Utility of UAS-LIDAR for estimating forest structural attributes of the Miombo woodlands in Zambia

• Hastings Shamaoma ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hshamaoma@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6634-7697

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• Paxie W. Chirwa,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jules C. Zekeng,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Forest Engineering, Advanced Teachers Training School for Technical Education, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon, Oliver R Tambo Africa Research Chair Initiative (ORTARChI), Chair of Environment and Development, Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

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• Abel Ramoelo,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Environmental Studies (CFES), Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology after CFES, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Earth Observation Programme, South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Pretoria, South Africa

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• Andrew T. Hudak,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

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• F. Handavu,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Environment and Climate Change, Mukuba University, Kitwe, Zambia

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• Stephen Syampungani

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Oliver R Tambo Africa Research Chair Initiative (ORTARChI), Chair of Environment and Development, Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

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