This edited book is a collection of information on recent advancements
in remote sensing for forestry application. The main focus of this book
is to address the novel applications in remote sensing in terms of
recent techniques, sensors, methods and data collection. Remote sensing
has been used for many decades. Today, remote sensing is heavily
utilized in forest management, which is acquired from airborne and
space-borne platforms using satellite data. In recent years, there have
been rapid advances in the new types of sensors. The new generations of
satellite sensors are introduced not only to provide important
information on forest ecosystems, but also to improve the techniques and
accuracies obtained by the traditional approaches. Researchers have
become increasingly aware of the potential of remote sensing to address
important forestry issues and challenges. The number of forestry
publications using remote sensing has grown very rapidly, and this is
noticeable with many recent technologies and applications. This book
provides valuable source of reference to foresters, researchers,
ecologists, climate change scientists and scholars who use remote
sensing in their work. Furthermore, it serves as an academic book for
undergraduate and graduate students of forestry, agriculture, natural
resources and environmental sciences. The book demonstrates and engages
the students how the new advancements in remote sensing technology and
theory relate to the many real-world forestry applications. It gives
readers deeper understanding on how remote sensing has come a long way
and evolved into a mature science in the past five decades.
