Multi-Project Summary
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Here at the Vogeler lab, we have extensive airborne lidar processing and spatial modeling expertise. We work on multiple projects focused on characterizing airborne lidar data for characterizing forest and woodland structures and integrating that information within a diversity of research and management applications. This includes pairing the lidar structure outputs with field data to predict forest inventory metrics across continuous extents (e.g., biomass, volume) to inform management planning, as well as integrating the structure patterns within wildlife habitat analyses. We also work closely with end-user partners to integrate lidar projects within monitoring or planning frameworks.
To support our lidar-based projects, we also work to standardize lidar processing approaches across numerous lidar acquitions with varying collection parameters and develop repeatable processing packages to support project partners for future lidar processing needs. While lidar may be the focal dataset for many of our projects, we also frequently incorporate lidar structure information as calibration data paired with other remote sensing data to expand structure metrics across broader areas or through time, or to validate structure measures from other sources as lidar is often considered the factory standard. Our lidar projects (and available processed data sets) include numerous collections all across the western U.S., with near-complete coverage within some states (although representing different years of lidar acquisitions). |
Research Objectives (General Across Projects)
Objective 1Processing of lidar data for standardizing across collections and developing high-quality direct measures of gridded forest structure information and/or single tree extraction products.
Objective 2Fuse lidar struture products with additional remote sensing data sets for expanding the spatial and temporal extents of the lidar collections, or integrate the lidar measures as validation of structure products from other data sources.
Objective 3Integrate lidar outputs within wildlife habitat modeling, understanding post-disturbance forest patterns, and to inform forest monitoring and maangement planning frameworks.
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Figure 1. Example lidar point cloud clip that corresponds to the area of a single 1/10th acre forest inventory plot.
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Project Outputs
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Example Publications
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Spatial Data Products
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Project Team & Funding
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Collaborators
Dependent on specific project.
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