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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2215-2504</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Forestal Mesoamericana Kurú]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Kurú]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2215-2504</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S2215-25042024000100027</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18845/rfmk.v21i48.7042</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Uso de un escáner láser terrestre (TLS) para la caracterización estructural de bosque seco tropical y plantaciones forestales en Costa Rica]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Use of a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) for the structural characterization of tropical dry forest and forest plantations in Costa Rica]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Jiménez-Méndez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Orlando]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Guevara-Bonilla]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mario]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Soto-Montoya]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Casia]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Quesada-Monge]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ruperto]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Cartago ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2024</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2024</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>21</volume>
<numero>48</numero>
<fpage>27</fpage>
<lpage>38</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2215-25042024000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2215-25042024000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2215-25042024000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El monitoreo de los bosques es una labor imprescindible para el entendimiento y manejo de las masas forestales, sin embargo, la recolección de la información necesaria para realizar esta labor es una actividad tardada y costosa. Ante la necesidad del sector forestal de desarrollar nuevas alternativas de monitoreo de bosques tropicales, que sean eficientes, precisas y permitan complementar las metodologías actuales, surge este estudio para caracterizar los atributos estructurales de sistemas boscosos a través del uso del escáner láser terrestre (TLS). Se caracterizaron cinco sitios de diferentes estadios sucesionales de bosque seco tropical (BsT) y cinco plantaciones forestales con diferentes edades y bajo distintos regímenes de manejo, al extraer las variables de Altura de dosel, Efective Number of Layers (ENL), Índice de Complejidad Estructural (SSCI) y porcentaje de Apertura de dosel, por medio de nubes de puntos obtenidas con TLS. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren que no existe un patrón de comportamiento normal dependiente de la etapa de sucesión del BsT evaluado, sin embargo, la comparación entre las distintas plantaciones forestales con el BsT refleja un fuerte contraste entre los distintos grupos, lo que representa un potencial para seguir investigando el uso de esta tecnología en distintos paisajes forestales tropicales.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Forests monitoring is an essential task for the understanding and management of forest stands, however, the collection of the necessary information to carry out this task is costly and time-consuming. Given the forestry sector's need to develop new efficient and accurate alternatives for tropical forests monitoring that can complement current methodologies, this study was conducted to characterize the structural attributes of forest systems using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS). Five sites with different successional stages of tropical dry forest (TdF) and five forest plantations of different ages and under different management regimes were characterized by extracting the variables of Stand Height, Effective Number of Layers (ENL), Stand Structural Complexity Index (SSCI) and the percentage of Canopy Openness, out of point clouds obtained from TLS. The results suggest that there is no pattern related with the specific successional stages of the TdF evaluated, however, the comparison between the different forest plantations with TdF reflect a strong contrast between the different groups, which represents a potential for further research on the use of this technology in different tropical forest landscapes.]]></p></abstract>
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