Remote Sensing of Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas

Section 1: LiDAR Remote Sensing. 1. Review of LiDAR Technology in Tropical Dry Forests. 2. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in Tropical Dry Forests. 3. Emergent Trees in Tropical Dry Forests Using Airborne Laser Scanning. 4. Aboveground Biomass and Biomass Change Estimates of Tropical Dry Forest Using Aerial and Terrestrial LiDAR. 5. Entropy in Tropical Dry Ecosystems. Section 2: Remote Sensing Ecology. 6. Applications of Remote Sensing in Tropical Dry Forests to Predict Biodiversity. 7. Successional Variation in Spectral and Biophysical Leaf Traits in Two Latin American Tropical Dry Forests. 8. Comparing Ground-based and Remote Sensing Methods to Assess Phenological Patterns along a Successional Gradient in a Tropical Dry Forest. 9. Deep Learning with Synergized Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data for Mapping Tropical Dry Forest Successional Stages. 10. Intra- and Interannual Variation in Tree Deciduousness in a Tropical Dry Forest in Yucatan, Mexico: Effects of Successional Age and Topography. 11. Resilience of Tropical Dry Forests Management Systems in the Yucatan Peninsula. 12. Identifying Priority Zones for Reforestation in the Montane Dry Forests of Bolivia with Machine Learning, Remote Sensing and GIS Methods. Section 3: Ecosystem Services. 13. Environmental Drought Approach to Understanding Droughts in Tropical Dry Forests: A Review. 14. Assessing Water Ecosystem Services in the Conservation Area of Guanacaste, Costa Rica: A Hydrological Modeling Approach Integrating Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics. 15. Quantifying Water Provisioning Services at the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica. Section 4: Ecology. 16. Additive Partitioning of Phyllostomid Bat Diversity in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in Minas Gerais State, Southeastern Brazil. 17. Nutrient Deposition Dynamics along a Dry Forest Chronosequence in the Brazilian Semi-Arid Region. 18. Unravelling the factors influencing floristic composition: Insights from a local-scale study in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests.