Handbook on Advances in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Paradigms and Applications in Forest Landscape Modeling /

• Main Authors: Favorskaya, Margarita N. (Author), Jain, Lakhmi C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 122
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Geographical information systems.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This book presents the latest advances in remote-sensing and geographic information systems and applications. It is divided into four parts, focusing on Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Optical Measurements of Forests; Individual Tree Modelling; Landscape Scene Modelling; and Forest...

Table of Contents:

• Innovations in Remote Sensing of Forests
• Overview of LiDAR Technologies and Equipment for Land Cover Scanning
• Software Tools for Terrain and Forest Modelling
• Data Fusion for Evaluation of Woodland Parameters
• Tree Modelling in Virtual Reality Environment
• Realistic Tree Modelling
• Digital Modelling of Terrain Surface
• Texturing of Landscape Scenes
• Large Scene Rendering
• Scene Rendering under Meteorological Impacts
• Lighting and Shadows Rendering in Natural Scenes
• Modelling of Forest Ecosystems.