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Integrating terrestrial laser scanning and unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry to estimate individual tree attributes in managed coniferous forests in Japan / Katsuto Shimizu in International journal of applied Earth observation and geoinformation, vol 106 (February 2022)  

Public [article]  inInternational journal of applied Earth observation and geoinformation > vol 106 (February 2022) . - n° 102658 Titre : Integrating terrestrial laser scanning and unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry to estimate individual tree attributes in managed coniferous forests in Japan Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Katsuto Shimizu, Auteur ; Tomohiro Nishizono, Auteur ; Fumiaki Kitahara, Auteur ; Keiko Fukumoto, Auteur ; Hideki Saito, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 102658 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications photogrammétriques [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] estimation statistique [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] image captée par drone [Termes IGN] Japon [Termes IGN] Pinophyta [Termes IGN] volume en bois Résumé : (auteur) The accurate estimation of tree attributes is essential for sustainable forest management. Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) is a viable remote sensing technology suitable for estimating under canopy structure. However, TLS measurements generally underestimate tree height in taller trees, which leads to the underestimation of other tree attributes (e.g., stem volume). The integration of information derived from TLS and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry could potentially improve tree height estimation. This study investigated the applicability of integrating TLS and UAV photogrammetry to estimate individual tree attributes in managed coniferous forests of Japan. Diameter at breast height (DBH), tree height, and stem volume were estimated by (1) TLS data only, (2) integrating TLS and UAV data with TLS tree locations, and (3) integrating TLS and UAV data with treetop detections of the tree canopy. The TLS data only approach achieved high accuracy for DBH estimations with a root mean squared error (RMSE) of 2.36 cm (RMSE% 5.6%); however, tree height was greatly underestimated, with an RMSE of 8.87 m (28.9%) and a bias of −8.39 m. Integrating TLS and UAV photogrammetric data improved tree height estimation accuracy for both the TLS tree location (RMSE of 1.89 m and a bias of −0.46 m) and the treetop detection (RMSE of 1.77 m and a bias of 0.36 m) approaches. Integrating TLS and UAV photogrammetric data also improved the accuracy of the stem volume estimations with RMSEs of 0.21 m3 (10.8%) and 0.21 m3 (10.5%) for the TLS tree location and treetop detection approaches, respectively. Although the tree height of suppressed trees tended to be overestimated by TLS and UAV photogrammetric data integration, a good performance was obtained for dominant trees. The results of this study indicate that the integration of TLS and UAV photogrammetry is beneficial for the accurate estimation of tree attributes in coniferous forests. Numéro de notice : A2022-071 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102658 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102658 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99423 [article]

Assessing the agreement of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy height with airborne lidar over US ecozones / Lonesome Malambo in Remote sensing of environment, vol 266 (December 2021)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing of environment > vol 266 (December 2021) . - n° 112711 Titre : Assessing the agreement of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy height with airborne lidar over US ecozones Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Lonesome Malambo, Auteur ; Sorin C. Popescu, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 112711 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Lasergrammétrie [Termes IGN] biome [Termes IGN] canopée [Termes IGN] données altimétriques [Termes IGN] données ICEsat [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] écorégion [Termes IGN] Etats-Unis [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] photon [Termes IGN] semis de points [Termes IGN] télémétrie laser aéroporté Résumé : (auteur) Despite its critical importance to carbon storage modeling, forest vertical structure remains poorly characterized over large areas. Canopy height estimates from current satellite missions such as ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2) offer promise to close this knowledge gap, but their validation is critically important to inform their measurement uncertainties and scientific utility. Using existing airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, the agreement of a variety of terrain and aboveground canopy height metrics including summary height statistics and percentiles, from ICESat-2’ Land, Water and Vegetation Elevation product (ATL08) product was assessed in 12 sites across six major biomes in the United States. The agreement between ATL08 and ALS heights was assessed using the mean bias (Bias, ATL08 – ALS), the mean absolute error (MAE) and their percent equivalents, percent bias (pBias) and percent MAE (pMAE), respectively. In general, the agreement between ATL08 and ALS terrain heights was high (Bias 0.18 m, pBias 0.1%) while canopy heights showed lower agreement (Bias −1.71 m, pBias −15.9%). Analyses by biome, time of acquisition and beam strength of the ICESat-2 photon data also showed generally higher agreement for ATL08 terrain than canopy heights. Analyses also showed the performance of ATL08 heights varied with canopy cover with ATL08 terrain heights showing the best agreement when canopy cover was between 40 and 70% while the best performance for ATL08 canopy heights was observed when canopy cover was greater than 80%. This observation, coupled with analyses by biome, indicate that ATL08 canopy heights are more suitable in relatively dense canopy environments such as conifer and broadleaf forests than relatively sparse environments such a temperate grassland and Savannas. Higher level canopy height percentiles (95th and 98th) showed higher agreement (mean Bias −12.5%) with ALS heights than lower percentiles (minimum, 25th, mean pBias ~39.2%). These findings indicate that ATL08 canopy heights show more promise for routine canopy height characterization using the 95th and 98% percentiles but is limited in characterizing intermediate vertical structure. The observed performance differences between ATL08 terrain and canopy heights are attributed to differences in photon sampling rates over terrain and canopy surfaces which, compounded with background noise in ICESat-2 photon data, led to different effectiveness for ATL08 processing routines in filtering terrain and off-terrain points. This assessment of the impact of a variety of factors provides the vegetation community with an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of height estimates from the ICESat-2 ATL08 product. Numéro de notice : A2021-922 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112711 Date de publication en ligne : 24/09/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112711 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99277 [article]

Variable selection for estimating individual tree height using genetic algorithm and random forest / Evandro Nunes Miranda in Forest ecology and management, vol 504 (15 January 2022)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 504 (15 January 2022) . - n° 119828 Titre : Variable selection for estimating individual tree height using genetic algorithm and random forest Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Evandro Nunes Miranda, Auteur ; Bruno Henrique Groenner Barbosa, Auteur ; Sergio Henrique Godinho Silva, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 119828 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] apprentissage automatique [Termes IGN] Brésil [Termes IGN] classification par algorithme génétique [Termes IGN] classification par forêts aléatoires [Termes IGN] diamètre à hauteur de poitrine [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] modélisation de la forêt [Termes IGN] optimisation (mathématiques) [Vedettes matières IGN] Foresterie Résumé : (auteur) Tree height is an important trait in forest science and is highly associated with the site quality from which the trees are measured. However, other factors, such as competition and species interaction, may yield better estimates for individual tree height when taken into account, but these variables have so far been challenging in model fitting. We propose a hybrid approach using genetic algorithms for variables selection and a machine learning algorithm (random forest) for fitting models of individual tree heights. We compare our proposed hybrid method with a mixed-effects model and random forest model using a dataset of 5,608 trees and 189 environmental variables (forest inventory-based variables, soil, topographic, climate, spectral, and geographic) from sites in southeastern Brazil. The tree height models were evaluated using the coefficient of determination, absolute bias, and root means square error (RMSE) based on the validation of dataset performance. The optimal set of variables of the proposed method include the ratio of diameter at breast height to quadratic mean diameter, distance independent competition index, dominant height, the soil silt and boron content. Our findings showed that the proposed hybrid method achieved an accuracy comparable with other methodologies in estimating the total height of the individual trees, and such a modelling approach could have broader applications in forestry and ecological science where a studied response trait has a large number of potential explanatory variables. Numéro de notice : A2022-021 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119828 Date de publication en ligne : 06/11/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119828 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99216 [article]

Improving the Fagacées growth model with an expanded common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) data series from France and Germany / Gilles Le Moguédec in Annals of Forest Science [en ligne], vol 78 n° 4 (December 2021)  

Public [article]  inAnnals of Forest Science [en ligne] > vol 78 n° 4 (December 2021) . - n° 84 Titre : Improving the Fagacées growth model with an expanded common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) data series from France and Germany Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Gilles Le Moguédec, Auteur ; Sidonie Artru, Auteur ; Axel Albrecht, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 84 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] allométrie [Termes IGN] Fagus sylvatica [Termes IGN] forêt équienne [Termes IGN] France (administrative) [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] jeu de données [Termes IGN] modèle de croissance végétale [Termes IGN] modélisation de la forêt [Termes IGN] Quercus (genre) [Termes IGN] République fédérale d'Allemagne [Vedettes matières IGN] Inventaire forestier Résumé : (auteur) Key message: The Fagacées growth model was originally designed for application in the Northern half of France. It is a robust model with potential applicability to a larger area, though this potential has not yet been verified. We added new data to the original parameterization data set and our results show that the Fagacées formalism can be generalized. Context: The Fagacées growth and yield model was designed for the management of pure even-aged stands of European beech and served as a prototype to build models for other tree species. Aims: The objective of this study was to improve the growth components of the Fagacées model with additional data from North-Western France to South-Western Germany. Material and methods: Our model was calibrated on several forest inventory data sets. The first one (F) is the original data set that was used to elaborate the equations in the Fagacées model. The second one (F+) is the original data set extended with additional measurements on the same sites and on new sites in Northern France. The third (G) adds complementary data from a forest network in Southwestern Germany. The last one (A) is the aggregate of all these data sets. Results: Fitting the original model equations on the extended F+ dataset led us to modify the equation for stand basal area increment. This new equation also fit the German dataset well. The other equations could be applied to all datasets, some with the same parameter values and some after recalibrating according to the dataset. Conclusion: We conclude that the general form of the model’s equations is appropriate for application to other regions, but that a recalibration of the equations is preferable in order to reflect local conditions. The advantage of our approach is that fewer data are required to recalibrate an existing equation than to establish an entirely new one. Numéro de notice : A2021-695 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s13595-021-01086-9 Date de publication en ligne : 20/09/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-021-01086-9 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98525 [article]

A CNN-based approach for the estimation of canopy heights and wood volume from GEDI waveforms / Ibrahim Fayad in Remote sensing of environment, vol 265 (November 2021)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing of environment > vol 265 (November 2021) . - n° 112652 Titre : A CNN-based approach for the estimation of canopy heights and wood volume from GEDI waveforms Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ibrahim Fayad, Auteur ; Dino Lenco, Auteur ; Nicolas Baghdadi, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 112652 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Lasergrammétrie [Termes IGN] Brésil [Termes IGN] classification par réseau neuronal convolutif [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] Eucalyptus (genre) [Termes IGN] forme d'onde [Termes IGN] Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] modèle de croissance végétale [Termes IGN] random-motion-over-ground model [Termes IGN] semis de points [Termes IGN] volume en bois Résumé : (auteur) Full waveform (FW) LiDAR systems have proven their effectiveness to map forest biophysical variables in the last two decades, owing to their ability of measuring, with high accuracy, forest vertical structures. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) system on board the International Space Station (ISS) is the latest FW spaceborne LiDAR instrument for the continuous observation of Earth's forests. FW systems rely on very sophisticated pre-processing steps to generate a priori metrics in order to leverage their capabilities for the accurate estimation of the aforementioned forest characteristics. The ever-expanding volume of acquired GEDI data, which to date comprises more than 25 billion acquired unfiltered shots, and along with the pre-processed data, amounting to more than 90 TB of data, raises new challenges in terms of adapted preprocessing methods for the suitable exploitation of such a huge and complex amount of LiDAR data. To overcome the issues related to the generation of relevant metrics from GEDI data, we propose a new metric-free approach to estimate canopy dominant heights (Hdom) and wood volume (V) of Eucalyptus plantations over five different regions in Brazil. To avoid metric computation, we leverage deep learning techniques and, more in detail, convolutional neural networks with the aim to analyze the GEDI Level 1B geolocated waveforms. Performance comparisons were conducted between four convolutional neural network (CNN) variants using GEDI waveform data (either untouched, or subsetted) and a metric based Random Forest regressor (RF). Additionally, we tested if our framework can improve the generalization of the models to different distant regions. First, the models were trained using data from all the study regions. Cross validated results showed that the CNN based models compared well against their RF counterpart for both Hdom and V. The RMSE on the estimation of Hdom from the CNN based models varied between 1.54 and 1.94 m with a coefficient of determination (R2) between 0.86 and 0.91, while the RF model produced an accuracy on Hdom estimates of 1.45 m (R2 = 0.92). For V, CNN based estimations ranged from 27.76 to 33.33 m3.ha−1 (R2 between 0.82 and 0.88), while for RF, the RMSE was 27.61 m3.ha−1 (R2 = 0.88). Next, model generalization was assessed by means of a spatial transfer experiment. For Hdom, both the CNN and RF approaches showed similar performances to a global model, however, the CNN based approach showed higher variability on the estimation accuracy, and the variability was related to the forest structure between the trained and tested data (similar tree heights yield better accuracies). For the estimation of V, considering both approaches, the accuracy was dependent on the allometric relationship between Hdom and V in the training and testing regions while lower accuracies on V were obtained when the testing and training regions exhibited a different allometric relationship. Numéro de notice : A2021-869 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112652 Date de publication en ligne : 31/08/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112652 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99118 [article]

Footprint size design of large-footprint full-waveform LiDAR for forest and topography applications: A theoretical study / Xuebo Yang in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 59 n° 11 (November 2021)  

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Modeling post-logging height growth of black spruce-dominated boreal forests by combining airborne LiDAR and time since harvest maps / Batistin Bour in Forest ecology and management, vol 502 (15 december 2021)  

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Stand delineation based on laser scanning data and simulated annealing / Yusen Sun in European Journal of Forest Research, vol 140 n° 5 (October 2021)  

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The effects of combining the variables in allometric biomass models on biomass estimates over large forest areas: A european beech case study / Erick O. Osewe in Forests, vol 12 n° 10 (October 2021)  

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Mapping canopy heights in dense tropical forests using low-cost UAV-derived photogrammetric point clouds and machine learning approaches / He Zhang in Remote sensing, vol 13 n° 18 (September-2 2021)  

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Automated tree-crown and height detection in a young forest plantation using mask region-based convolutional neural network (Mask R-CNN) / Zhenbang Hao in ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, vol 178 (August 2021)  

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based canopy height modeling under leaf-on and leaf-off conditions for determining tree height and crown diameter (Case study: Hyrcanian mixed forest) / Vahid Nasiri in Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol 51 n° 7 (July 2021)  

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Forest height estimation from a robust TomoSAR method in the case of small tomographic aperture with airborne dataset at L-band / Xing Peng in Remote sensing, vol 13 n° 11 (June-1 2021)  

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Model-based estimation of forest canopy height and biomass in the Canadian boreal forest using radar, LiDAR, and optical remote sensing / Michael L. Benson in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 59 n° 6 (June 2021)  

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Tree height growth modelling using LiDAR-derived topography information / Milan Kobal in ISPRS International journal of geo-information, vol 10 n° 6 (June 2021)  

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