AIMC Topic: Forests

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Identifying of Quercus vulcanica and Q. frainetto growing in different environments through deep learning analysis.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Quercus is one of the important elements of forests worldwide. But the diagnosis of the species in this genus in particular using leaves is pretty challenging due to the presence of natural hybrids and phenotypically plastic trait expression. In this...

Extreme fire weather is the major driver of severe bushfires in southeast Australia.

Science bulletin
In Australia, the proportion of forest area that burns in a typical fire season is less than for other vegetation types. However, the 2019-2020 austral spring-summer was an exception, with over four times the previous maximum area burnt in southeast ...

The Effect of Synergistic Approaches of Features and Ensemble Learning Algorith on Aboveground Biomass Estimation of Natural Secondary Forests Based on ALS and Landsat 8.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Although the combination of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data and optical imagery and machine learning algorithms were proved to improve the estimation of aboveground biomass (AGB), the synergistic approaches of different data and ensemble learning ...

Characterizing and forecasting the responses of tropical forest leaf phenology to El Nino by machine learning algorithms.

PloS one
Climate change and global warming have serious adverse impacts on tropical forests. In particular, climate change may induce changes in leaf phenology. However, in tropical dry forests where tree diversity is high, species responses to climate change...

Prediction of soil-bearing capacity on forest roads by statistical approaches.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The soil-bearing capacity is one of the important criteria in dimensioning the superstructure. In Turkey, predictability of California Bearing Ratio values, which may be used in the planning and dimensioning of forest roads, of which about 26% lacks ...

Hyperspectral band selection and modeling of soil organic matter content in a forest using the Ranger algorithm.

PloS one
Effective soil spectral band selection and modeling methods can improve modeling accuracy. To establish a hyperspectral prediction model of soil organic matter (SOM) content, this study investigated a forested Eucalyptus plantation in Huangmian Fores...

Predicting direct and indirect non-target impacts of biocontrol agents using machine-learning approaches.

PloS one
Biological pest control (i.e. 'biocontrol') agents can have direct and indirect non-target impacts, and predicting these effects (especially indirect impacts) remains a central challenge in biocontrol risk assessment. The analysis of ecological netwo...

Identifying the vegetation type in Google Earth images using a convolutional neural network: a case study for Japanese bamboo forests.

BMC ecology
BACKGROUND: Classifying and mapping vegetation are crucial tasks in environmental science and natural resource management. However, these tasks are difficult because conventional methods such as field surveys are highly labor-intensive. Identificatio...

A Machine Learning Ensemble Approach Based on Random Forest and Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Risk Evaluation of Regional Flood Disaster: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta, China.

International journal of environmental research and public health
The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is one of the most developed regions in China. This is also a flood-prone area where flood disasters are frequently experienced; the situations between the people-land nexus and the people-water nexus are very complicate...

Artificial neural networks: Modeling tree survival and mortality in the Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil.

The Science of the total environment
Models to predict tree survival and mortality can help to understand vegetation dynamics and to predict effects of climate change on native forests. The objective of the present study was to use Artificial Neural Networks, based on the competition in...