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In this study, UAS-based multispectral and RGB imageries were used to estimate forest structural attributes in planted subtropical forests. The point clouds were generated from multispectral and RGB imageries using the digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) approach. Different suits of spectral and structural metrics (i.e., wide-band spectral indices and point cloud metrics) derived from multispectral and RGB imageries were compared and assessed. The selected spectral and structural metrics were used to fit partial least squares (PLS) regression models individually and in combination to estimate forest structural attributes (i.e., Lorey\u2019s mean height (HL) and volume(V)), and the capabilities of multispectral- and RGB-derived spectral and structural metrics in predicting forest structural attributes in various stem density forests were assessed and compared. The results indicated that the derived DAP point clouds had perfect visual effects and that most of the structural metrics extracted from the multispectral DAP point cloud were highly correlated with the metrics derived from the RGB DAP point cloud (R2 &gt; 0.75). Although the models including only spectral indices had the capability to predict forest structural attributes with relatively high accuracies (R2 = 0.56\u20130.69, relative Root-Mean-Square-Error (RMSE) = 10.88\u201321.92%), the models with spectral and structural metrics had higher accuracies (R2 = 0.82\u20130.93, relative RMSE = 4.60\u201314.17%). Moreover, the models fitted using multispectral- and RGB-derived metrics had similar accuracies (\u2206R2 = 0\u20130.02, \u2206 relative RMSE = 0.18\u20130.44%). In addition, the combo models fitted with stratified sample plots had relatively higher accuracies than those fitted with all of the sample plots (\u2206R2 = 0\u20130.07, \u2206 relative RMSE = 0.49\u20133.08%), and the accuracies increased with increasing stem density.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11070800","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,4]],"date-time":"2019-04-04T03:13:42Z","timestamp":1554347622000},"page":"800","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["Estimation of Forest Structural Attributes Using Spectral Indices and Point Clouds from UAS-Based Multispectral and RGB Imageries"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5517-277X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5195-0477","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lin","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7736-0803","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bisheng","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Zhong","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"given":"Guibin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Food and Agriculture Organization (2015). 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