Gera Gulf, a relatively small embayment on the island of Lesvos, serves as a representative example of a semi-enclosed, shallow marine system in Greece. Previous studies revealed that the gulf seafloor is occupied by numerous small reefs that are evenly distributed. Recently, seismic surveys together with gravity coring have shown numerous relict reefs within a fine-grained matrix, hosted at di…
The northeastern region of India is one of the six most seismically active convergent plate tectonic areas in the world. The north–south convergence along the Indo-Tibetan Himalayan Ranges and the east–west subduction within the Indo-Burma Ranges create a complex stress regime, resulting in significant seismic activity and a history of great/large earthquakes. The region’s intricate strai…
Regional compilations of multi-element geochemistry can show shifts of level and dynamic range between component surveys, for example when analyses have been made using different laboratories or procedures or at different times. To create a unified composite picture of the geochemistry over a region, some form of relevelling of individual surveys may be needed. Existing treatments have focused …
It is estimated that over 80% of the world’s oceans are unexplored and unmapped limiting our understanding of ocean systems. Due to data collection rates of modern survey technologies such as swathe multibeam echosounders (MBES) and initiatives such as Seabed 2030, there is ever-increasing increasing volume of seafloor data collected. These large data volumes present significant challenges ar…
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. …
Change detection from traditional 2D optical images has limited capability to model the changes in the height or shape of objects. Change detection using 3D point cloud from photogrammetry or LiDAR surveying can fill this gap by providing critical depth information. While most existing machine learning based 3D point cloud change detection methods are supervised, they severely depend on the ava…
Unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAV) with RGB-cameras are affordable and versatile devices for the generation of a series of remote sensing products that can be used for forest inventory tasks, such as creating high-resolution orthomosaics and canopy height models. The latter may serve purposes including tree species identification, forest damage assessments, canopy height or timber stock assessmen…