Dear Colleagues,

In the past, remote sensing has been shown to contribute significantly to a better understanding of both the natural and built environment. With LiDAR remote sensing making it possible to collect 3D coordinates of objects with extremely high accuracy, many fields such as geosciences, urban studies, and vegetation mapping have been given the opportunity to develop further.

LiDAR sensors onboard different platforms (e.g., terrestrial, airborne, UAV, satellite, backpack, and handheld) have been widely used in various biomes, especially over large and remote areas. So far, one of the main applications of LiDAR data is to provide a reliable estimation of biomass and carbon stock as well as information related to different forest parameters (e.g., diameter at breast height and basal area, tree height, and canopy base height), resulting in significant contributions to sustainable forest management and climate change mitigation.

Recent developments in forest research include the integration of LiDAR with other remote sensing data at different scales, as well as the use of machine learning and deep learning to extract semantic information about different forest attributes.

This Special Issue on “Remote Sensing and LiDAR Data for Forest Monitoring” welcomes papers focusing on remote sensing applications based on LiDAR data for forest ecosystem monitoring. The scope of topics to be discussed includes but is not limited to the following:

• LiDAR-based approaches for forest ecology and management.
• Forest biomass estimation using LiDAR data or multisource approaches (including LiDAR).
• New methods in LiDAR processing for forest attribute retrieval.
• Machine learning and deep-learning approaches for forest information retrieval from LiDAR data.
• Multisensor approaches and data fusion for forest ecosystem monitoring.
• Multitemporal LiDAR approaches for forest change monitoring.
• New approaches in forest damage detection methods employing LiDAR data.

Prof. Dr. Ioannis Gitas
Dr. Dimitris Stavrakoudis
Dr. Patricia Oliva
Guest Editors

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• forest management
• forest remote sensing
• forest biomass
• forest ecosystems
• forest inventory
• LiDAR
• data fusion