7 Lidar remote sensing from three platforms – ground, airborne, and spaceborne – has 8 the capability to acquire direct three-dimensional measurements of the forest canopy that 9 are useful for estimating a variety of forest inventory parameters, including tree height, 10 volume, and biomass, and also for deriving useful information for characterizing wildlife 11 habitat or forest fuels. 12 The...

When full-waveform LiDAR (FW-LiDAR) data are applied to extract the component feature information of interest targets, there exist a problem of components lost during the waveform decomposition procedure, which severely constrains the performance of subsequent targets information extraction. Focusing on the problem above, an enhance component detection algorithm, which combines Finite Mixed Met...

Conventional discrete return airborne lidar systems, used in the commercial sector for efficient generation of high quality spatial data, have been considered for the past decade to be an ideal choice for various mapping applications. Unlike two-dimensional aerial imagery, the elevation component of airborne lidar data provides the ability to represent vertical structure details with very high ...

For the last few decades, analysis of forest area has been conducted using remote sensing techniques such as aerial photogrammetry, satellite imagery, synthetic aperture radar and lidar. Airborne laser scanning in particular offers a cost-effective, versatile, operationally flexible and robust sampling tool for forest management. There is a growing industry trend towards techniques of ‘precisio...

This paper presents results from two simulation studies which attempt to measure forest height with full waveform lidar. MonteCarlo ray tracing is used to simulate a full waveform lidar response over explicitly represented 3D forest models. Gaussian decomposition and multi-spectral edge detection are used to estimate tree top and ground positions over a range of forest ages, stand densities and...

Australia has the sixth largest forest area in the world, consisting of 164 million hectares covering 21% of the continent. The Australian government has invested in research for management of forests by construction of forest database and detection of forest change. The full waveform lidar study for the extraction of plot statistics such as percentile tree counts, stem measurement, and canopy ...

A recent innovation in commercially-available topographic lidar systems is the ability to record return waveforms at high sampling frequencies. These “full-waveform” systems provide up to two orders of magnitude more data than “discrete-return” systems. However, due to the relatively limited capabilities of current processing and analysis software, more data does not always translate into more ...

Recent work has established the utility of waveform sampling lidar for predicting forest structural attributes. Nevertheless, serious obstacles to its wide-spread use still exist. They include the lack of waveform sampling lidar sensors capable of measuring forest canopy structure over large extents, and the practical difficulty of developing widely applicable relationships to predict forest st...

Possessing accurate, spatial and current data on the water levels and the depths are necessary for anticipation and better management of coastal and continental waters. Among the remote sensing techniques to monitor the water bathymetry and altimetry, the LIDAR appears as an adapted and promising technique, already proven on airborne platforms, because of its potential accuracy, spatial resolut...