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Nicholas C. Coops

University of British Columbia (UBC)

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

11

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Scholarly Papers (11)

1.

Forest Biomass Estimation Using Deep Learning Data Fusion of Lidar, Multispectral, and Topographic Data Remote Sensing of Environment

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Nov 2024
University of British Columbia (UBC), University of British Columbia (UBC), Government of Canada - Canadian Forest Service, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Polytechnique Montreal
Downloads 156 (485,678)

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Forest Inventory, Tree Component Biomass, Data Fusion, deep learning, LiDAR, Landsat-8, Topography

2.

Tree Species Proportion Estimation Using Deep Learning Based Dual-Stream Data Fusion

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Sep 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), Government of Canada - Canadian Forest Service, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Polytechnique Montreal
Downloads 92 (747,755)

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Sentinel-2, Single-photon lidar, Boreal forest, Attention mechanism, Point-based deep learning, U-Net, Convolutional neural network

3.

Differences in Spectral Traits and Responses to Heat and Drought Stress by Tree Structure in Coastal Douglas-Fir Quantified Using Drone-Acquired Lidar and Multispectral Imagery

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Mar 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Heat stress, drought, LiDAR, drone, multispectral, Coastal Douglas-fir

4.

Temporal Microphytobenthos Dynamics Driven by Mudflat Topography and Environmental Conditions Revealed by High-Spatial-Resolution Multispectral and Optical Uav Imagery Acquisitions

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 27 Nov 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 55 (1,010,164)

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microphytobenthos, biofilm, estuary, intertidal, mudflat, shorebirds, UAV, drone, multispectral, optical, timeseries, seasonal, diel, photogrammetry, co-alignment, microtopography, PIF, z-score, GAM, landscape metrics

5.

Modelling Instream Temperature from Solar Insolation Under Varying Timber Harvesting Intensities Using RPAS Laser Scanning

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Aug 2023
University of British Columbia (UBC), University of British Columbia (UBC), University of British Columbia (UBC), University of British Columbia (UBC), Government of Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Government of Canada - Canadian Forest Service, University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Downloads 55 (1,041,696)

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Insolation, LiDAR, harvesting, simulation model

6.

Linking Microphytobenthos Distribution and Mudflat Geomorphology Under Varying Sedimentary Regimes Using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (Uav)-Acquired Multispectral Reflectance and Photogrammetry

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 08 Mar 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of British Columbia
Downloads 52 (1,052,702)

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microphytobenthos, UAV, multispectral, photogrammetry, mudflat, Estuary

7.

Integration of Tree-Ring Data, Landsat Time Series, and Als-Derived Topographic Variables to Quantify Growth Declines in Black Spruce

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Dec 2023
Université Laval, Université Laval, University of British Columbia (UBC) and Government of Canada - Canadian Forest Service
Downloads 47 (1,121,190)

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Landsat, Airborne laser scanning, tree rings, drought, eastern spruce budworm

8.

Detection of Non-Stand Replacing Disturbances (Nsr) Using Harmonized Landsat-Sentinel-2 Time Series

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Jul 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), affiliation not provided to SSRN and Université Laval
Downloads 38 (1,236,159)

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Continuous Forest Inventory, Forest monitoring, Change detection, Insects, HLS, Landsat

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Responses of Spectral Indices to Heat and Drought Differ by Tree Size in Douglas-Fir

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Aug 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 31 (1,318,317)

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heat, drought, LiDAR, drone, multispectral, coastal Douglas-fir

10.

Quantifying changes in annual lichen volume for woodland caribou in Newfoundland using Landsat time series

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Feb 2026
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), Université Laval, Université Laval and Université Laval
Downloads 24 (1,448,301)

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Lichen volume, Boreal caribou conservation, Landsat, Remote Sensing, boreal forest, Newfoundland

11.

Transferability of Deep Neural Networks for ALS‐Based Forest Biomass Estimation

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Apr 2026
University of British Columbia (UBC), University of British Columbia (UBC), Government of Canada - Canadian Forest Service, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Polytechnique Montreal
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lidar, Remote sensing, fine-tune, residual biomass, New Brunswick, model generalization, EFI