Handbook on Advances in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems

1. Innovations in Remote Sensing of Forests
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

Part I. Airborne LiDAR and Optical Measurements of Forest

2. Overview of LiDAR Technologies and Equipment for Land Cover Scanning
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

3. Software Tools for Terrain and Forest Modelling
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

4. Data Fusion for Evaluation of Woodland Parameters
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

5. Tree Modelling in Virtual Reality Environment
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

Part II. Individual Tree Modelling

6. Realistic Tree Modelling
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

7. Digital Modelling of Terrain Surface
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

Part III. Landscape Scene Modelling

8. Texturing of Landscape Scenes
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

9. Large Scene Rendering
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

10. Scene Rendering Under Meteorological Impacts
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

Part IV. Forest Ecosystem Modelling

11. Lighting and Shadows Rendering in Natural Scenes
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

12. Modelling of Forest Ecosystems
Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C. Jain

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)