Presentations from workshop

Here are the presentations from the LiDAR workshop.

Session 1: Forest inventory and carbon assessment


• LiDAR in regional sampling-based applications and efforts to monitor effects of climate change (Ross Nelson, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)



• Efforts to develop scanning LiDAR as a method for regional forest and carbon inventory (Erik Næsset, INA/UMB)



• Assessment of efficiency of LiDAR in regional forest inventories (Terje Gobakken, INA/UMB)
  
  
• LiDAR in operational forest management, and efforts to improve and extend the products (Tord Aasland, Prevista and INA/UMB)


Session 2: LiDAR as a tool in carbon cycle studies


• Modeling carbon dynamics of deciduous forest (Paul Bolstad, University of Minnesota)



• Linking soil organic carbon pools and above-ground biomass in boreal forest ecosystems (Mikael Ohlson, INA/UMB)



• Estimating tree biomass in a sub-alpine gradient (Petter Nilsen, Skogforsk)



• LiDAR - one of several great leaps forward for biogeochemists (Peter Dörsch and Lars R. Bakken, Dep. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, UMB)


Session 3: Forest structure and ecological processes


• Depicting tree structure and detection of defoliation (Svein Solberg, Skogforsk)



• Tree structure derived from LiDAR data by soft modeling (Ole Martin Bollandsås, INA/UMB)



• Relationships between canopy structure and natural regeneration (Kjersti Holt Hanssen, Skogforsk)