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The remote sensing of forests has reached a developmental stage that allows practitioners to expend the largest proportion of project efforts on information generation, rather than data preparation. The significant progress that has been realised in the remote sensing of forests in recent years is related to the three linked developments of:
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Greater technological sophistication in sensor design and deployment (Technological Advances),
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Explosive growth in information extraction techniques and user-driven tools for analysis of imagery (Data Processing), and
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A parallel improvement in understanding how and why remotely sensed data and methods are important in forestry and forest science (Information Synthesis).
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Wulder, M.A., Franklin, S.E. (2003). Remote Sensing of Forest Environments, Introduction. In: Wulder, M.A., Franklin, S.E. (eds) Remote Sensing of Forest Environments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0306-4_1
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