Douglas C. Morton

TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-Monte Carlo ray tracing approach in the Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART) model is proposed to simulate LiDAR waveforms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between forest loss and fire at 500m resolution based on satellite-derived data for the 2003-2018 period and found that on average, 38% of global forest loss was associated with fire, and this fraction remained relatively stable throughout the study period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used pre-and post-fire airborne lidar data to directly estimate changes in canopy vertical structure and surface elevation for a 2005 boreal forest fire on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, finding that both canopy and surface losses were strongly linked to pre-fire species composition and exhibited important fine-scale spatial variability at sub-30 m resolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the DECAF (DEforestation CArbon Fluxes) model was applied to estimate fire emissions from various land-use transitions during 2001-2005 in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used time series of annual MapBiomas land cover data to generate the first estimates of SV extent, age, and net carbon uptake in the Brazilian Amazon between 1985 and 2017.