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Section Board for 'Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing' (85)
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Interests: forest fires; land use–land cover changes; wildfire modelling; fire severity; regeneration; remote sensing; LiDAR; GIS
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Interests: forest policy; ecosystem services; forest economics; natural resources
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Special Issue in Forests: Ecology and Management of Invasive Species in Forest Ecosystems
Special Issue in Forests: Ecosystem Services and the Forest Economy

Interests: forest monitoring; national forest inventory; conservation; natural resources management; forest biodiversity indicators, forest information harmonization
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Interests: tree ecophysiology; forest hydrology; process-based modelling; water relations; catchment and basin management; climate change adaptation
Interests: biogeochemistry (nutrient cycling, nutrient stoichiometry, litter decomposition and nutrient release); forest ecology (plant and soil interactions, functional traits, feedback processes); soil ecology (soil microbial biomass, mycorrhizal fungal communities, molecular techniques); soil seed bank ecology (characterization and distribution of seedbank species)
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Interests: forestry; biomass; land cover dynamics; spatial analysis; wild fires; ecosystem services
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Interests: vegetation phenology dynamics; landscape disturbance; fire spatio-temporal behavior; land cover change processes; remotely sensed data analysis; geoprocessing techniques; multivariate statistical methods
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Interests: quantitative silviculture; forest regeneration and growth; mixedwood ecology; high resolution forestry

Interests: biometry; statisctic; multivariate models; regression; relatioships
Interests: forest science; forest ecology; tree growth; global change; forest biometrics

Interests: environmental monitoring and indicator species; standardization of biomonitoring methods; quality assurance procedures in environmental monitoring; biodiversity and sustainable forest management; lichen diversity
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Special Issue in Forests: Biomonitoring with Lichens and Mosses in Forests

Interests: imaging spectroscopy; forestry; LiDAR
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Interests: forest biometrics; mensuration; measurements; forest inventory; sampling; taper equations; volume and weight equations; stand dynamics; growth and yield models; diameter distributions; timber management

Interests: terrestrial and UAV based LiDAR; measurement and modelling of full 3D vegetation structure and how this is related to airborne or spaceborne remote sensing signals; radiative transfer modelling
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Interests: geographical information systems (GIS); remote sensing; python programming for GIS; plant ecology

Interests: monitoring and modelling of forest ecosystems; productivity and global change; applications of remote sensing to forest inventories; 3D and 4D functional-structural plant models

Interests: forest inventory; boreal forests; aerial laser scanner (ALS); terrestrial laser scanner (TLS); digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP); convolutional neural networks (CNN)
Interests: sylviculture; stand dynamics; stand management; natural regeneration; short rotation forestry; national forest inventory

Interests: remote sensing and GIScience; environmental modeling; GEOgraphic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA); lidar (light detection and ranging); machine learning; landscape ecology
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Interests: forest remote sensing; geomatics; forest inventory; biodiversity; decision support systems;
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Interests: ADA, Algebraic Difference Approach; GADA, or Generalized Algebraic Difference Approach; self-referencing functions; self-referencing models; implicit equations; dynamic equations; projection equations; projection models; base-age invariance; path invariance; indifference under reparametrization parameter estimation; model conditioning; well-behaved model; pooled cross-sectional and longitudinal data models; site models; site index models; site-height-age models; anamorphism; polymorphism; complex polymorphism; fixed-effects vs. mixed-effects parameter estimation of self-referencing models; subject-specific parameter estimation; variable parameter models

Interests: fire behaviour; rate of fire spread; fire modelling; crown fires; fire spread prediction; fuel management; fuel classification
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Interests: mapping and assessment of ecosystems and ecosystem services; biodiversity and ecosystem services; inventory and mapping of flora and habitat types/vegetation types; monitoring and conservation status assessment of habitats and species; conservation management of species and habitat types; conservation policy and national biodiversity strategy
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Special Issue in Forests: Protection and Management of Species, Habitats, Ecosystems and Landscapes
Special Issue in Forests: Forests Ecosystem Services: Mapping, Assessment and Policy Implications
Special Issue in Land: Land Use Futures for a Sustainable Anthropocene
Special Issue in Forests: Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2021)

Interests: forest ecology; nitrogen and carbon cycling; biodiversity; forest understory vegetation; air pollution impacts in forests; long-term ecosystem research; LTER; ecological modelling
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Interests: vegetation structure mapping; vegetation dynamics; RPAS data analysis; multispectral remote sensing; biodiversity monitoring
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Interests: forest management and planning; harvest scheduling; forest landscape planning; forest sector models; decision support systems
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Interests: forestry; wildfire; forest management; remote sensing; LiDAR
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Post-fire Environmental Damage and Forest Recovery: New Challenges and Approaches
Topics: The Future of Wildfires: Latest Geo-Technologies Applied to Fires and a New Perspective of Forest Resilience

Interests: environmental monitoring and biomonitoring; applicability of bioindication and bioaccumulation techniques; environmental alteration of risk areas; lichen functional traits; sustainable forest management
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Special Issue in Forests: Biomonitoring with Lichens and Mosses in Forests

Interests: tree-ring dating; dendroecology; wood anatomy; forest history
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Interests: mixed linear models; quantitative genetics; design of experiments; sampling; growth and yield modelling; plant breeding; forest and agricultural statistics
Interests: forest; tree regeneration; air photos; remote sensing; ecophysiology; photosynthesis; tree reproduction
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Interests: ALS; photogrammetry clouds; forest inventory; forest fires; forest monitoring; forest modeling
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2. International Information Department of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Fundamental Sciences, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 12 Bandera Str., 79013 Lviv, Ukraine
Interests: ecosystems services and management; global forest model;climate mitigation options; land use change; forest management

Interests: monitoring; LiDAR; disturbance; wildfire; defoliation

Interests: forest management; ecosystem modeling; carbon cycling

Interests: vegetation phenology; forest demography; carbon sequestration; drought and disturbance resilience; dendrochronology; model data fusion; computer vision and remote sensing
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Interests: laser scanning (airborne, mobile and terrestrial); 3D remote sensing; individual tree detection; virtual forests
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in Mobile Laser Scanning and Mobile Mapping
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Lidar/Laser Scanning in Urban Environments
Special Issue in Forests: Forest Ground Observations through Terrestrial Point Clouds
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Airborne Laser Scanning
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Techniques for Precision Forestry
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Virtual Forest
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Concurrent Positioning, Mapping and Perception of Multi-source Data Fusion for Smart Applications
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Thematic Information Extraction and Application in Forests
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Laser Scanning for Quantifying Sustainable Forest and Agriculture Management

Interests: forest ecology; community ecology; global change ecology; statistical modeling; invasive species
Interests: mapping; lidar; forest management; remote sensing; forestry

Interests: silviculture; harvest-created gaps; natural disturbance-based management; climate-adaptive forestry; tree regeneration; species diversity; sustainable forest management
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Special Issue in Forests: Ecological Forestry and Restoration

Interests: SFM; applied silviculture; international forest/environmental policies and regimes; biodiversity; forest resource assessment; carbon forestry
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Interests: woody plant ecophysiology; ecosystem ecology; climate change impacts; carbon sequestration; remote sensing; canopy architecture; fire ecology; water and carbon cycling; biological invasions; urban forestry

Interests: forest growth model; multifunctional forest management and planning; the impact of climate change on forests and adaptive forest management
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Interests: land use/land cover (LULC) mapping; forest; classification development and comparison; geographic object-based image analysis; natural disasters; UAS; ecosystem services
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Progress on the Use of UAS Techniques for Environmental Monitoring
Special Issue in Forests: Monitoring and Assessing Forest Attributes Based on Remote Sensing Technology
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Accuracy Assessment and Validation of Remotely Sensed Data and Products
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Land Cover/Land Use Mapping at Local and Regional Scales: Part II
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Accuracy Assessment and Validation of Remotely Sensed Data and Product II
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Land Use and Vegetation Mapping

Interests: forest ecology, restoration, and resilience; forest ecophysiology; climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation; carbon sequestration; remote sensing; eddy covariance; disturbance impacts

Interests: forest ecology, management, and restoration; silvicultural systems; forest ecophysiology and biology; climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in forests; forest biomass, bioenergy and carbon sequestration; forest engineering; forest inventory, quantitative methods, and remote sensing; forest soil management; wildland fire science and management

Interests: dendrochronology; natural disturbance; stand dynamics; tree mortality; forest decline; abiotic stress; quantitative wood anatomy; tree ecophysiology; forest modelling

2. Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA
Interests: digital and precision agriculture; UAV and satellite remote sensing: viticulture; wireless sensor networks; crop modeling; hyperspectral and thermal imagery; machine learning and geostatistics
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Agroforestry
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing in Viticulture
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Digital Agriculture
Special Issue in Forests: Forestry Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 2020
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Precision Agriculture Using Hyperspectral Images
Special Issue in Agriculture: Sensors and Remote Sensing in Precision Horticulturae

Interests: sampling and integrating inventory data; disturbance; land management; monitoring
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Interests: statistics; ecological modeling; population dynamics; theoretical ecology

Interests: forest management; carbon assessment; landscape ecology; biometrics; forest value chain; forest economics; remote sensing; biogeochemistry

Interests: forests; landscapes; ecosystem services; disturbances; climate change
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Interests: ecological modeling; community ecology; ecosystem monitoring and assessment; invasion biology; aquatic ecosystem management
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Special Issue in Forests: Impacts, Monitoring and Management of Forest Pests and Diseases
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Food Chains and Food Webs in Aquatic Ecosystems
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Water Quality and Ecosystem Monitoring, Analysis, and Management
Special Issue in Forests: Management of Forest Pests and Diseases
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: 2nd Edition: Water Quality and Ecosystem Monitoring, Analysis, and Management

Interests: forest modeling; forest management; forest inventory; agroforestry; nonwood forest products; cork; cork oak; montado; statistical analysis; decision support tools
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Interests: terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle; forests; peatlands; biosphere-atmosphere exchanges of carbon; greenhouse gases; water and energy; eddy covariance; phenology; management impacts; model-data integration; global change
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Interests: pyrogeography; remote sensing; landscape ecology of fire
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Special Issue in Forests: Engaging Land Owners to Reduce Wildfire Risk at Landscape Level

Interests: earth observation; modeling; land surface interactions; soil moisture; evapotrasnpiration; land use/cover mapping; change detection; natural hazards; floods; wildfires; sensitivity analysis; soil vegetation atmosphere transfer modeling; operational products benchmarking
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Wildfire
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: GPS/GNSS Contemporary Applications
Special Issue in Sensors: Spaceborne Radar Remote Sensing of Agricultural Canopies and Soil Moisture
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Earth Observation in Forest Biophysical/Biochemical Parameter Retrieval
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Biophysical and Biochemical Property of Crops and Natural Vegetation
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Novel Methods and Applications in Satellite and Aerial Imagery Time Series Analysis
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Applications of Spatial Science and Technology in Health Research

2. Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología Forestal de Cataluña (CTFC), Crta. de St. Llorenç de Morunys a Port del Comte, km 2, E-25280 Solsona, Spain
Interests: forest operations; forest engineering; RFID timber traceability; biomass production; mechanization; logging; harvesting; safety and health in forest operations; logging contractors; harvesting cost
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Interests: finite mixture models; forest dynamics; disturbances; forest structural heterogeneity; structural types; tree rings
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Interests: remote sensing; laser scanning; vegetation phenology; carbon and water cycles; temporal development

Interests: remote sensing; biomass; classification; forest fire; forest disturbances; land use-land cover changes; ecosystem monitoring and assessment; vegetation degradation and restoration
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Interests: tropical dry forests; UAVs; carbon fluxes and phenology; hyperspectral remote sensing; ecological succession
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Tropical Environmental Change
Special Issue in Sensors: Remote Sensing of Climate Change
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Fires on Forest Environments
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: UAS-Based Lidar and Imagery Data for Forest
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: New Advancements in the Field of Forest Remote Sensing

Interests: UAV; Lidar; SfM; hyperspectral images; data fusion; hyperspectral lidar data
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Interests: forestry; biomass; land use land cover mapping; spatial data integration; remote sensing
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Forest Biomass and Carbon Observation with Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Land: Integrating Remote Sensing and Geospatial Big Data for Land Use Mapping and Monitoring

Interests: remote sensing; forestry; spectroscopy; water quality; wildlife habitat use
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Advances in Hyperspectral Imaging for Assessments of Ecosystem Health and Function
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Applications of Remote Sensing in Invasive Species Assessments
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing-Based Evapotranspiration Models

Interests: fire danger modeling; climate change; wildland–urban interface fire risk mapping; Mediterranean vegetation ecophysiology; vegetation–atmosphere trace gas exchanges
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Interests: nutrient and water availability; roots; process-based modelling; hydrology; agroforestry; fertilisers; water quality

Interests: wildfire; remote sensing; vegetation mortality and productivity
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Special Issue in Land: Wildland Fires
Topical Collection in Fire: Diversity Leaders in Fire Science
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing and Image Processing for Fire Science and Management
Topical Collection in Fire: Rethinking Wildland Fire Governance: A Series of Perspectives
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remotely Sensed Estimates of Fire Radiative Energy
Special Issue in Fire: Advances in the Measurement of Fuels and Fuel Properties
Topical Collection in Fire: Technical Forum for Fire Science Laboratory and Field Methods
Special Issue in Fire: Remotely Sensed Estimates of Fire Radiative Energy
Special Issue in Fire: Data and Models from Integrated Socio-Environmental Fire Science Projects
Interests: sylviculture; empirical and process-based modelling; forest inventory; biomass and carbon; natural regeneration; short rotation forestry; non-wood forest products
Interests: modelling forest site productivity, growth and yield; remote sensing of forest productivity; forest disturbances and adaptation to climate change in forest management; modeling forest biomass; carbon sequestration; multi-source forest inventory; applications of GIS and remote sensing in forestry

Interests: remote sensing; SAR; climatic stress; drought; windthrow; snow
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Interests: forest health monitoring; ecosystem status and change; land use and land cover dynamic; forest biochemistry and productivity; biophysical parameters estimation
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Interests: remote sensing; laser scanning; precision forestry; forest management; forest health
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Interests: forest modeling; remote sensing; photogrammetry; 3-D modeling of vegetation; individual-based models; stochastic modeling
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Models of Forest Structure, Composition, and Function

Interests: biogeography; bird conservation; ecosystem services; fire-prone ecosystems; fire regime; heathlands; land use change; landscape ecology; mountain systems; perturbations; remote sensing; species distribution models; vegetation regeneration; wildland fires
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing in Forest Fire Monitoring and Post-fire Damage Analysis

Interests: forest ecosystem remote sensing; forest disturbance; multitemporal analysis; LiDAR; imaging spectroscopy; data fusion
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Interests: forest management; forest IT; remote sensing; GIS applications; terrain mobility
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Special Issue in Forests: GIS and Forest Natural Resource Inventory

Interests: forest modeling; carbon; climate change; mitigation; adaptation; silviculture; dendrochronology; natural disturbances; forest fire; ecosystem services; biomass
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Interests: forest ecology; remote sensing; LiDAR; forest inventory; tree size scaling theories; forest structure; competition and dominance; modelling; data fusion
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Special Issue in Forests: Applications of LiDAR and Photogrammetry for Forest Inventory and Management
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Lidar Remote Sensing of Forest Structure, Biomass and Dynamics
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Data Fusion for Mapping Ecosystem Dynamics
Special Issue in Forests: Remote Sensing of Forest Disturbance and Recovery

Interests: tree demography; stand dynamics; forest simulation modelling; global change; forest distributions; carbon sequestration; LiDAR
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Interests: remote sensing; laser scanning; precision forestry; forest structure
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Applications of Individual Tree Detection (ITD)

Interests: carbon cycling; forests; ecosystem modelling
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Interests: forest ecology; forest growth and carbon-water balances; stress physiology; adaptation–mitigation of forests to global change and air pollution; process-based and statistical modeling; litter decomposition
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Interests: forest inventory; forest resources; remote sensing; Lidar; photogrammetry

Interests: 3D remote sensing; remote sensing of forested environments; laser scanning; vegetation structure; wildfire
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Special Issue in Drones: Drones for Topographic Mapping
Special Issue in Sensors: Smart Decision-Making: New Paths
Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Individual Tree Detection and Characterisation from UAV Data