LiDAR Utility for Natural Resource Managers

Remote Sensing

Andrew Thomas Hudak¹  Jeffrey Scott Evans² 

[1] Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 1221 S. Main St., Moscow, ID 83843, USA;The Nature Conservancy, North America Region, 117 E. Mountain Ave., Suite 201, Fort Collins, CO 80524, USA; E-Mail:

关键词: LiDAR applications;    management;    natural resources;    remote sensing;    review;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs1040934

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Applications of LiDAR remote sensing are exploding, while moving from the research to the operational realm. Increasingly, natural resource managers are recognizing the tremendous utility of LiDAR-derived information to make improved decisions. This review provides a cross-section of studies, many recent, that demonstrate the relevance of LiDAR across a suite of terrestrial natural resource disciplines including forestry, fire and fuels, ecology, wildlife, geology, geomorphology, and surface hydrology. We anticipate that interest in and reliance upon LiDAR for natural resource management, both alone and in concert with other remote sensing data, will continue to rapidly expand for the foreseeable future.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© 2009 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.