Yousef Erfanifard

Associate Professor

Update: 2025-03-27

Yousef Erfanifard

Faculty of Geography / Remote Sensing & GIS

Journal Paper

  1. "Assessment of Pine Tree Crown Delineation Algorithms on UAV Data: From K-Means Clustering to CNN Segmentation"
    علی حسینقلی زاده, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah, Virginia Elena Garcia Millan, Milosz Mielcarek, Saied Pirasteh, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    FORESTS, Vol. 16, No 2, 2025
  2. "Mobile Devices in Forest Mensuration: A Review of Technologies and Methods in Single Tree Measurements"
    Robert Magnuson, Yousef Erfanifard, Maksymilian Kulicki, Torana Arya Gasica, Elvis Tangwa, Milosz Mielcarek, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    Remote Sensing, Vol. 16, No 19, 2024
  3. "High resolution remote sensing for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: A case study of dominant tree species in an old-growth forest"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Maciej Lisiewicz, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. 566, No 566, 2024
  4. "Height estimation of pine (Pinus eldarica) single trees using slope corrected shadow length on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery in a plantation forest"
    علی حسینقلی زاده, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah, Hooman Latifi, یاسر جویباری مقدم
    Annals of Forest Research, Vol. 66, No 2, pp.3-16, 2023
  5. "Assessment of Iran’s Mangrove Forest Dynamics (1990–2020) Using Landsat Time Series"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Mohsen Lotfi, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, No 19, 2022
  6. "The impact of coppice management on spatial structure and intraspecific interactions of Brant's oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) semi-arid woodlands"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Mahdi Pourhashemi, Sajad Alimahmoodi Sarab
    Acta Oecologica, Vol. 113, No 1, 2021
  7. "Integration of remote sensing in spatial ecology: assessing the interspecific interactions of two plant species in a semi-arid woodland using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetric data"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Bartlomiej Kraszewski, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    OECOLOGIA, Vol. 196, No 1, pp.115-130, 2021
  8. "Topographic Effects on the Spatial Species Associations in Diverse Heterogeneous Tropical Evergreen Forests"
    Hong Hai Nguyen, Yousef Erfanifard, Van Bac Bui, Trinh Hien Mai, Any Mary Petritan, Ion Catalin Petritan
    sustainability, Vol. 13, No 5, 2021
  9. "Canopy Based Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock Estimation of Wild Pistachio Trees in Arid Woodlands Using GeoEye-1 Images."
    Reza Bagheri, Shaban Shataee Joybari, Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, Vol. 23, No 1, pp.107-123, 2021
  10. "Phylogenetic Community and Nearest Neighbor Structure of Disturbed Tropical Rain Forests Encroached by Streblus macrophyllus"
    Hong Hai Nguyen, Yousef Erfanifard, Tran Quang Bao, Any Mary Petritan, Trinh Hien Mai, Ion Catalin Petritan
    FORESTS, Vol. 11, No 7, 2020
  11. "Quantitative assessment of forest ecosystem stress caused by cement plant pollution using in situ measurements and Sentinel-2 satellite data in a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site"
    Ali Ashrafi, Yousef Erfanifard, Farshad Amiraslani, Ali Darvishi Boloorani, علی جعفر موسیوند
    European Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 10, No 1, pp.22-31, 2020
  12. "Saltcedar (Tamarix mascatensis) inhibits growth and spatial distribution of eshnan (Seidlitzia rosmarinus) by enrichment of soil salinity in a semi-arid desert"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Elaheh Khosravi
    PLANT AND SOIL, Vol. 440, pp.219-231, 2019
  13. "Management strategies alter competitive interactions and structural properties of Norway spruce in mixed stands of Bialowieża Forest, Poland"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Krzysztof Sterenczak Krzysztof Sterenczak, Stanislaw Miscicki Stanislaw Miscicki
    FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. 437, No 7, pp.87-98, 2019
  14. "Spatial Association and Diversity of Dominant Tree Species in Tropical Rainforest, Vietnam"
    Hong Hai Nguyen, Yousef Erfanifard, Van Dien Pham, Xuan Truong Le, The Doi Bui, Ion Catalin Petritan
    FORESTS, Vol. 9, No 10, 2018
  15. "Fine-scale intraspecific interactions and environmental heterogeneity drive the spatial structure in old-growth stands of a dioecious plant"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Hong Hai Nguyen, John Paul Schmidt, Andrew Rayburn
    FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. 425, No 1, pp.92-99, 2018
  16. "Development of a robust canopy height model derived from ALS point clouds for predicting individual crown attributes at the species level"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Krzysztof Sterenczak, Bartlomiej Kraszewski, Agnieszka Kaminska
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING, Vol. 39, No 23, pp.9206-9227, 2018
  17. "Delineation of homogeneous forest patches using combination of field measurements and LiDAR point clouds as a reliable reference for evaluation of low resolution global satellite data"
    Krzysztof Sterenczak, Marek Lisanczuk, Yousef Erfanifard
    Forest Ecosystems, Vol. 5, No 1, 2018
  18. "Nearest Neighborhood Characteristics of a Tropical Mixed Broadleaved Forest Stand"
    Hong Hai Nguyen, Yousef Erfanifard, Ion Catalin Petritan
    FORESTS, Vol. 9, No 1, 2018
  19. "Competitive interactions of Persian oak coppice trees (Quercus brantii var. persica) in a pure dry woodland revealed through point pattern analysis"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Nayereh Sheikholeslami
    FOLIA GEOBOTANICA, Vol. 52, No 1, pp.113-127, 2017
  20. "Intra- and interspecific interactions of Scots pine and European beech in mixed secondary forests"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    Acta Oecologica, Vol. 78, No 1, pp.15-25, 2017
  21. "Estimating biophysical parameters of Persian oak coppice trees using UltraCam-D airborne imagery in Zagros semi-arid woodlands"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Forough Rezayan
    JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS, Vol. 133, No 1, pp.10-18, 2016
  22. "Efficiency of sample-based indices for spatial pattern recognition of wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica) trees in semi-arid woodlands"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Joachim Saborowski, Kerstin Wiegand, Katrin M. Meyer
    JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH, Vol. 27, No 3, pp.583-594, 2015
  23. "Parameter optimization of image classification techniques to delineate crowns of coppice trees on UltraCam-D aerial imagery in woodlands"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Krzysztof Sterenczak, Negin Behnia
    Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 8, No 1, 2014
  24. "Tree crown delineation on UltraCam-D aerial imagery with SVM classification technique optimised by Taguchi method in Zagros woodlands"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Negin Behnia, Vahid Moosavi
    International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, Vol. 5, No 4, pp.1-15, 2014
  25. "A robust approach to generate canopy cover maps using UltraCam-D derived orthoimagery classified by support vector machines in Zagros woodlands, West Iran"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Zohreh Khodaee, Rashid Fallah Shamsi
    European Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 47, No 1, pp.773-792, 2014
  26. "Spatial pattern analysis in Persian oak (Quercus brantii var. persica) forests on B&W aerial photographs"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Jahangir Feghhi, Mahmoud Zobeiri, Manochehr Namiranian
    ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT, Vol. 150, pp.251-259, 2008
  27. "Mapping mangrove forest extent in Iran using Sentinel-2 imagery"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Mohsen Lotfi
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 31, No 2, pp.98-112, 2023
  28. "Comparison of vegetation and mangrove indices in mangrove mapping on Sentinel-2 imagery based on Google Earth Engine"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Mohsen Lotfi
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 30, No 3, pp.224-240, 2023
  29. "Efficiency of mangrove indices in mapping some mangrove forests using Landsat 8 imagery in southern Iran"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Mohsen Lotfi
    Journal of applied RS & GIS Techinques in Natural Resource Science, Vol. 13, No 4, pp.68-86, 2023
  30. "Species recognition of Pistacia and Amygdalus individuals using combination of UAV-based RGB imagery and digital surface model"
    عاطفه اسمخانی, Yousef Erfanifard, Ali Darvishi Boloorani, Najmeh Neysani Samany
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 29, No 3, pp.93-111, 2022
  31. "Species Diversity of Important Forest Communities in Patum District, Kheyrud Forest"
    Jahangir Feghhi, Mahmoud Zobeiri, Mohammad Reza Marvi Mohajer, Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of Strategic Researches in Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences, Vol. 7, No 2, pp.113-124, 2022
  32. "Estimation of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of Pistacia atlantica Desf. and Amygdalus spp. in of UAV point clouds"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Bartlomiej Kraszewski
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 29, No 1, 2021
  33. "Efficiency of optimized artificial neural network in soil organic carbon modeling based on in-situ measurements and Sentinel-2 images in Arasbaran"
    Mohsen Lotfi, Yousef Erfanifard, Farshad Amiraslani, Ali Keshavarzi
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 27, No 3, 2020
  34. "Assessment of intra- and interspecific interactions of wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) and wild almond (Amygdalus spp.) using spatial analysis in mixed stands of Baneh Research Forest, Fars Province, Iran"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Afrooz Chenari
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 28, No 2, pp.192-203, 2020
  35. "Spatial distribution of Persian Oak decline using a combination of geostatistical techniques and remote sensing (Case study: Barm plain, Fars province)"
    Razieh Bagheri, Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of applied RS & GIS Techinques in Natural Resource Science, Vol. 11, No 1, 2020
  36. "Multi-temporal analysis of the industrial dusts effects of Mazandaran cement plant on neighbouring forest cover"
    Ali Ashrafi, Yousef Erfanifard, Farshad Amiraslani, Ali Darvishi Boloorani, علی جعفر موسیوند
    JOURNAL OF FOREST AND WOOD PRODUCTS (JFWP) (IRANIAN JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES), Vol. 72, No 4, pp.275-287, 2020
  37. "The assessment of vegetation degradation hazard using a new method of NIDLTS and GIS, case study: Tange Bostanak Basin, Fars Province"
    Elham Afrough, Masoud Masoudi, Yousef Erfanifard
    Watershed managment Journal, Vol. 12, No 1, pp.1-19, 2020
  38. "Effect of spatial resolution of UAV aerial images on height estimation of wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) trees"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Afrooz Chenari, Maryam Dehghani, Farshad Amiraslani
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 2, No 27, pp.169-181, 2019
  39. "A review on books related to application of remote sensing in natural science and environment"
    Yousef Erfanifard
    Iran Nature, Vol. 3, No 3, pp.114-118, 2018
  40. "Spatial structural analysis of species associations in mixed Montpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum L.) stands of Zagros woodlands (Case study: Firooz Abad, Fars province)"
    Azita Alipour, Yousef Erfanifard, Hossin Sadeghi, Seyed Rashid Falah Shamsi
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 26, No 2, pp.178-188, 2018
  41. "Estimation of crown area of wild pistachio single trees using DSM of UAV aerial images in Baneh Research Forest, Fars province"
    Afrooz Chenari, Yousef Erfanifard, Maryam Dehghani, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 24, No 4, pp.117-130, 2017
  42. "Efficiency of template matching algorithm on GeoEye-1 image for detecting wild pistachio trees and determining their spatial pattern (Case study: The Tag-Ahmad-Shahi protected area, southern Khorasan Province, Iran)"
    Reza Bagheri, Shaban Shataee Joybari, Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of Forest Research and Development, Vol. 3, No 4, pp.291-304, 2017
  43. "Spatial pattern analysis of Montpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum L.) on steep slopes in Zagros (Case study: Firoozabad, Fars province)"
    Azita Alipour, Yousef Erfanifard
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 25, No 4, pp.574-584, 2017
  44. "Evaluation level of tree diversity in the Hyrcanian forests using complex structural diversity index (Case study: beech-hornbeam type, Nav-e Asalem, Gilan)"
    Peyman Farhadi, جواد سوسنی , Yousef Erfanifard
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 25, No 3, pp.495-505, 2017
  45. "Efficiency of nearest neighbor indices to assessment structure of Fageto-Carpinetum in Growth area hyrcanian (Case Study: Nave Asalem-Gilan forests -Iran)"
    Peyman Farhadi, جواد سوسنی , Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 24, No 2, 2017
  46. "Analyzing the effect of clustered spatial distribution of mount Atlas mastic (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) trees on their biometric characteristics using mark-correlation function in Baneh Research Forest, Fars province"
    Narges Kariminejad, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Rashid Falah Shamsi, Hossin Sadeghi
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 25, No 2, pp.264-274, 2017
  47. "Efficiency of edge effect correction methods for Ripley's K-function in spatial analysis of Christ's thorn jujube trees (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Zagros"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Soraya Gerami, جواد سوسنی
    JOURNAL OF FOREST AND WOOD PRODUCTS (JFWP) (IRANIAN JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES), Vol. 70, No 2, pp.315-324, 2017
  48. "Evaluation of homogeneity of tree spatial distribution in a mixed mesquite (Prosopis cineraria) stand in Barchah protected area, Hormozgan province"
    Elaheh Khosravi, Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 24, No 2, pp.47-58, 2017
  49. "Comparison of Ripley's K-, pair correlation, and O-ring functions in spatial pattern analysis of Christ's thorn jujube trees (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Fars province"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Farnoosh Naziri
    JOURNAL OF FOREST AND WOOD PRODUCTS (JFWP) (IRANIAN JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES), Vol. 70, No 1, pp.1-9, 2017
  50. "Effect of spatial pattern of trees on efficiency of distance and plot sampling methods in Zagros woodlands"
    Nayereh Sheikholeslami, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Rashid Falah Shamsi, Masoud Masoudi, Elaheh Khosravi
    Iranian Journal of Forest, Vol. 9, No 1, pp.101-117, 2017
  51. "Efficiency of distance sampling methods in estimation of biometric characteristics of wild pistachio (pistachio atlantica subsp. mutica) open stands in Zagros"
    Laya Zare, Yousef Erfanifard, منصور تقوایی , Narges Kariminejad
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No 3, pp.1512-1537, 2016
  52. "Analysing the effect of intraspecific competition on biometric attributes of Persian oak coppice trees using pair- and mark-correlation functions in Zagros forests"
    Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No 2, pp.89-109, 2016
  53. "Intraspecific Interactions of Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.) Trees in Indian Rosewood Reserveof Khuzestan Province"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Fatemeh Aali Beiranvand
    Iranian Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 5, No 15, pp.15-26, 2016
  54. "Comparing different k-NN sampling methods for density estimation of wild pistachio (Pistaciaatlantica Desf.) with clustered spatial pattern in a Zagros open stand"
    Masoumeh Mouselo, Yousef Erfanifard
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 23, No 4, pp.626-636, 2015
  55. "Efficiency of Cokriging Method to Map the Biometric Characteristics of Wild Pistachio (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) Woodlands in Fars Province"
    Negin Behnia, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Rashid Falah Shamsi, AliAkbar Mousavi
    Journal of Zagros Forests Researches, Vol. 2, No 2, pp.27-46, 2015
  56. "Efficiency of different summary statistics in modelling spatial point patterns of Christ's thorn jujube trees (Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Wild.)"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Narges Kariminejad
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 23, No 3, pp.413-424, 2015
  57. "Evaluating the intraspecific interactions of Eshnan (Seidlitzia rosmarinus) shrubs in arid lands by point pattern analysis (Case study: Qehi protected area, Isfahan Province)"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Elaheh Khosravi
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 23, No 2, pp.354-367, 2015
  58. "Application of ROC curve to assess pixel-based classification methods on UltraCam-D aerial imagery to discriminate tree crowns in pure stands of Brant`s oak in Zagros forests"
    Yousef Erfanifard
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 22, No 4, pp.649-663, 2014
  59. "Suitable Methods in Spatial Pattern Analysis of Heterogeneous Wild Pistachio (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) Woodlands in Zagros, Iran"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Forough Rezayan
    Iranian Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 3, No 9, pp.81-91, 2014
  60. "An Efficient Method in Diameter at Root Collar Measurement of Persian Oak Coppice Trees in Zagros Dry Forests, Iran"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Hamid Soleimani
    JOURNAL OF FOREST AND WOOD PRODUCTS (JFWP) (IRANIAN JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES), Vol. 67, No 3, pp.383-395, 2014
  61. "Effects of Spatial Distribution of Trees on Density Estimation by Nearest Individual Sampling Method: Case Studies in Zagros Wild Pistachio Woodlands and Simulated Stands"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Laya Zare, Nayereh Sheikholeslami
    Iranian Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 3, No 7, pp.83-93, 2014
  62. "Assessment of Crown Measurement Techniques in Coppice Trees of Zagros Forests by UltraCam-D Aerial Imagery"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Masoumeh Mouselo
    JOURNAL OF FOREST AND WOOD PRODUCTS (JFWP) (IRANIAN JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES), Vol. 66, No 4, pp.413-426, 2013
  63. "Application of the Nearest Neighbor Indices in Persian Oak (Quercus brantii var. persica) Coppice Stands of Zagros Forests"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Laya Zare
    Iranian Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 2, No 5, pp.15-25, 2013
  64. "An ecological model to estimate above-ground biomass of some range perennial species by a non-destructive method in dry ecosystems"
    زهرا مولایی , منصور تقوایی , Yousef Erfanifard
    Desert Ecosystems Engineering Journal, Vol. 2, No 3, pp.19-28, 2013
  65. "Efficiency of LTS and LIS methods for wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) density estimates in Zagros forests, Iran"
    Yousef Erfanifard
    Journal of Wood & Forest Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No 2, pp.23-41, 2013
  66. "Detection and Classification of Available Agroforestry Systems in Fars Province (Case Study: Kazerun City)"
    Pardis Ghodarzian, Yousef Erfanifard, Hossin Sadeghi
    Agriculture Science and Sustainable Production, Vol. 23, No 1, pp.55-70, 2013
  67. "Efficiency investigation of dot grid method in estimating the canopy closure precent in forests by UltraCam-D aerial imagery and GIS"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Zohreh Khodaee
    Iranian Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS, Vol. 4, No 4, pp.101-114, 2012
  68. "The efficiency of distance- and density-based indices in estimating the spatial pattern of trees in forests (Case study: Wild Pistachio Research Forest, Fars province, Iran)"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Fatemeh Mahdian, Seyed Rashid Falah Shamsi, Sayd Kazam Bordbar
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 20, No 3, pp.379-392, 2012
  69. "Comparative investigation on the methods of true spatial pattern analysis of trees in forests (Case study: Wild pistachio reserach forest, Fars province, Iran)"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Fatemeh Mahdian
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 20, No 1, pp.62-73, 2012
  70. "Spatial pattern of Manna Oak trees (Quercus brantii Lindl.) in Bayangan forests of Kermanshah"
    امیر صفری , نقی شعبانیان, رضاحسین حیدری , Yousef Erfanifard, مرتضی پوررضا
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 18, No 4, pp.596-608, 2010
  71. "Investigation of spatial pattern of wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica Desf.) (case study: Bayangan forests, Kirmanshah)"
    امیر صفری , نقی شعبانیان, Yousef Erfanifard, رضاحسین حیدری , مرتضی پوررضا
    Iranian Journal of Forest, Vol. 2, No 2, pp.177-185, 2010
  72. "Application of vegetation indices on ASTER-L1B in crown cover estimation of single trees in arid regions"
    Niloofar Behbahani, Seyed Rashid Falah Shamsi, Jalil Farzadmehr, Yousef Erfanifard, Mahdi Ramezani
    Pasture, Vol. 4, No 1, pp.93-103, 2010
  73. "Investigation on the Spatial Pattern of Trees in Zagros Forests"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Jahangir Feghhi, Mahmoud Zobeiri, Manochehr Namiranian
    manabe tabie iran, Vol. 61, No 1, pp.1319-1328, 2007
  74. "Estimation of crown cover on aerial photographs using shadow index (case study: Zagros Forests, Iran)"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Mahmoud Zobeiri, Jahangir Feghhi, Manochehr Namiranian
    Iranian journal of Forest and Poplar Research, Vol. 15, No 3, 2007

Conference Paper

  1. "Integration of weighted majority voting in machine learning algorithms to enhance pine tree crown mapping on UAV imagery"
    علی حسینقلی زاده, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah, سعید پیراسته , Virginia Garcia Millan
    ISPRS TC III Mid-term Symposium “Beyond the canopy: technologies and applications of remote sensing”, 2024
  2. "Biodiversity resilience in old-growth forests: An investigation of species diversity dynamics pre- and post-pestoutbreaks peaks"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Maciej Lisiewicz, Milosz Mielcarek, Lukasz Kuberski, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2024), 2024
  3. "Preliminary results of tree inventory with low cost SLAM LiDAR"
    Torana Arya Gasica, Maksymilian Kulicki, Yousef Erfanifard, Elvis Tangwa, Milosz Mielcarek, Robert Magnuson, Krzysztof Sterenczak
    EnviLink – International Platform for Exchange of Experience Between Young Scientists in Environmental Research, 2024
  4. "High Resolution Remote Sensing for Biodiversity Assessment: A Case Study of Tree Species in an Old Growth Forest"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Krzysztof Sterenczak, Maciej Lisiewicz
    10th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2024), 2024
  5. "INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF DEFORESTATION ON MICROCLIMATE AND INCREASING THE RISK OF HEAT STRESS USING SATELLITE IMAGE PROCESSING (CASE STUDY: FORESTS OF HIRAN AREA)"
    [] [], .a. Kakroodi Ata, Yousef Erfanifard
    ISPRS GeoSpatial Conference 2022, 2023
  6. "TREE CROWN DELINEATION ON UAV IMAGERY USING COMBINATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS WITH MAJORITY VOTING"
    علی حسینقلی زاده, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah, Hooman Latifi, یاسر جویباری مقدم
    ISPRS GeoSpatial Conference 2022, 2023
  7. "An assessment of support vector machines for crown delineation of pine single trees on unmanned aerial vehicle imagery"
    علی حسینقلی زاده, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah, Hooman Latifi, یاسر جویباری مقدم
    4th Intercontinental Geoinformation Days (IGD), 2022
  8. "Review of the application of UAV remote sensing in spatial ecology of plant communities"
    Yousef Erfanifard
    Second International Workshop At the Interface of Silviculture, Remote Sensing and Forest Development: Ideas for Integrated Research, 2022
  9. "Comparison of efficiency of Watershed and Marker-Controlled Watershed algorithms in crown area estimation of Eldarica pine single trees on UAV data"
    علی حسینقلی زاده, Yousef Erfanifard, Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah, Hooman Latifi, یاسر جویباری مقدم
    26th Conference on Surveying & Spatial Information (Geomatics 1400), 2022
  10. "Long-term changes of mangrove forests using mangrove indices on Landsat time series imagery in Jask, Hormozgan Province"
    Mohsen Lotfi, Yousef Erfanifard
    2nd International Conference of GIScience: Basis and Trans/Interdisiplanary Applications, 2021
  11. "Assessment of 2D and 3D mathematical models in geometric correction of quadrotor UAVsof"
    Hadi Ghorbani, Maryam Dehghani, Yousef Erfanifard
    11th Congress on Civil Engineering, 2019
  12. "Estimation of quantitative characteristics of wild pistachio trees using 3D crown models on UAV imagery in Bane-Badam Research Forest, Fars province"
    Yousef Erfanifard, Afrooz Chenari, Maryam Dehghani
    Geomatics & Geographic Information Technology 97, 2018
  13. "Height measurement of Persian oak coppice trees on UltraCam-D aerial imagery in Zagros forests"
    Forough Rezayan, Yousef Erfanifard
    Geomatics94, 2015