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Evaluating Different Methods for Estimating Diameter at Breast Height from Terrestrial Laser Scanning
2018
Remote Sensing
The accurate measurement of diameter at breast height (DBH) is essential to forest operational management, forest inventory, and carbon cycle modeling. ...
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is a measurement technique that allows rapid, automatic, and periodical estimates of DBH information. ...
Yanqiu Xing secured funding for the project, provided valuable suggestions for the overall design of the study, and reviewed the manuscript. Jialong Duanmu polished the language of the manuscript. ...
doi:10.3390/rs10040513
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Individual Tree Measurement in Tropical Environment using Terrestrial Laser Scanning
2015
Jurnal Teknologi
This study aims at estimating individual tree attributes from high density point cloud obtained by terrestrial laser scanner (TLS). ...
Diameter at breast height (DBH) was measured for trees in forest. Furthermore tree height, height to crown base, crown volume and tree branch volume were also estimated for each tree. ...
accurately. 3 Apart from airborne laser scanning, terrestrial laser scanning can be utilized for more accurate and detailed tree attributes estimations. ...
doi:10.11113/jt.v73.4329
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Evaluating the Eccentricities of Poplar Stem Profiles with Terrestrial Laser Scanning
2019
Forests
This research assesses the advantages, in terms of assortments evaluation, that can be obtained if the diameters at different heights are extracted adequately to process terrestrial laser scanning (TLS ...
These functions are developed based on measures of stem diameters taken at different distances from the base. ...
Acknowledgments: Many thanks to Cristiano Castaldi (Research Centre for Forestry and Wood) for the help in collecting TLS data.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/f10030239
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The Comparison of Stem Curve Accuracy Determined from Point Clouds Acquired by Different Terrestrial Remote Sensing Methods
2020
Remote Sensing
Diameter estimation errors varied across heights of cross sections and methods. ...
We evaluated the stem curves of the lower part of standing trees (diameters at heights of 0.3 m to 8 m). ...
Acknowledgments: Thanks for the equipment support provided by 3GON Slovakia s.r.o.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/rs12172739
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Automatic Estimation of Tree Position and Stem Diameter Using a Moving Terrestrial Laser Scanner
2017
Remote Sensing
An essential part of inventory is a collection of field reference data including measurements of tree stem diameter at breast height (DBH). Traditionally this is acquired through manual measurements. ...
The method divides the laser measurements into limited time intervals determined by the laser scan rotation. Tree positions and DBH are then automatically extracted from each laser scan rotation. ...
Minimum diameter at breast height as a function of observation distance and scan rate calculated from Equation (1) . ...
doi:10.3390/rs9040350
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Performance of Laser-Based Electronic Devices for Structural Analysis of Amazonian Terra-Firme Forests
2019
Remote Sensing
We report the error metrics for measurements of tree diameter and tree height and discuss the consequences for estimated biomass. ...
Estimates of aboveground biomass commonly rely on measurements of tree size (diameter and height) and then indirectly relate, via allometric relationships and wood density, to biomass sampled from a relatively ...
Acknowledgments: We are obliged to several persons that enabled our research stay at ZF2. We thank Bruno ...
doi:10.3390/rs11050510
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Comparing Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Wearable Laser Scanning (WLS) for Individual Tree Modeling at Plot Level
2018
Remote Sensing
: diameter at breast height (DBH) and total tree height (TH). ...
This study presents a comparison between the use of wearable laser scanning (WLS) and terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) devices for automatic tree detection with an estimation of two dendrometric variables ...
RMSE, mean, standard deviation (m) of the differences in diameter at breast height (DBH) and tree height (TH) between terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and wearable laser scanning (WLS) data at the two ...
doi:10.3390/rs10040540
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Retrieval of Forest Structural Parameters From Terrestrial Laser Scanning: A Romanian Case Study
2020
Forests
Materials and Methods: We performed single and multiple scans using a FARO Focus 3D X130 phase shift terrestrial laser scanner at 122kpts and 0.3:0.15 mm noise compression ratio, resulting in an average ...
Background and Objectives: We focused on analyzing stems, as a function of diameter at breast height (DBH) and the total height (H), at sample plot level for natural forests, with the purpose of assessing ...
Single terrestrial laser scan We performed a single terrestrial laser scan from the center of each plot with a FARO Focus 3D X130 phase shift terrestrial laser scanner at the same time with the above-mentioned ...
doi:10.3390/f11040392
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ESTIMATING SINGLE TREE STEM AND BRANCH BIOMASS USING TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING
2015
Jurnal Teknologi
Unique tree signage was located on trees with diameter at breast height (DBH) of 10cm and above. ...
Graphical abstract Abstract This paper presents a novel non-destructive approach for individual tree stem and branch biomass estimation using terrestrial laser scanning data. ...
Before the scanning process each tree was marked with unique number and tree properties e.g. location of trees, diameter at breast height (DBH), tree species, tree height (whenever possible) and crown ...
doi:10.11113/jt.v77.6860
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Deriving Merchantable Volume in Poplar through a Localized Tapering Function from Non-Destructive Terrestrial Laser Scanning
2016
Forests
Eight plots were established and scanned by TLS. Stem curve functions were then fitted after extraction of diameters at different height, and tree heights from the point cloud data. ...
'I-72/58') to extract stem diameter at different tree heights and establish the relationship between point cloud data and stem curve, which constitutes the basis for volume estimation of single trees and ...
The author is grateful to employees of the poplar plantation farm in Lianshui County, for assistance in the field measurements. ...
doi:10.3390/f7040087
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THE EFFECT OF WIND ON TREE STEM PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING
2016
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
In this paper, we evaluated the effect of wind on tree stem parameter estimation at different heights using TLS. ...
The data consists of one measured Scots pine captured from three different scanning directions with two different scanning resolutions, 6.3 mm and 3.1 mm at 10 m. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research was supported by the following institutions: the Academy of Finland, the Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research (CoE-LaSR, project number 272195), "Interaction of ...
doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-iii-8-117-2016
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Comparison of 3D Point Clouds Obtained by Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Personal Laser Scanning on Forest Inventory Sample Plots
2020
Data
We have developed a novel methodology to provide estimates of the tree positions, stem diameters, and tree heights from these 3D point clouds. ...
The data were collected by two different laser scanning systems: (1) A mobile personal laser scanner (PLS) (ZEB Horizon, GeoSLAM Ltd., Nottingham, UK) and (2) a static terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) ( ...
The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments and suggestions on the original manuscript. ...
doi:10.3390/data5040103
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THE EFFECT OF WIND ON TREE STEM PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING
2016
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
In this paper, we evaluated the effect of wind on tree stem parameter estimation at different heights using TLS. ...
The data consists of one measured Scots pine captured from three different scanning directions with two different scanning resolutions, 6.3 mm and 3.1 mm at 10 m. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research was supported by the following institutions: the Academy of Finland, the Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research (CoE-LaSR, project number 272195), "Interaction of ...
doi:10.5194/isprsannals-iii-8-117-2016
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Autonomous Collection of Forest Field Reference—The Outlook and a First Step with UAV Laser Scanning
2017
Remote Sensing
The accuracy of direct measurements on the diameter at breast height (DBH) from the point cloud is between 5.5 and 6.8 cm due to the system and the methodological error propagation. ...
The estimation of DBH from point cloud metrics, on the other hand, showed an accuracy of 2.6 cm, which is comparable to the accuracies obtained with terrestrial surveys using mobile laser scanning (MLS ...
Acknowledgments: The research leading to these results has received funding from the Academy of
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/rs9080785
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On the geometry and allometry of big-buttressed trees - a challenge for forest monitoring: new insights from 3D-modeling with terrestrial laser scanning
2015
iForest : Biogeosciences and Forestry
On the geometry and allometry of big-buttressed trees -a challenge for forest monitoring: new insights from 3D-modeling with terrestrial laser scanning. iForest 8: 574-581 [online 2015-03-02] ...
Acknowledgements This study was made possible through financial support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) which has been ...
Tree variables commonly used for such models are the diameter at breast height (DBH, measured at 1.3 m height) or DBH in combination with total tree height. ...
doi:10.3832/ifor1449-007
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