 Marcos Giongo, Henrique Soares Koehler, Sebastião do Amaral Machado, Flavio Felipe Kirchner, Marco Marchetti
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH reserves the right to correct grammar, improve clarity, and impose PFB standard although respecting the author's style.
Final proof version will be sent to the correspondence author.
Published papers will become property of the BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH.
Published papers may be used by the authors, without previous PFB authorization, allowed when source is cited.
Any mention of trademarks or methods do not imply in its recommended by the Editorial Committee.
The authors are the exclusive responsible for opinions and concepts developed in the manuscript.