Fig. 5From: The utility of fused airborne laser scanning and multispectral data for improved wind damage risk assessment over a managed forest landscape in FinlandDifferences in remote sensing estimated values between the damaged and background set of points, for the northwest wind direction. The median values for distance to edge are: 64.0m (damaged points) and 103.7m (background points); for upwind gap size: 43.6m (damaged) and 39.0m (background); for vegetation height in upwind gap: 6.8m (both damaged and background). This illustrates that the damaged points were closer to stands edges, and were associated with slightly bigger upwind gaps. A number of points had large upwind gap sizes (i.e. more than 200m) because of the lakes and the large clearings in the study areaBack to article page