Forest Biomass/Carbon Monitoring towards Carbon Neutrality
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 February 2025 | Viewed by 16918
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass; carbon neutral; machine learning algorithms; temporal and spatial modeling; LiDAR; hyperspectral data
Interests: LiDAR point processing; deep learning
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Interests: forest resource monitoring; forest phenotyping; biodiversity; LiDAR; UAV; satellite images
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest ecosystems play critical roles in global carbon sequestration, sustainable development, and climate change mitigation. Since the global agreement (“Paris Agreement”) was reached at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), many countries (e.g., China, France, Japan, South Korea, United States) have announced the exact years of peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality (i.e., ‘dual carbon goals’). The accurate estimation and assessment of forest biomass/carbon stock are fundamental and vital for modeling the global carbon cycle, quantifying carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change, and achieving ‘dual carbon goals’. In recent years, the increasing availability of multisource remote sensing data (e.g., multispectral, hyperspectral, LiDAR, and SAR) with various platforms (e.g., satellite, airborne, unmanned aerial vehicle, and terrestrial) and advanced artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, deep learning, and transfer learning) provide unprecedented potential and opportunity to accurately estimate and assess forest biomass/carbon.
This Special Issue will provide a platform for cutting-edge research on accurately assessing and monitoring forest biomass/carbon stock towards carbon neutrality using multi-source remote sensing data. Well-prepared, unpublished submissions that address one or more of the following topics are solicited (but not limited to this list):
- high-resolution and large-scale mapping, monitoring, and modeling of the dynamics of forest biomass/carbon
- deep learning or innovative artificial intelligence algorithms for forest biomass/carbon stock estimation
- multiscale estimation and its spatial uncertainty of forest biomass/carbon stock
- the development of individual tree species classification or forest classification models using artificial intelligence approaches
- estimation of tree-level structural parameters and biophysical properties that are significant for forest biomass/carbon stock
- monitoring and modeling carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems
- the impact of climate change on the carbon source and carbon sink distribution of forests
- responses of forests to extreme weather events (e.g., heavy precipitation, drought, sand and dust storms) or disturbances (e.g., wildfire, insects)
- impact of forest mortality on carbon flux
- forest growth modeling using remote sensing data
Dr. Zhen Zhen
Dr. Tao Liu
Prof. Dr. Lin Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AGB
- AGC
- carbon neutral
- carbon flux
- artificial intelligence
- carbon source/sink
- deep learning
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