Develop total aboveground biomass (AGB) and dominant tree height model using LiDAR data

Up-to-date forest inventories are essential for achieving sustainable forest management by providing information on forest structural attributes, species composition, and health status. The traditional method to produce forest inventories by conducting field work can be time consuming and costly. The development of LiDAR technique can support the need by characterizing forest attributes in an accurate and cost effective manner.



NDVI time series analysis in R

The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data from 2007 to 2017 for a study area in Alberta was derived from the MODIS Terra product MOD13Q1. A time series analysis was performed to study the change of NDVI across years.