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Forestry Big Data : A Review and Bibliometric Analysis Gao, Wen; Qiu, Quan; Yuan, Changyan; Shen, Xin; Cao, Fuliang; Wang, Guibin; Wang, Guangyu

Abstract

Due to improved data collection and processing techniques, forestry surveys are now more efficient and accurate, generating large amounts of forestry data. Forestry Big Data (FBD) has become a critical component of the forestry inventory investigation system. In this study, publications on FBD were identified via the Web of Science database, and a comprehensive bibliometric analysis, network analysis, and analysis of major research streams were conducted to present an overview of the FBD field. The results show that FBD research only began nearly a decade ago but has undergone an upswing since 2016. The studies were mainly conducted by China and the US, and collaboration among authors is relatively fragmented. FBD research involved interdisciplinary integration. Among all the keywords, data acquisition (data mining and remote sensing) and data processing (machine learning and deep learning) received more attention, while FBD applications (forecasting, biodiversity, and climate change) have only recently received attention. Our research reveals that the FBD research is still in the infancy stage but has grown rapidly in recent years. Data acquisition and data processing are the main research fields, whereas FBD applications have gradually emerged and may become the next focus.

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Title
Forestry Big Data : A Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Creator
Gao, Wen; Qiu, Quan; Yuan, Changyan; Shen, Xin; Cao, Fuliang; Wang, Guibin; Wang, Guangyu
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued
2022-09-22
Description
Due to improved data collection and processing techniques, forestry surveys are now more efficient and accurate, generating large amounts of forestry data. Forestry Big Data (FBD) has become a critical component of the forestry inventory investigation system. In this study, publications on FBD were identified via the Web of Science database, and a comprehensive bibliometric analysis, network analysis, and analysis of major research streams were conducted to present an overview of the FBD field. The results show that FBD research only began nearly a decade ago but has undergone an upswing since 2016. The studies were mainly conducted by China and the US, and collaboration among authors is relatively fragmented. FBD research involved interdisciplinary integration. Among all the keywords, data acquisition (data mining and remote sensing) and data processing (machine learning and deep learning) received more attention, while FBD applications (forecasting, biodiversity, and climate change) have only recently received attention. Our research reveals that the FBD research is still in the infancy stage but has grown rapidly in recent years. Data acquisition and data processing are the main research fields, whereas FBD applications have gradually emerged and may become the next focus.
Subject
forestry; big data; bibliometric analysis; VOSviewer; Bibliometrix; Citespace
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2023-10-10
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0437093
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86104
Affiliation
Forestry, Faculty of; Non UBC
Citation
Gao, W., Qiu, Q., Yuan, C., Shen, X., Cao, F., Wang, G., & Wang, G. (2022). Forestry Big Data: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis. Forests, 13(10), 1549.
Publisher DOI
10.3390/f13101549
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher; Unknown
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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