Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research
Research Highlights: the wide variety of multispectral sensors that currently exist make it possible to improve the study of forest systems and ecosystem services. Background and Objectives: this study aims to analyze the current usefulness of remote sensing in forest management and ecosystem servic...
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| author | Abad Segura, Emilio González Zamar, Mariana Daniela Vázquez Cano, Esteban López Meneses, Eloy |
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| description | Research Highlights: the wide variety of multispectral sensors that currently exist make it possible to improve the study of forest systems and ecosystem services. Background and Objectives: this study aims to analyze the current usefulness of remote sensing in forest management and ecosystem services sciences, and to identify future lines of research on these issues worldwide during the period 1976–2019. Materials and Methods: a bibliometric technique is applied to 2066 articles published between 1976 and 2019 on these topics to find findings on scientific production and key subject areas. Results: scientific production has increased annually, so that in the last five years, 50.34% of all articles have been published. The thematic areas in which more articles were linked were environmental science, agricultural, and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences. Seven lines of research have been identified that generate contributions on this topic. In addition, the analysis of the relevance of the keywords has detected the ten main future directions of research. The growing worldwide trend of scientific production shows interest in developing aspects of this field of study. Conclusions: this study contributes to the academic, scientific, and institutional discussion to improve decision-making, and proposes new scenarios and uses of this technology to improve the administration and management of forest resources. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-84472023-04-13T07:47:37Z Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research Abad Segura, Emilio González Zamar, Mariana Daniela Vázquez Cano, Esteban López Meneses, Eloy remote sensing forest management ecosystem service scientific production research Research Highlights: the wide variety of multispectral sensors that currently exist make it possible to improve the study of forest systems and ecosystem services. Background and Objectives: this study aims to analyze the current usefulness of remote sensing in forest management and ecosystem services sciences, and to identify future lines of research on these issues worldwide during the period 1976–2019. Materials and Methods: a bibliometric technique is applied to 2066 articles published between 1976 and 2019 on these topics to find findings on scientific production and key subject areas. Results: scientific production has increased annually, so that in the last five years, 50.34% of all articles have been published. The thematic areas in which more articles were linked were environmental science, agricultural, and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences. Seven lines of research have been identified that generate contributions on this topic. In addition, the analysis of the relevance of the keywords has detected the ten main future directions of research. The growing worldwide trend of scientific production shows interest in developing aspects of this field of study. Conclusions: this study contributes to the academic, scientific, and institutional discussion to improve decision-making, and proposes new scenarios and uses of this technology to improve the administration and management of forest resources. 2020-09-14T07:18:43Z 2020-09-14T07:18:43Z 2020-09-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1999-4907 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8447 en https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/11/9/969 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | remote sensing forest management ecosystem service scientific production research Abad Segura, Emilio González Zamar, Mariana Daniela Vázquez Cano, Esteban López Meneses, Eloy Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research |
| title | Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research |
| title_full | Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research |
| title_fullStr | Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research |
| title_short | Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research |
| title_sort | remote sensing applied in forest management to optimize ecosystem services: advances in research |
| topic | remote sensing forest management ecosystem service scientific production research |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8447 |
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