Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin

TL;DR: Very high-resolution monitoring reduces uncertainty in carbon emissions for REDD programs while uncovering fundamental environmental controls on forest carbon storage and their interactions with land-use change.

TL;DR: The Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) provides in-flight fusion of high-fidelity visible/near-infrared imaging spectrometer data with scanning, waveform light detection and ranging (wLiDAR) data, along with an integrated navigation and data processing approach, that results in geo-orthorectified products for vegetation structure, biochemistry and physiology as well as the underlying topography.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the data dimensionality of two contrasting scenes (a built environment at Stanford University and a lowland tropical forest in Amazonia) and demonstrate that precision data fusion greatly increases the dimensionality.

TL;DR: The results are the first to quantitatively illustrate the extent to which herbivores can affect the 3-D structural diversity of vegetation across large savanna landscapes.

TL;DR: An airborne remote sensing system that mapped the location and impacts of five highly invasive plant species across 221,875 ha of Hawaiian ecosystems concludes that this diverse array of alien plant species is changing the fundamental 3D structure of native Hawaiian rain forests.