Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning Concepts and Case S
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as one of the most promising remote sensing technologies to provide data for research and operational applications in a wide range of disciplines related to management of forest ecosystems. This book provides a co
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Matti Maltamo Erik Næsset Jari Vauhkonen Editors
Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning Concepts and Case Studies
Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning
Managing Forest Ecosystems Volume 27
Series Editors:
Klaus von Gadow Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
Timo Pukkala University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland and
Margarida Tomé Instituto Superior de Agronomía, Lisbon, Portugal
Aims & Scope: Well-managed forests and woodlands are a renewable resource, producing essential raw material with minimum waste and energy use. Rich in habitat and species diversity, forests may contribute to increased ecosystem stability. They can absorb the effects of unwanted deposition and other disturbances and protect neighbouring ecosystems by maintaining stable nutrient and energy cycles and by preventing soil degradation and erosion. They provide much-needed recreation and their continued existence contributes to stabilizing rural communities. Forests are managed for timber production and species, habitat and process conservation. A subtle shift from multiple-use management to ecosystems management is being observed and the new ecological perspective of multi-functional forest management is based on the principles of ecosystem diversity, stability and elasticity, and the dynamic equilibrium of primary and secondary production. Making full use of new technology is one of the challenges facing forest management today. Resource information must be obtained with a limited budget. This requires better timing of resource assessment activities and improved use of multiple data sources. Sound ecosystems management, like any other management activity, relies on effective forecasting and operational control. The aim of the book series Managing Forest Ecosystems is to present state-of-the-art research results relating to the practice of forest management. Contributions are solicited from prominent authors. Each reference book, monograph or proceedings volume will be focused to deal with a specific context. Typical issues of the series are: resource assessment techniques, evaluating sustainability for even-aged and uneven-aged forests, multi-objective management, predicting forest development, optimizing forest management, biodiversity management and monitoring, risk assessment and economic analysis.
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6247
Matti Maltamo • Erik Næsset • Jari Vauhkonen Editors
Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning Concepts and Case Studies
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Editors Matti Maltamo School of Forest Sciences University of Eastern Finland Joensuu, Finland
Erik Næsset Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås, Norway
Jari Vauhkonen Department of Forest Sciences University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland
ISSN 1568-1319 ISSN 2352-3956 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-017-8662-1 ISBN 978-94-017-8663-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8663-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014935989 © Sprin
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