Alvaro Lau

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

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Alvaro Lau is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Alvaro Lau has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Environmental Engineering, 14 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Alvaro Lau's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (17 papers), Forest ecology and management (14 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Alvaro Lau is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (17 papers), Forest ecology and management (14 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Alvaro Lau collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Belgium. Alvaro Lau's co-authors include Harm Bartholomeus, Benjamin Brede, Martin Herold, Kim Calders, Lammert Kooistra, Pasi Raumonen, Mathias Disney, Andrew Burt, Christopher Martius and Alexander Shenkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Sensors and Forest Ecology and Management.

In The Last Decade

Alvaro Lau

19 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Data acquisition considerations for Terrestrial Laser Scanning of forest plots

2017 269 citations Phil Wilkes, Alvaro Lau et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evaluating airborne, mobile and terrestrial laser scanning for urban tree inventories: A case study in Ghent, Belgium 2024 ·Urban forestry & urban greening ·(unknown), Kim Calders, Harm Bartholomeus, Alvaro Lau, Louise Terryn, (unknown), Hans Verbeeck	4
2	Improving the 3D representation of plant architecture and parameterization efficiency of functional–structural tree models using terrestrial LiDAR data 2024 ·AoB Plants ·(unknown), Jochem B. Evers, Alvaro Lau	0
3	StrucNet: a global network for automated vegetation structure monitoring 2023 ·Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·Kim Calders, Benjamin Brede, Glenn Newnham, Darius Culvenor, John Armston, Harm Bartholomeus, Anne Griebel, (unknown), Samuli Junttila, Alvaro Lau, Shaun R. Levick, (unknown), Niall Origo, Marion Pfeifer, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold	19
4	TomoSense: A unique 3D dataset over temperate forest combining multi-frequency mono- and bi-static tomographic SAR with terrestrial, UAV and airborne lidar, and in-situ forest census 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Stefano Tebaldini, Mauro Mariotti d’Alessandro, Lars M. H. Ulander, (unknown), Anders Gustavsson, (unknown), Karlus A. C. de Macedo, Mathias Disney, Phil Wilkes, (unknown), (unknown), Jan Hanuš, Jan Novotný, Benjamin Brede, Harm Bartholomeus, Alvaro Lau, (unknown), Martin Herold, Dirk Schuettemeyer, Klaus Scipal	24
5	Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions 2022 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Miro Demol, Hans Verbeeck, Bert Gielen, John Armston, Andrew Burt, Mathias Disney, Laura Duncanson, Jan Hackenberg, Daniel Kükenbrink, Alvaro Lau, Pierre Ploton, (unknown), Atticus Stovall, Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Liubov Volkova, Christopher J. Weston, Verginia Wortel, Kim Calders	72
6	Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning 2022 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Benjamin Brede, Louise Terryn, Nicolas Barbier, Harm Bartholomeus, Renée E. Bartolo, Kim Calders, Géraldine Derroire, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Alvaro Lau, Shaun R. Levick, Pasi Raumonen, Hans Verbeeck, Di Wang, Tim Whiteside, (unknown), Martin Herold	85
7	Quantifying tropical forest structure through terrestrial and UAV laser scanning fusion in Australian rainforests 2022 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Louise Terryn, Kim Calders, Harm Bartholomeus, Renée E. Bartolo, Benjamin Brede, (unknown), Mathias Disney, Martin Herold, Alvaro Lau, Alexander Shenkin, (unknown), Phil Wilkes, Hans Verbeeck	72
8	A Shortest Path Based Tree Isolation Method for UAV LiDAR Data 2021 ·Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University ·Pasi Raumonen, Benjamin Brede, Alvaro Lau, Harm Bartholomeus	4
9	Understanding crown shyness from a 3-D perspective 2021 ·Annals of Botany ·(unknown), Alvaro Lau, Alexander Shenkin	12
10	Quantifying Tropical Forest Stand Structure Through Terrestrial and UAV Laser Scanning Fusion 2021 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Louise Terryn, Kim Calders, Harm Bartholomeus, Renée E. Bartolo, Benjamin Brede, (unknown), Mathias Disney, Martin Herold, Alvaro Lau, Alexander Shenkin, (unknown), Phil Wilkes, Hans Verbeeck	2
11	Estimating architecture-based metabolic scaling exponents of tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR and 3D modelling 2019 ·Forest Ecology and Management ·Alvaro Lau, Christopher Martius, Harm Bartholomeus, Alexander Shenkin, Toby Jackson, Yadvinder Malhi, Martin Herold, Lisa Patrick Bentley	52
12	Non-destructive tree volume estimation through quantitative structure modelling: Comparing UAV laser scanning with terrestrial LIDAR 2019 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Benjamin Brede, Kim Calders, Alvaro Lau, Pasi Raumonen, Harm Bartholomeus, Martin Herold, Lammert Kooistra	181
13	Tree Biomass Equations from Terrestrial LiDAR: A Case Study in Guyana 2019 ·Forests ·Alvaro Lau, Kim Calders, Harm Bartholomeus, Christopher Martius, Pasi Raumonen, Martin Herold, Matheus Boni Vicari, (unknown), (unknown), Rosa C. Goodman	49
14	Quantifying branch architecture of tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR and 3D modelling 2018 ·Trees ·Alvaro Lau, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Christopher Martius, Alexander Shenkin, Harm Bartholomeus, Pasi Raumonen, Yadvinder Malhi, Toby Jackson, Martin Herold	119
15	New perspectives on the ecology of tree structure and tree communities through terrestrial laser scanning 2018 ·Interface Focus ·Yadvinder Malhi, Toby Jackson, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Alvaro Lau, Alexander Shenkin, Martin Herold, Kim Calders, Harm Bartholomeus, Mathias Disney	83
16	Data acquisition considerations for Terrestrial Laser Scanning of forest plots breakdown → 2017 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Phil Wilkes, Alvaro Lau, Mathias Disney, Kim Calders, Andrew Burt, (unknown), Harm Bartholomeus, Benjamin Brede, Martin Herold	269
17	Estimation of above‐ground biomass of large tropical trees with terrestrial LiDAR 2017 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Alvaro Lau, Harm Bartholomeus, Martin Herold, Valerio Avitabile, Pasi Raumonen, Christopher Martius, Rosa C. Goodman, Mathias Disney, Solichin Manuri, Andrew Burt, Kim Calders	205
18	Comparing RIEGL RiCOPTER UAV LiDAR Derived Canopy Height and DBH with Terrestrial LiDAR 2017 ·Sensors ·Benjamin Brede, Alvaro Lau, Harm Bartholomeus, Lammert Kooistra	208
19	Application of terrestrial LiDAR and modelling of tree branching structure for plant-scaling models in tropical forest trees 2015 ·Alvaro Lau, Harm Bartholomeus, Martin Herold, Christopher Martius, Yadvinder Malhi, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Alexander Shenkin, Pasi Raumonen	4
20	An adaptive wavefront error correction system for the LASL gemini laser fusion system 1979 ·IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics ·V. Viswanathan, J. Parker, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alvaro Lau, (unknown)	1

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