Ville Kankare
Adjunct Professor (docent) | D.Sc. (Agr. & For.)
viveka@utu.fi |
Remote Sensing | Geospatial Technologies | Laser scanning | Point cloud processing | Forest mensuration | Precision Forestry
Digital Waters Flagship (www.digitalwaters.fi)
I have always been eager to explore and observe nature, paired with a lifelong fascination for technology. This passion has shaped my research career over the last decade during which I have built a strong expertise and skill sets in forest mensuration and remote sensing with particular focus on close-range remote sensing technologies such as laser scanning (85+ peer-reviewed publ.).
I currently hold the position of University Research Fellow at the Digital Waters Flagship at University of Turku. My research ambitions focus on investigating how geo-, bio- and hydrodiversities interact in the northern riverine environments, shaping the ecosystem resilience and functionality while providing critical ecosystem services. I am specially interested in how climate change and land-use dynamics alter the interactions through time. My work integrates and develops cutting-edge geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence driven methodologies, creating novel ways to analyze the complex environmental datasets.
- Urban-Tree-Attribute Update Using Multisource Single-Tree Inventory (2014)
- Forests
- Validation of Mobile Laser Scanning for Understory Tree Characterization in Urban Forest (2014)
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
- Airborne laser scanning and digital stereo imagery measures of forest structure: comparative results and implications to forest mapping and inventory update (2013)
- Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
- Area-Based Mapping of Defoliation of Scots Pine Stands Using Airborne Scanning LiDAR (2013)
- Remote Sensing
- Classification of Needle Loss of Individual Scots Pine Trees by Means of Airborne Laser Scanning (2013)
- Forests
- Individual tree biomass estimation using terrestrial laser scanning (2013)
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Retrieval of Forest Aboveground Biomass and Stem Volume with Airborne Scanning LiDAR (2013)
- Remote Sensing
- Single tree biomass modelling using airborne laser scanning (2013)
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Stem biomass estimation based on stem reconstruction from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds (2013)
- REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
- Tree mapping using airborne, terrestrial and mobile laser scanning - A case study in a heterogeneous urban forest (2013)
- Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
- Combination of individual tree detection and area-based approach in imputation of forest variables using airborne laser data (2012)
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Prediction of plot-level forest variables using TerraSAR-X stereo SAR data (2012)
- Remote Sensing of Environment