GI materials and readings

The references of the course

Further Reading

Rio et al 2015 Forest structures
The basic ideas of forest structures Hashimoto et al. 2004
Canopy height based crown delineation basics Barnes et al. 2017
A Comparison - Delineating Individual Trees from Lidar Data Jakubowski et al. 2013

Scientific Reading and Writing shorties

lidR: An R package for analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data
R — the interpreter can be installed on any operation system.
RStudio — we recommend to use R Studio for (interactive) programming with R.
Git environment for your operating system.
For Windows users with little experience on the command line we recommend GitHub Desktop.
RQGIS installation guide.
r-bloggers best practices introduction
USGS best practices introduction
workflowR
usethis

GI Software Tutorials and GI textbooks

The editors Tolpekin & Stein 2012 The core of GIScience Download are providing an excellent insight into GI concepts.
HIGHLY Recommended From the authors trio Lovelace, Nowosad & Muenchow - Geocomputation with R
Perfect manual for most lidr related stuff - The lidR package book

Introduction to Spatial Data Programming with R Michael Dorman gives a lot of support for all kind of spatio temporal programming issues
Spatial Data Science with R Robert Hijmans website provides a valuable insight in the raster and terra package with a lot of tutorials.
Efficient R programming Colin Gillespie If you want to know it really have allook at this book.

Validation Data

The MOF public data of Marburg Open Forest is a comprehensive data base for validation and testing purposes