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Professor Mathias (Mat) Disney

Divisional Director Carbon Cycle
Carbon cycle: land, atmosphere and oceans

Research interests

I am interested in vegetation – particularly trees, forests and the carbon cycle. I use EO data such as ground-based and other lidar, to make measurements of forests and carbon as well as to understand radiative transfer in these systems.

Recent publications

The impact of forest canopy structure on modelled photosynthesis. 2024-11-27

Bitemporal Radiative Transfer Modeling Using Bitemporal 3D-Explicit Forest Reconstruction from Terrestrial Laser Scanning. 2024-09-29

Detecting selective logging in tropical forests with optical satellite data: an experiment in Peru shows texture at 3 m gives the best results. 2024-07-30

Multi-scale lidar measurements suggest miombo woodlands contain substantially more carbon than thought. 2024-07-10

Tree Surface Area Allometry. 2024-04-28

Limitations of estimating branch volume from terrestrial laser scanning. 2024-04

Giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ) in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates. 2024-03

TLS2trees: A scalable tree segmentation pipeline for TLS data. 2023-12

Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications. 2023-02

Analysing individual 3D tree structure using the R package ITSMe. 2023-01

TLS2trees: a scalable tree segmentation pipeline for TLS data. 2022-12-11

Laser scanning reveals potential underestimation of biomass carbon in temperate forest. 2022-10

Sentinel-1 Shadows Used to Quantify Canopy Loss from Selective Logging in Gabon. 2022-08-27

Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions. 2022-08

Implications of 3D Forest Stand Reconstruction Methods for Radiative Transfer Modeling: A Case Study in the Temperate Deciduous Forest. 2022-07-27

Gaining insight into the allometric scaling of trees by utilizing 3d reconstructed tree models – a SimpleForest study. 2022-05-05

Detecting Tropical Forest Degradation Using Optical Satellite Data: An Experiment in Peru Show Texture at 3 M Gives Best Results. 2022-02-09

An Effective Method for InSAR Mapping of Tropical Forest Degradation in Hilly Areas. 2022-01-18

Terrestrial laser scanning to reconstruct branch architecture from harvested branches. 2021-12

To What Extent Can UAV Photogrammetry Replicate UAV LiDAR to Determine Forest Structure? A Test in Two Contrasting Tropical Forests. 2021-12

An Effective Method for InSAR Mapping of Tropical Forest Degradation in Hilly Areas. 2021-11-09

SimpleForest – a comprehensive tool for 3d reconstruction of trees from forest plot point clouds. 2021-07-30

New insights into large tropical tree mass and structure from direct harvest and terrestrial lidar. 2021-02

Quantifying urban forest structure with open-access remote sensing data sets. 2020-04

Transpiration from subarctic deciduous woodlands: Environmental controls and contribution to ecosystem evapotranspiration. 2020-04

3D forest model-assisted validation of the Sentinel-2 SNAP fAPAR product. 2020-03-23

Time for a Plant Structural Economics Spectrum. 2020-03-23

Theoretical uncertainties for global satellite-derived burned area estimates. 2019-08-23

Innovations in Ground and Airborne Technologies as Reference and for Training and Validation: Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS). 2019-07-29

Terrestrial LiDAR: a three‐dimensional revolution in how we look at trees. 2019-06

Leaf and wood classification framework for terrestrial LiDAR point clouds. 2019-05

Theoretical uncertainties for global satellite-derived burned area estimates. 2019-04-03

Extracting individual trees from lidar point clouds using treeseg. 2019-03

Performance of Laser-Based Electronic Devices for Structural Analysis of Amazonian Terra-Firme Forests. 2019-03

Finite element analysis of trees in the wind based on terrestrial laser scanning data. 2019-02

New estimates of leaf angle distribution from terrestrial LiDAR: Comparison with measured and modelled estimates from nine broadleaf tree species. 2019-01

Decoupling Canopy Structure and Leaf Biochemistry: Testing the Utility of Directional Area Scattering Factor (DASF). 2018-11-29

Detecting Human Presence and Influence on Neotropical Forests with Remote Sensing. 2018-10-05

Realistic Forest Stand Reconstruction from Terrestrial LiDAR for Radiative Transfer Modelling. 2018-06

New perspectives on the ecology of tree structure and tree communities through terrestrial laser scanning. 2018-04-06

Non-intersecting leaf insertion algorithm for tree structure models. 2018-04-06

The terrestrial laser scanning revolution in forest ecology. 2018-04-06

Weighing trees with lasers: advances, challenges and opportunities. 2018-04-06

Estimation of above‐ground biomass of large tropical trees with terrestrial LiDAR. 2018-02

A New Global fAPAR and LAI Dataset Derived from Optimal Albedo Estimates: Comparison with MODIS Products. 2016-03