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Andrew Burt

My research is focused on characterising the structure of forests, with a particular interest in quantifying tropical forest biomass and carbon stocks. Recent work has concentrated on uncertainty in estimates of above-ground biomass at the tree- and stand-scale, whether these estimates have been derived from traditional methods such as allometry, or from new technologies such as terrestrial lidar to do things like extract individual trees, which our group at UCL have helped pioneer.

Academic Background
  • 2012 - 2017: PhD - Remote Sensing, University College London (for which I wrote my PhD thesis on new 3D measurements of forest structure)
  • 2007 - 2012: MEng - Aerospace Engineering, University of Surrey
Publications
  • Binks, O., Finnigan, J., Coughlin, I., Disney, M., Calders, K., Burt, A., Boni Vicari, M., da Costa, A. C. L., Mencuccini, M., Meir, P. (2020). Canopy wetness in the Eastern Amazon. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108250
  • Burt, A., Boni Vicari, M., da Costa, A. C. L., Coughlin, I., Meir, P., Rowland, L., Disney, M. (2021). New insights into large tropical tree mass and structure from direct harvest and terrestrial lidar. Royal Society Open Science 10.1098/rsos.201458
  • Jackson, T., Shenkin, A., Majalap, N., bin Jami, J., bin Sailim, A., Reynolds, G., Reynolds, Coomes, D. A., Boyd, D. S., Burt, A., Wilkes, P., Disney M., Malhi, Y. (2020). The mechanical stability of the world’s tallest broadleaf trees. Biotropica 10.1111/btp.12850
  • Disney, M., Burt, A., Wilkes, P., Armston, J., Duncanson, L. (2020). New 3D measurements of large redwood trees for biomass and structure. Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-020-73733-6
  • Burt, A., Calders, K., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Gómez-Dans, J., Lewis, P., Lewis, S. L., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O. L., Disney, M. (2020). Assessment of Bias in Pan-Tropical Biomass Predictions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00012
  • Jackson, T., Shenkin, A., Wellpott, A., Calders, K., Origo, N., Disney, M., Burt, A., Raumonen, P., Gardiner, B., Herold, M., Fourcaud, T., Malhi, Y. (2019). Finite element analysis of trees in the wind based on terrestrial laser scanning data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.014
  • Jackson, T., Shenkin, A., Moore, J., Bunce, A., van Emmerik, T., Kane, B., Burcham, K., James, K., Selker, J., Calders, K., Origo, N., Disney, M., Burt, A., Wilkes, P., Raumonen, P., Gonzalez de Tanago, J., Lau, A., Herold, M., Goodman, R. C., Fourcaud, T., Malhi, Y. (2019). An architectural understanding of natural sway frequencies in trees. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10.1098/rsif.2019.0116
  • Jackson, T., Shenkin, A., Kalyan, B., Zionts, J., Calders, K., Origo, N., Disney, M., Burt, A., Raumonen, P., Malhi, Y. (2019). A New Architectural Perspective on Wind Damage in a Natural Forest. Forests in Frontiers and Global Change 10.3389/ffgc.2018.00013
  • Disney, M., Burt, A., Calders, K., Schaaf, C., Stovall, A. (2019). Innovations in Ground and Airborne Technologies as Reference and for Training and Validation: Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS). Surveys in Geophysics 10.1007/s10712-019-09527-x
  • Burt, A., Disney, M, Calders, K., (2019). Extracting individual trees from lidar point clouds using treeseg. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10.1111/2041-210X.13121
  • Boni Vicari, M., Disney, M., Wilkes, P., Burt, A., Calders, K., Woodgate, W. (2019). Leaf and wood classification framework for terrestrial LiDAR point clouds. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10.1111/2041-210X.13144
  • Wilkes, P., Disney, M., Boni Vicari, M., Calders, K., Burt, A. (2018). Estimating urban above-ground biomass with multi-scale LiDAR. Carbon Balance and Management 10.1186/s13021-018-0098-0
  • Pfeifer, M., Gonsamo, A., Woodgate, W., Cayuela, L., Marshall, A. R., Ledo, A., Paine, T. C. E., Marchant, R., Burt, A., Calders, K., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Deere, N. J., Denu, D. Gonzalez de Tanago, J., Hayward, R., Lau, A., Macía, M. J., Olivier, P. I., Pellikka, P., Seki, H., Shirima, D., Trevithick, R., Wedeux, B., Wheeler, C., Munishi, P. K. T., Martin, T., Mustari, A., Platts, P. J. (2018). Tropical forest canopies and their relationship with climate and disturbance: results from a global dataset of consistent field-based measurements. Forest Ecosystems 10.1186/s40663-017-0118-7
  • Gonzalez de Tanago, J., Lau, A., Bartholomeus, H., Herold, M., Avitabile, V., Raumonen, P., Martius, C., Goodman, R. C., Disney, M., Manuri, S., Burt, A., Calders, K. (2018). Estimation of above-ground biomass of large tropical trees with terrestrial LiDAR. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10.1111/2041-210X.12904
  • Disney, M., Boni Vicari, M., Burt, A., Calders, K., Lewis, S. L., Raumonen, P., Wilkes, P. (2018). Weighing trees with lasers: advances, challenges and opportunities. Interface Focus 10.1098/rsfs.2017.0048
  • Calders, K., Origo, N., Burt, A., Disney, M., Nightingale, J., Raumonen, P., Åkerblom, M., Malhi, Y., Lewis, P. (2018). Realistic Forest Stand Reconstruction from Terrestrial LiDAR for Radiative Transfer Modelling. Remote Sensing 10.3390/rs10060933
  • Wilkes, P., Lau, A., Disney, M., Calders, K., Burt, A., Gonzalez de Tanago, J., Bartholomeus, H., Brede, B., Herold, M. (2017). Data acquisition considerations for Terrestrial Laser Scanning of forest plots. Remote Sensing of Environment 10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.030
  • Calders, K., Disney, M., Armston, J., Burt., A., Brede, B., Origo, N., Muir, J., Nightingale, J. (2017). Evaluation of the Range Accuracy and the Radiometric Calibration of Multiple Terrestrial Laser Scanning Instruments for Data Interoperability. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2652721
  • Gallacher, D. J., Robins, A. G., Burt, A., Chadwick, S., Hayden, P. and Williams, M. (2016). Dispersion of positron emitting radioactive gases in a complex urban building array: a comparison of dose modelling approaches. Journal of Radiological Protection 10.1088/0952-4746/36/4/746
  • Cuni-Sanchez, A., White, L. J. T., Calders, K., Jeffery, K. J., Abernethy, K., Burt, A., Disney, M., Gilpin, M., Gómez-Dans, J., Lewis, S. L. (2016). African Savanna-Forest Boundary Dynamics: A 20-Year Study. PLOS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0156934
  • Calders, K., Newnham, G., Burt, A., Murphy, S., Raumonen, P., Herold, M., Culvenor, D., Avitabile, V., Disney, M., Armston, J., Kaasalainen, M. (2015). Nondestructive estimates of above-ground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning. Methods in Evolution and Ecology 10.1111/2041-210X.12301

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