The paper synthesized the challenges and potential solutions for consistently measuring and monitoring habitat condition from airborne LiDAR and UAV remote sensing over large spatial extents, and proposes the development of a collaborative cloud virtual research environment (VRE) to enhance data discovery, sharing, access, and standardization, as well as workflow reproducibility and model transferability. Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112970