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Lidar, laser scanning, remote sensing, ecosystems, biomass, UAS, UAV
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Texas A&M University: College Station, TX, US

Professor (Ecology and Conservation Biology)
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Sorin Popescu

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Virginia Tech: Blacksburg, VA, US

Ph.D.
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Sorin Popescu

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Assessing hurricane impact on vegetation and endangered deer habitat using airborne lidar and multispectral images

Global Ecology and Conservation
2024-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2351-9894
Contributors: Jiyeon Kim; Sorin C. Popescu; Roel R. Lopez; X. Ben Wu; Nova J. Silvy
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Sorin Popescu

Mapping vegetation canopy height across the contiguous United States using ICESat-2 and ancillary datasets

Remote Sensing of Environment
2024-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0034-4257
Contributors: Lonesome Malambo; Sorin Popescu
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Sorin Popescu

Connecting the Dots: How Ecohydrological Connectivity Can Support Remote Sensing and Modeling to Inform Management of Woody Plant Encroachment

Rangeland Ecology & Management
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Hailey E. Schmidt; Javier M. Osorio Leyton; Sorin C. Popescu; Efrain Noa Yarasca; Sayantan Sarkar; Bradford P. Wilcox
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AI-Driven Computer Vision Detection of Cotton in Corn Fields Using UAS Remote Sensing Data and Spot-Spray Application

Remote Sensing
2024-07-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
Contributors: Pappu Yadav; Alex Thomasson; Robert Hardin; Stephen W. Searcy; Ulisses Braga-Neto; Sorin C. Popescu; Roberto Rodriguez III; Daniel Martin; Juan Enciso
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Modeling the impact of sea level rise on endangered deer habitat

Journal of Environmental Management
2024-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0301-4797
Contributors: Jiyeon Kim; Sorin C. Popescu; Roel R. Lopez; X. Ben Wu; Nova J. Silvy
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Sorin Popescu

Estimation of tropical forest aboveground biomass in Nepal using multiple remotely sensed data and deep learning

International Journal of Remote Sensing
2023-09-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0143-1161
Part of ISSN: 1366-5901
Contributors: Parvez Rana; Sorin Popescu; Anne Tolvanen; Basanta Gautam; Shruthi Srinivasan; Timo Tokola
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Sorin Popescu

Plastic Contaminant Detection in Aerial Imagery of Cotton Fields Using Deep Learning

Agriculture
2023-07-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2077-0472
Contributors: Pappu Kumar Yadav; Alex Thomasson; Robert Hardin; Stephen W. Searcy; Ulisses Braga-Neto; Sorin C. Popescu; Roberto Rodriguez III; Daniel Martin; Juan Enciso; Karem Meza et al.
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ICESat-2 for Canopy Cover Estimation at Large-Scale on a Cloud-Based Platform

Sensors
2023-03-23 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1424-8220
Contributors: Emre Akturk; Sorin C. Popescu; Lonesome Malambo
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Sorin Popescu

A Methodological Framework for Mapping Canopy Cover Using ICESat-2 in the Southern USA

Remote Sensing
2023-03-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
Contributors: Lana Narine; Sorin C. Popescu; Lonesome Malambo
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Sorin Popescu

Regional Stem Volume Mapping: A Feasibility Assessment of Scaling Tree-Level Estimates

Forests
2023-03-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1999-4907
Contributors: Lonesome Malambo; Sorin C. Popescu; Jim Rakestraw; Nian-Wei Ku; Tunde A. Owoola
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Sorin Popescu

Detecting volunteer cotton plants in a corn field with deep learning on UAV remote-sensing imagery

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
2023-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0168-1699
Contributors: Pappu Kumar Yadav; J. Alex Thomasson; Robert Hardin; Stephen W. Searcy; Ulisses Braga-Neto; Sorin C. Popescu; Daniel E Martin; Roberto Rodriguez; Karem Meza; Juan Enciso et al.
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Assessing the performance of YOLOv5 algorithm for detecting volunteer cotton plants in corn fields at three different growth stages

Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
2022 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2589-7217
Contributors: Pappu Kumar Yadav; J. Alex Thomasson; Stephen W. Searcy; Robert G. Hardin; Ulisses Braga-Neto; Sorin C. Popescu; Daniel E. Martin; Roberto Rodriguez; Karem Meza; Juan Enciso et al.
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Aboveground biomass mapping by integrating ICESat-2, SENTINEL-1, SENTINEL-2, ALOS2/PALSAR2, and topographic information in Mediterranean forests

GIScience & Remote Sensing
2022-12-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1548-1603
Part of ISSN: 1943-7226
Contributors: Guerra-Hernández J.; Lana L. Narine; Adrián Pascual; Eduardo Gonzalez-Ferreiro; Brigite Botequim; Lonesome Malambo; Amy Neuenschwander; Sorin C. Popescu; Sergio Godinho
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Landsat-Scale Regional Forest Canopy Height Mapping Using ICESat-2 Along-Track Heights: Case Study of Eastern Texas

Remote Sensing
2022-12-20 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
Contributors: Lonesome Malambo; Sorin Popescu; Meng Liu
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Sorin Popescu

Characterizing canopy cover with ICESat-2: A case study of southern forests in Texas and Alabama, USA

Remote Sensing of Environment
2022-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0034-4257
Contributors: Lana Narine; Lonesome Malambo; Sorin Popescu
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Sorin Popescu

Use of synthetic images for training a deep learning model for weed detection and biomass estimation in cotton

Scientific Reports
2022-11-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Bishwa B. Sapkota; Sorin Popescu; Nithya Rajan; Ramon G. Leon; Chris Reberg-Horton; Steven Mirsky; Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan
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Estimation of biomass burning emissions by integrating ICESat-2, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-1 data

Remote Sensing of Environment
2022-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0034-4257
Contributors: Meng Liu; Sorin Popescu
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Sorin Popescu

How to consider the effects of time of day, beam strength, and snow cover in ICESat-2 based estimation of boreal forest biomass?

Remote Sensing of Environment
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: P. Varvia; L. Korhonen; A. Bruguière; J. Toivonen; P. Packalen; M. Maltamo; S. Saarela; S.C. Popescu
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Woody Plant Encroachment: Evaluating Methodologies for Semiarid Woody Species Classification from Drone Images

Remote Sensing
2022-03-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
Contributors: Horia Olariu; Lonesome Malambo; Sorin C. Popescu; Clifton Virgil; Bradford P. Wilcox
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Sorin Popescu

Comparing mechanical harvest with alternative ground‐based methods for estimating forage yields in cool‐season annual grasses

Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment
2022-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2639-6696
Part of ISSN: 2639-6696
Contributors: Bryan Simoneaux; Clark Neely; Amir M.H. Ibrahim; Nithya Rajan; Sorin Popescu
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Assessing the agreement of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy height with airborne lidar over US ecozones

Remote Sensing of Environment
2021-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0034-4257
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Sorin Popescu

Unoccupied aerial systems discovered overlooked loci capturing the variation of entire growing period in maize

The Plant Genome
2021-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1940-3372
Part of ISSN: 1940-3372
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Sorin Popescu

Effects of Spatial Resolution on Burned Forest Classification With ICESat-2 Photon Counting Data

Frontiers in Remote Sensing
2021-07-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2673-6187
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Sorin Popescu

Regionalization of an Existing Global Forest Canopy Height Model for Forests of the Southern United States

Remote Sensing
2021-04-29 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

Vegetation mapping of No Name Key, Florida using lidar and multispectral remote sensing

International Journal of Remote Sensing
2020-12-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0143-1161
Part of ISSN: 1366-5901
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Sorin Popescu

PhotonLabeler: An Inter-Disciplinary Platform for Visual Interpretation and Labeling of ICESat-2 Geolocated Photon Data

Remote Sensing
2020-09-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

Using ICESat-2 to Estimate and Map Forest Aboveground Biomass: A First Example

Remote Sensing
2020-06-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

Allometry and structural volume change of standing dead southern pine trees using non-destructive terrestrial LiDAR

Remote Sensing of Environment
2020-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Paul A. Klockow; Eric B. Putman; Jason G. Vogel; Georgianne W. Moore; Christopher B. Edgar; Sorin C. Popescu
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Unoccupied aerial system enabled functional modeling of maize height reveals dynamic expression of loci

Plant Direct
2020-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2475-4455
Part of ISSN: 2475-4455
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Sorin Popescu

Feasibility of Burned Area Mapping Based on ICESAT−2 Photon Counting Data

Remote Sensing
2019-12-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

A Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation-Based Approach for Field-Level Sorghum Panicle Counting

Remote Sensing
2019-12-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

waveformlidar: An R Package for Waveform LiDAR Processing and Analysis

Remote Sensing
2019-10-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

Old School and High Tech: A Comparison of Methods to Quantify Ashe Juniper Biomass as Fuel or Forage

Rangelands
2019-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0190-0528
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Sorin Popescu

Synergy of ICESat-2 and Landsat for Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass with Deep Learning

Remote Sensing
2019-06-25 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

Estimating aboveground biomass and forest canopy cover with simulated ICESat-2 data

Remote Sensing of Environment
2019-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0034-4257
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A comparison of multiple methods for mapping local-scale mesquite tree aboveground biomass with remotely sensed data

Biomass and Bioenergy
2019-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Nian-Wei Ku; Sorin C. Popescu
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Automated detection and measurement of individual sorghum panicles using density-based clustering of terrestrial lidar data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
2019-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0924-2716
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Sorin Popescu

Mapping forest aboveground biomass with a simulated ICESat-2 vegetation canopy product and Landsat data

Annals of Forest Research
2019-03-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2065-2445
Part of ISSN: 1844-8135
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Sorin Popescu

Prediction of Maize Grain Yield before Maturity Using Improved Temporal Height Estimates of Unmanned Aerial Systems

The Plant Phenome Journal
2019-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2578-2703
Part of ISSN: 2578-2703
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Multitemporal field-based plant height estimation using 3D point clouds generated from small unmanned aerial systems high-resolution imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2018 | Journal article
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WOS:000413880000004

Contributors: Malambo, L.; Popescu, S. C.; Murray, S. C.; Putman, E.; Pugh, N. A.; Horne, D. W.; Richardson, G.; Sheridan, R.; Rooney, W. L.; Avant, R. et al.
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Photon counting LiDAR: An adaptive ground and canopy height retrieval algorithm for ICESat-2 data

Remote Sensing of Environment
2018 | Journal article
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WOS:000428498400012

Contributors: Popescu, S. C.; Zhou, T.; Nelson, R.; Neuenschwande, A.; Sheridan, R.; Narine, L.; Walsh, K. M.
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A scalar measure tracing tree species composition in space or time

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
2018-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0378-4371
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Sorin Popescu

From LiDAR Waveforms to Hyper Point Clouds: A Novel Data Product to Characterize Vegetation Structure

Remote Sensing
2018-12-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Sorin Popescu

Automated Estimation of Standing Dead Tree Volume Using Voxelized Terrestrial Lidar Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2018-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0196-2892
Part of ISSN: 1558-0644
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Measurement and Calibration of Plant-Height from Fixed-Wing UAV Images

Sensors
2018-11-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1424-8220
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Detecting and quantifying standing dead tree structural loss with reconstructed tree models using voxelized terrestrial lidar data

Remote Sensing of Environment
2018-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0034-4257
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Temporal Estimates of Crop Growth in Sorghum and Maize Breeding Enabled by Unmanned Aerial Systems

The Plant Phenome Journal
2018-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2578-2703
Part of ISSN: 2578-2703
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Airborne lidar remote sensing applications, in non-forested short stature environments: a review

Annals of Forest Research
2017 | Journal article
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WOS:000412380800012

Contributors: Kulawardhana, R. W.; Popescu, S. C.; Feagin, R. A.
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Bayesian decomposition of full waveform LiDAR data with uncertainty analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment
2017 | Journal article
WOSUID:

WOS:000412607600004

Contributors: Zhou, Tan; Popescu, Sorin C.
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Gold - A novel deconvolution algorithm with optimization for waveform LiDAR processing

Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
2017 | Journal article
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WOS:000403860600011

Contributors: Zhou, Tan; Popescu, Sorin C.; Krause, Keith; Sheridan, Ryan D.; Putman, Eric
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