This study assessed a lidar-based, object-oriented (segmentation) approach to forest volume and aboveground biomass modeling. The study area in the Piedmont physiographic region of Virginia is composed of temperate coniferous, deciduous, and mixed stands. Segmentation objects, hierarchical in terms of area and ranging from 0.035 to 5.632 ha/object, were created using a lidar-derived canopy heig...

This study presents a novel landscape classification map of the Republic Ireland and is first to identify broad classes by incorporating physiographic land cover data. The responds commitments classify Irish as signatory European Landscape Convention. methodology applied series clustering iterations determine an objective multivariate units datasets. results determined nine statistically signif...