Spatially continuous estimates of forest canopy height at national to global scales are critical for quantifying forest carbon storage, understanding forest ecosystem processes, and developing forest management and restoration policies to mitigate global climate change. Spaceborne light detection and ranging (lidar) platforms, especially the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) and Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation […]
Forests of the Sierra Nevada (SN) mountain range are valuable natural heritages for the region and the country, and tree height is an important forest structure parameter for understanding the SN forest ecosystem. There is still a need in the accurate estimation of wall-to-wall SN tree height distribution at fine spatial resolution. In this study, […]
On April 26, 2019, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation announced the list of obtainer of China’s Post-doctoral Science Fund of the 65th batch. Yumei Li, a post-doctor of the digital ecology group, was awarded first-class funding. This fully affirms her excellent scientific research ability and good innovation ability.
The 2018 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGRASS) has been held in Valencia, Spain on July 22-27, 2018. The theme for IGARSS 2018 highlights the pressing demands for “Observing, Understanding and Forecasting the Dynamics of Our Planet”. More than 2,000 researchers from all over the world attended the meeting and shared the significant research […]
Jin shichao, a PhD candidate of the digital ecology group, won the first prize and the best popularity prize of the 2018 Postgraduate Academic Forum of institute of botany, Chinese academy of sciences. His speech them is “A Deep Learning Pipeline for High-Throughput Maize Phenotyping from Lidar Data”, which introduced three main advancements in the […]
Prof. Roger Bales and Prof. Martha Conklin were invited to give lectures on September 10, 2018, at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Roger Bales gave a talk about “Making up for lost snow: lessons from a warming Sierra Nevada”, focusing on five aspects: mountain climate, water balance, snow monitoring, California drought conditions […]
On October 11-12, 2018, the First UAV Industrial Innovation and Application Congress (2018), sponsored by the UAV Application and Control Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and organized by the Digital Ecosystem Group of the State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was successfully held […]
From June 20th to 24th, 2018, The 4rd workshop on LiDAR Application in Forest Ecology, organized by the Digital Ecology Research Group, was held at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Nearly 300 students from more than 80 universities and research institutes, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Wuhan University, Fudan […]
From January 9th to 10th, 2019, the “New Generation China Vegetation Mapping” provincial mapping workshop was successfully held at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This seminar is based on the “Biodiversity and Ecological Security” project of the “Global Data Science Project” of the Strategic Pilot Science and Technology Project (Class A) of […]
Dr. Maggi Kelly from University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) visited our group from March 30th to April 13th for discussing potential collaborations between UC Berkeley and Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kelly is currently a professor and cooperative extension specialist in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management department of UC Berkeley, […]