CO2 capture and storage (CCS) technology is likely to be widely deployed in the coming decades in response to major climate and economics drivers: CCS is part of every clean energy pathway that limits global warming to 2 °C or less and receives significant CO2 tax credits in the United States. These drivers are likely to stimulate the capture, transport, and storage of hundreds of millions …
Accurate individual tree locations enable efficient forest inventory management and automation, support precise forest surveys, management decisions and future individual-tree harvesting plans. In this paper, we compared and analyzed in detail the performance of an ultra-wideband (UWB) data-driven method for mapping individual tree locations in boreal forest sample plots of varying complexity. …
The rotation of a vector around the origin and in a plane constitutes a minimal rotation. Such a rotation is of vital importance in many applications. Examples are the re-orientation of spacecraft or antennas with minimal effort, the smooth interpolation between sensor poses, and the drawing of circular arcs in 2D and 3D. In numerical linear algebra, minimal rotations in different planes are us…
The application of deep learning methods to remote sensing data has produced good results in recent studies. A promising application area is automatic land cover classification (semantic segmentation) from very high-resolution satellite imagery. However, the deep learning methods require large, labelled training datasets that are suitable for the study area. Map data can be used as training dat…
The LiDAR data within this book is collected from 27 areas in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, and Haiti and includes 183 figures created to introduce the concepts, methods, and applications in a clear context. It provides 11 step-by-step projects predominately based on Esri's ArcGIS software to support seamiess integration of LiDAR products and other GIS data. The first six projects …