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Assessing the transferability of statistical predictive models for leaf area index between two airborne discrete return LiDAR sensor designs within multiple intensely managed Loblolly pine forest locations in the south-eastern USA
(2016-04)
Leaf area is an important forest structural variable which serves as the primary means of mass and energy exchange within vegetated ecosystems. The objective of the current study was to determine if leaf area index (LAI) ...
Forest height maps from NAIP?
(2017-06-22)
Disturbance Detection and Diagnostics (D^3) Algorithm
(2018-01-16)
The Virginia Tech Disturbance Detection and Diagnostics (D3) Program is written in FORTRAN 95. It is compiled as a command line executable program running on a PC. Designed to read and evaluate image stacks of NDVI values ...
Identifying Forest Impacted by Development in the Commonwealth of Virginia through the Use of Landsat and Known Change Indicators
(MDPI, 2018-01-18)
This study examines the effectiveness of using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from 1326 different Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper images in finding low density development ...
Prediction of Canopy Heights over a Large Region Using Heterogeneous Lidar Datasets: Efficacy and Challenges
(MDPI, 2015-08-27)
Generating accurate and unbiased wall-to-wall canopy height maps from airborne lidar data for large regions is useful to forest scientists and natural resource managers. However, mapping large areas often involves using ...
Automated Mapping of Typical Cropland Strips in the North China Plain Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Photogrammetry
(MDPI, 2019-10-10)
Accurate mapping of agricultural fields is needed for many purposes, including irrigation decisions and cadastral management. This paper is concerned with the automated mapping of cropland strips that are common in the ...
Using Window Regression to Gap-Fill Landsat ETM+ Post SLC-Off Data
(MDPI, 2018-09-20)
The continued development of algorithms using multitemporal Landsat data creates opportunities to develop and adapt imputation algorithms to improve the quality of that data as part of preprocessing. One example is de-striping ...
Edyn: Dynamic Signaling of Changes to Forests Using Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Charts
(MDPI, 2017-08-24)
Remote detection of forest disturbance remains a key area of interest for scientists and land managers. Subtle disturbances such as drought, disease, insect activity, and thinning harvests have a significant impact on ...
Creating Landscape-Scale Site Index Maps for the Southeastern US Is Possible with Airborne LiDAR and Landsat Imagery
(MDPI, 2019-03-06)
Sustainable forest management is hugely dependent on high-quality estimates of forest site productivity, but it is challenging to generate productivity maps over large areas. We present a method for generating site index ...
An Adaptive Noise Filtering Algorithm for AVIRIS Data with Implications for Classification Accuracy
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2008), TR-08-15
This paper describes a new algorithm used to adaptively filter a remote sensing dataset based on signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) once the maximum noise fraction (MNF) has been applied. This algorithm uses Hermite splines to ...