Emerging Advances in Digital Forest Monitoring, Analysis, and Modeling
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: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 213
Special Issue Editor
Interests: earth system modeling; ecosystem biophysics and biogeochemistry; wildfires; natural greenhouse gases and nature-based climate solutions; machine learning and causal inference; remote sensing and GIS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests are critical in global energy–water–carbon cycles, biodiversity, climate mitigation and adaptation, and human socioeconomics. While there have been substantial investigations focusing on forests, the roles of forests in ecosystems, the climate, and human systems remain largely uncertain. Emerging advances in digital techniques, analysis, and modeling enable better the assessment and understanding of forest properties and processes across various spatial and temporal scales under environmental changes.
This Special Issue aims to synthesize and present current advanced digital techniques and their applications in the monitoring, analyzing, and modeling of forests, including, but not limited to, carbon stock, vegetation structure and traits, biophysical and biogeochemical processes, biodiversity, disturbances, forest resistance and resilience, forest management, human–forest interactions, natural climate solutions, and sustainable development. Research utilizing the following techniques are highly relevant to this Special Issue: remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), air and ground observations (e.g., eddy covariance, chamber, and isotope), statistical analysis, machine/deep learning, digital twin, and Earth system modeling/terrestrial ecosystem modeling.
Dr. Fa Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- forests
- digital techniques
- remote sensing and GIS
- ground and air observations
- machine learning
- ecosystem analysis and modeling
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