Geospatial Technologies for Forests Carbon Stock Assessment in the Tropics
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 459
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; vegetation mapping; tropical forests
Interests: remote sensing; biogeography; ecology; land cover dynamics; forests and coastal ecosystems (including mangroves)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest carbon stock assessment is emerging as countries worldwide seek nature-based capital to mitigate the impacts of climate change, to achieve emission reduction targets and to some extent to enter into the carbon market and create policies for financial aspects. Geospatial technology is one of the popular technologies that is commonly utilized to understand and characterize the biophysical properties of forests, including carbon, at varying spatial and temporal scales. This technology is also adopted in management prescriptions and also constitutes a tool for monitoring and enforcement. In this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of studies using both fundamental and applied technologies in the geospatial field.
Submissions may cover, but should not be limited to, the development of methodologies and modelling for biomass carbon assessments, as well as changes in analysis or monitoring aspects in any ecosystem type in the tropical regions using all remote sensing platforms; space-borne remote sensing satellites, air-borne sensors, and unmanned aerial systems including optical multispectral, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), light detection and ranging (LiDAR), hyperspectral, terrestrial LiDAR (TLS) and other sensor systems. Methods, including traditional and advanced machine learning, using any software or application, are encouraged in making contributions to this Special Issue. Our ultimate aim in doing so is to promote knowledge and adaptation strategies for forest conservation and management, producing baselines in forest-based resources towards achieving sustainable development goals (SDG) and related climate change policies, both locally and globally.
Dr. Hamdan Omar
Prof. Dr. Richard Lucas
Prof. Dr. Zulkiflee Abd Latif
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tropical forests
- carbon stock
- carbon offset
- sequestration
- biomass carbon
- assessment techniques
- monitoring approach
- land use
- net-zero
- geospatial
- GIS
