“…An increasing number of studies have confirmed the use of ALS to estimate, model and characterize structural and ecological variables of forest cover, such as: tree identification and quantification of tree density (Yu et al, 2011;Gorgens et al, 2015;Ferraz et al, 2016;Silva et al, 2016), crown shape (Barnes et al, 2017;Figueiredo, 2014), LAI and vertical profile of vegetation (Stark et al, 2012;Detto et al, 2015;Almeida et al, 2016), carbon and biomass (D'Oliveira et al, 2012;Mascaro et al, 2011;Naesset and Gobakken, 2008;Silva et al, 2015Silva et al, , 2018, diameter distributions of the tree population (Maltamo et al, 2018), and demographic characterization of tree populations (Stark et al, 2015). ALS has also been successfully employed to stratify forest areas into structural types with shared characteristics (Jaskierniak et al, 2011;Valbuena et al, 2013Valbuena et al, , 2016Valbuena et al, , 2017Niemi and Vauhkonen, 2016;Fedrigo et al, 2018), with some classifications validated across landscapes (Hansen et al, 2014;Moran et al, 2018;Adnan et al, 2019).…”