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Development of a UAV-LiDAR System with Application to Forest Inventory
2012
Remote Sensing
We present the development of a low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Light Detecting and Ranging (UAV-LiDAR) system and an accompanying workflow to produce 3D point clouds. ...
The TerraLuma UAV-LiDAR system has been developed to take advantage of these properties and in doing so overcome some of the current limitations of the use of this technology within the forestry industry ...
The Australian Antarctic Division are acknowledged for providing work shop time in the construction of the mounting system. ...
doi:10.3390/rs4061519
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Development and Performance Evaluation of a Very Low-Cost UAV-Lidar System for Forestry Applications
2020
Remote Sensing
use of UAV lidar in forest inventory applications. ...
Moreover, a comprehensive comparison was conducted between the developed DJI Livox system and four other UAV lidar systems equipped with high-end laser scanners (i.e., RIEGL VUX-1 UAV, RIEGL miniVUX-1 ...
Acknowledgments: We thank the Greenvalley International for providing four UAV lidar systems used for comparison.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/rs13010077
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Measuring Individual Tree Diameter and Height Using GatorEye High-Density UAV-Lidar in an Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest System
2020
Remote Sensing
Here, we explore the potential of a UAV-lidar system (GatorEye) to measure individual-tree DBH and total height using an automatic approach in an integrated crop-livestock-forest system with seminal forest ...
However, TLS still has a spatial limitation to application because it needs to be manually carried to reach the area of interest, requires sometimes challenging field access, and often requires a field ...
Acknowledgments: The authors are very grateful to the Spatial Ecology and Conservation (SPEC) Lab at the University of Florida who funded and collected the GatorEye Unmanned Flying Laboratory lidar data ...
doi:10.3390/rs12050863
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Advances in Forest Robotics: A State-of-the-Art Survey
2021
Robotics
The development of robotic systems to operate in forest environments is of great relevance for the public and private sectors. ...
After conducting critical analysis, the main characteristics observed were: (a) the locomotion system is directly affected by the type of environmental monitoring to be performed; (b) different reasons ...
of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/robotics10020053
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Unimodal and Multimodal Perception for Forest Management: Review and Dataset
2021
Computation
Advanced perception systems are needed because they can enable the development of robotic and machinery solutions to accomplish a smarter, more precise, and sustainable forestry. ...
This article presents a state-of-the-art review about unimodal and multimodal perception in forests, detailing the current developed work about perception using a single type of sensors (unimodal) and ...
Autonomous navigation in forests can also happen in the air with UAVs, as was shown in [26] , where the authors developed a UAV-based system capable of following footpaths in the forest terrain. ...
doi:10.3390/computation9120127
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Individual Tree Crown Segmentation in Two-Layered Dense Mixed Forests from UAV LiDAR Data
2020
Drones
Overall, while the application of UAV-LS to delineate tree crowns and estimate biometric parameters is satisfactory, its accuracy is affected by the presence of a multilayered and multispecies canopy that ...
This study investigates the potential of laser scanner data collected with a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle laser scanner (UAV-LS), for individual tree crown (ITC) delineation to derive forest biometric ...
The aim of this study is to assess the capability of the low-cost UAV-LS system developed in [ 14 ] to obtain structural and dendrometric parameters in a complex layered forest. ...
doi:10.3390/drones4020010
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Synthesis of Leaf-on and Leaf-off Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Stereo Imagery for the Inventory of Aboveground Biomass of Deciduous Forests
2019
Remote Sensing
It is still a challenging issue to remove the elevation of ground surface in leaf-on stereo imagery to extract forest canopy height without the help of lidar data. ...
Applications of stereo imagery acquired by cameras onboard unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as practical forest inventory tools are hindered by the unavailability of ground surface elevation. ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/rs11070889
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Tree Extraction of Airborne LiDAR Data Based on Coordinates of Deep Learning Object Detection from Orthophoto over Complex Mangrove Forest
2020
International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research
The airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system has made dramatic improvements to forest data collection and management especially on the forest inventory aspect. ...
Wide-ranging efforts have been developed to extract individual trees from LiDAR data by starting to localize treetops through LM within LiDAR data. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researchers would like to convey their appreciation to the following: Commission on Higher Education (CHED) DARE TO Research Grant; MR-SUAVE Project (Mangrove Remote-Sensing Unmanned ...
doi:10.30534/ijeter/2020/103852020
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Types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Sensing Technologies, and Software for Agricultural Applications
2021
EDIS
This publication provides detailed information about the most used UAVs, sensing technologies, and software for agricultural applications. ...
Written by Sri Charan Kakarla and Yiannis Ampatzidis, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, October 2021. ...
The subscription costs around $350 per month (2021 data), but users can also buy a perpetual license that will be around $4,990 (one Figure 6 . UAV equipped with a LiDAR mapping system. ...
doi:10.32473/edis-ae565-2021
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Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Forest Remote Sensing—A Systematic Review. Part I: A General Framework
2021
Forests
Part II inspects specific technical issues regarding the application of UAV-RS in forestry, together with the pros and cons of different UAV solutions and activities where additional effort is needed, ...
In a framework where scientific production is growing exponentially, a systematic analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based forestry research papers is of paramount importance to understand trends ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/f12030327
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The Evaluation of Photogrammetry-Based DSM from Low-Cost UAV by LiDAR-Based DSM
2017
South-East European Forestry
in Forest Inventory (3D-FORINVENT)" and IP-2016-06-5621 "Geospatial Monitoring of Green Infrastructure by Means of Terrestrial, Airborne and Satellite Imagery (GEMINI)". ...
The authors wish to thank Hrvatske vode, Zagreb, Croatia, for providing ALS data. ...
In general, the common UAVs applications in forestry are related to monitoring of forest health and disturbances [4] [5] [6] , forest inventory [7, 8] , forest cover mapping [9] , etc. ...
doi:10.15177/seefor.17-16
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Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Forest Remote Sensing—A Systematic Review. Part II: Research Applications
2021
Forests
Forest sustainable management aims to maintain the income of woody goods for companies, together with preserving non-productive functions as a benefit for the community. ...
in the Web of Science database by searching for "UAV"+"forest". ...
UAV technologies proved to be a very effective and powerful tool in the modern management of forest inventories. ...
doi:10.3390/f12040397
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Mapping Canopy Heights in Dense Tropical Forests Using Low-Cost UAV-Derived Photogrammetric Point Clouds and Machine Learning Approaches
2021
Remote Sensing
We conducted UAV-DAP surveys combined with field inventories in the tropical forest of the Congo Basin. ...
To address this issue, we present a generally applicable method that is based on machine learning methods to identify the forest floor in DAP-derived point clouds of dense tropical forests. ...
Acknowledgments: We thank Isaac Ahanamungu of the Department of Environment, Ghent University, for the collection of inventory data. ...
doi:10.3390/rs13183777
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An updated survey on the use of geospatial technologies in New Zealand's plantation forestry sector
2020
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science
Geospatial technologies have developed rapidly in recent decades and can provide detailed, accurate data to support forest management. ...
Many of the companies used unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAV) to acquire aerial and multispectral imagery in 2018, while in 2013 no companies were using UAVs. ...
This is because of the common practice of correlating groundbased inventory measurements with LiDAR plots, such that LiDAR metrics can subsequently be used for forest description across entire estates. ...
doi:10.33494/nzjfs502020x118x
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Forestry Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review Focusing on the Data, Processing and Potentialities
2020
Remote Sensing
In a changing world scenario, the economic importance of Remote Sensing (RS) to monitor forests and agricultural resources is imperative to the development of agroforestry systems. ...
In the management process of forests resources, UAVs are one of the most suitable options to consider, mainly due to: (1) low operational costs and high-intensity data collection; (2) its capacity to host ...
Other Applications Apart from forest applications with more incidence towards tree development and its status, other applications in forestry contexts were explored using UAVs for: forest canopy assessment ...
doi:10.3390/rs12061046
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