Aboveground biomass estimation in amazonian tropical forests: a comparison of aircraft- and GatorEye UAV-borne LiDAR data in the Chico Mendes extractive reserve in Acre, Brazil
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2020
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Tropical forests are often located in difficult-to-access areas, which make high-quality forest structure information difficult and expensive to obtain by traditional field-based approaches. LiDAR (acronym for Light Detection And Ranging) data have been used throughout the world to
produce time-efficient and wall-to-wall structural parameter estimates for monitoring in native and
commercial forests. In this study, we compare products and aboveground biomass (AGB) estimations from LiDAR data acquired using an aircraft-borne system in 2015 and data collected by the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based GatorEye Unmanned Flying Laboratory in 2017 for ten forest inventory plots located in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in Acre state, southwestern Brazilian Amazon. The LiDAR products were similar and comparable among the two platforms and sensors. Principal
differences between derived products resulted from the GatorEye system flying lower and slower and having increased returns per second than the aircraft, resulting in a much higher point density overall (11.3 ± 1.8 vs. 381.2 ± 58 pts/m2). Differences in ground point density, however, were much smaller among the systems, due to the larger pulse area and increased number of returns per pulse of
the aircraft system, with the GatorEye showing an approximately 50% higher ground point density (0.27 ± 0.09 vs. 0.42 ± 0.09). The LiDAR models produced by both sensors presented similar results for digital elevation models and estimated AGB. Our results validate the ability for UAV-borne
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Forest inventory, Forest monitoring, Forest structure, Remote sensing
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D’OLIVEIRA, Marcus V. N et al. Aboveground biomass estimation in amazonian tropical forests: a comparison of aircraft- and GatorEye UAV-borne LiDAR data in the Chico Mendes extractive reserve in Acre, Brazil. Remote Sensing, v. 12, n. 11, e1754, 2020. DOI: 10.3390/rs12111754. Disponível em: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/11/1754. Acesso em: 5 ago. 2024.