Proceedings of SilviLaser 2008: 8th international conference on LiDAR applications in forest assessment and inventory. Hill R.A., Rosette, J. and Suárez, J. (Eds). September 2008. Edinburgh, UK.

ISBN 978-0-85538-774-7

Index of Papers

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Poster Session papers

Extraction of vegetation for topographic mapping from full-waveform airborne laser scanning data
Cici Alexander, Kevin Tansey, Nicholas Tate, Sarah Smith-Voysey and Jörg Kaduk p.343

Use of airborne LIDAR in the estimation of individual tree heights in natural forest
Marcos Vinicius Giongo Alves, Ugo Chiavetta, Gherardo Chirici and Marco Marchetti p.354

LINHE Project: development of new protocols for the integration of digital cameras and LiDAR, NIR and Hyperspectral sensors
R. Antolín, C. Calzado-Martínez, A. Gómez, J.A. Manzanera, J.E. Meroño, D. Pedrazzani, H.H. Pérez, A. Roldán-Zamarrón, I. Santos and R. Valbuena p.355

A proposed approach incorporating lidar and aerial imagery for large area estimates of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) volume killed by mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)
Christoher W. Bater, Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder and Joanne C. White p.365

Estimation of bivariate diameter and height distributions using ALS
Johannes Breidenbach, Christian Gläser and Matthias Schmidt p.366

Monitoring capercaillie habitat using ALS
Johannes Breidenbach and Veronika Braunisch p.373

Characterization of forest stands using full waveform laser scanner and airborne hyperspectral data
Henning Buddenbaum and Stephan Seeling p.377

Ticking all the boxes: the added value of heritage surveys of woodland by LiDAR
P. Crow, B.J. Devereux and G.S. Amable p.384

Small footprint, full waveform LiDAR modelling of canopy 3d structure in complex, semi-natural woodland communities
B.J. Devereux, G.S. Amable, J. Liadsky and P. Crow p.386

Estimating forest biomass in mixed broad-leaved forests of the Italian pre-Alps
Sara Fusco, Dirk Pflugmacher, Alan Kirschbaum, Warren Cohen, Donato Chiatante and Antonio Montagnoli p.387

A comparison of Gradient Nearest Neighbor and Most Similar Neighbor imputation methods to map forest cover types of Western Oregon
Donald Gagliasso and Hailemariam Temesgen p.388

Remote mining: from clustering to DTM
Jorge García-Gutiérrez, Francisco Martínez-Álvarez, Daniel Laguna-Ruiz and José Carlos Riquelme p.389

Planimetric offset adjustment of multitemporal laser scanner data
Mariano García, Elena Prado, David Riaño, Emilio Chuvieco and Mark Danson p.398

LiDAR mapping of canopy gaps in continuous cover forests; a comparison of canopy height model and point cloud based techniques
Rachel Gaulton and Tim J. Malthus p.407

Integration of intensity information and echo distribution in the filtering process of LIDAR data in vegetated areas
Jens Goepfert, Uwe Soergel, and Alexander Brzank p.417

Land cover classification of rural areas using LiDAR data: a comparative study in the context of fire risk
Gil Gonçalves, Luís Gonçalves-Seco, Fabian Reys and David Miranda p.427

Using LiDAR technology in forestry harvest planning
David González, Julio Becker, Eduardo Torres, José Albistur, Manuel Escudero, Rodrigo Fuentes, Helio Hinostroza and Felipe Donoso. P.437

Using LIDAR and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index to remotely determine LAI and percent canopy cover
Griffin Alicia, Popescu Sorin and Zhao Kaiguang p.446

Using airborne LiDAR and Landsat data to derive biomass at regional scale in the Canadian northern boreal forest
L. Guindon, Andre Beaudoin, Ross Nelson and J. Boudreau p.456

Utilization of tree species stratum data in forest planning simulations
Markus Holopainen, Antti Mäkinen, Mikko Vastaranta, Jussi Rasinmäki, Juha Hyyppä, Hannu Hyyppä and Petri Rönnholm p.458

Accuracy of automatic tree extraction using airborne laser scanner data
Harri Kaartinen, Juha Hyyppä, Xinlian Liang, Paula Litkey, Antero Kukko, Xiaowei Yu, Hannu Hyyppä and Markus Holopainen p.467

Distinguishing between live and dead tree biomass on North Rim of the Grand Canyon with lidar data
Yunsuk Kim, Zhiqiang Yang, Warren B Cohen, and Chris Lauver p.477

Detection of weak and overlapping pulses from waveform airborne laser scanning data
Yu-Ching Lin, Jon Mills and Sarah Smith-Voysey p.478

Estimation of tree lists from airborne laser scanning data using a combination of analysis on single tree and raster cell level
Eva Lindberg, Johan Holmgren, Kenneth Olofsson, Jörgen Wallerman and Håkan Olsson p.488

Observational evidence for links between increased drought severity and land-cover change
Sietse Los, Jacqueline Rosette and Peter North p.497

An analysis of the relationships between tree growth and crown information derived from airborne LiDAR data
Tohru Nakajima, Yasumasa hirata, Takuya Hiroshima, Naoyuki Furuya, and Satoshi Tatsuharas p.498

An improved method of individual tree detection using airborne LiDAR
Katsumasa Oono, Yoichi Numata and Atsushi Hirano p.508

Mean height and variability of height derived from lidar data and Landsat images relationship
Cristina Pascual, Warren Cohen, Antonio García-Abril, Lara Arroyo, Rubén Valbuena, Susana Martí-Fernández and José Antonio Manzanera p.517

The comparison of airborne laser scanning-based probability layers as auxiliary information for assessing coarse woody debris
Annukka Pesonen, Matti Maltamo, Petteri Packalén and Olli Leino p.526

Regional applicability of forest height and aboveground biomass models for the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
Dirk Pflugmacher, Warren B. Cohen, Robert E. Kennedy and Michael A. Lefsky p.536

Neural network and quad-tree approach to extract tree position and height from LiDAR data
Francesco Pirotti p.537

Tree filtering for high density airborne LiDAR data
M.Z.A. Rahman and B. Gorte p.544

Individual tree recognition using LIDAR and aerial images: preliminary results
Ramon Riera, Mario Lamfri and Cristina Vega-García p.554

Methods for improving the quality of a true orthomosaic of Vexcel UltraCam images created using a lidar digital surface model
Benoît St-Onge p.555

Quality assurance and quality control procedures of airborne scanning LiDAR for a nation-wide carbon inventory of planted forests
Peter Stephens, Robert McGaughey, Timothy Dougherty, Tim Farrier, Bridget Geard and David Loubse p.563

Combining airborne laser scanning and GIS data to estimate timber volume of forest stands based on yield models
Christoph Straub, Matthias Dees, Holger Weinacker and Barbara Koch p.572

A practical application of airborne LiDAR for forestry management in Scotland
Juan Suárez, Jacqueline Rosette, Bruce Nicoll and Barry Gardiner p.581

Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) habitat analysis via remote sensing
Scott Tweddale, H. Alexis Londo, Joelle Carney, David Evans, Scott Roberts, Robert Parker and Stephen Grado p.586

Lidar and true-orthorectification of infrared aerial imagery of high Pinus sylvestris forest in mountainous relief
Rubén Valbuena, Tomás Fernández De Sevilla, Francisco Mauro, Cristina Pascual, Antonio García-Abril, Susana Martín and José Antonio Manzanera p.596

Comparison of different Laser-based methods to measure stem diameter
Mikko Vastaranta, Timo Melkas, Markus Holopainen, Harri Kaartinen, Juha Hyyppä and Hannu Hyyppä p.606

Estimating crown base height for Scots pine by means of the 3D geometry of airborne laser scanning data
Jari Vauhkonen p.616

Potential and limits of extraction of forest attributes by fusion of medium point density LiDAR data with ADS40 and RC30 images
Lars Waser, Christian Ginzler, Meinrad Kuechler and Emmanuel Baltsavias p.625

Developing strategies for large scale forest inventories combining LiDAR data, satellite imagery and regional yield models
Markus Weidenbach, Roeland de Kok, Piotr Wezyk and Stanislaw Szombara p.635

Describing the selected canopy layer parameters of the Scots pine stands using ALS data
Wezyk Piotr, Tompalski Piotr, Marta Szostak, Marcin Pierzchalski and Mateusz Glista p.636