Jenny Lovell

TL;DR: In this paper, the capacity of current airborne and ground-based ranging systems to provide data from which useful forest inventory parameters can be derived is investigated and four contrasting study sites were established within an existing study area in the Bago and Maragle State Forests, New South Wales, Australia.

TL;DR: A novel, ground-based laser system, Echidna, is presented that can make a wide range of measurements of forest structure, including LAI, and use of the system to provide field data and derived gap probabilities in the form of a 'hemispherical photograph with range' is demonstrated.

TL;DR: A prototype upward-scanning, under-canopy, near-infrared light detection and ranging (lidar) system, the Echidna® validation instrument (EVI), built by CSIRO Australia, retrieves forest stand structural parameters, including mean diameter at breast height (DBH), stand height, distance to tree, stem count density (stems/area), leaf-area index (LAI), and stand foliage profile with height.

TL;DR: The use of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) for plot-scale measurement was first demonstrated over a decade ago, with the intimation that these instruments could replace manual measurement methods as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A ground-based, upward-scanning, near-infrared lidar, the Echidna® validation instrument (EVI), built by CSIRO Australia, retrieves forest stand structural parameters, including mean diameter at breast height (DBH), stem count density (stems/area), basal area, and above-ground woody biomass with very good accuracy in six New England hardwood and conifer forest stands as discussed by the authors.