Assessment of handheld mobile terrestrial laser scanning for estimating tree parameters
| Autor: | Lars De Sloover, Cornelis Stal, Alain De Wulf, Jeffrey Verbeurgt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Laser scanning DBH 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences Data acquisition scanning Handheld mobile laser scanning DESIGN PHOTOGRAMMETRY Point cloud processing 021101 geological & geomatics engineering 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Remote sensing Mathematics Forest inventory Airborne laser scanning AREA Diameter at breast height Forestry LOCALIZATION FOREST Sample (graphics) Tree (data structure) Photogrammetry Earth and Environmental Sciences AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA Terrestrial laser Volume (compression) |
| Zdroj: | JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH |
| ISSN: | 1007-662X 1993-0607 |
| Popis: | Sustainable forest management heavily relies on the accurate estimation of tree parameters. Among others, the diameter at breast height (DBH) is important for extracting the volume and mass of an individual tree. For systematically estimating the volume of entire plots, airborne laser scanning (ALS) data are used. The estimation model is frequently calibrated using manual DBH measurements or static terrestrial laser scans (STLS) of sample plots. Although reliable, this method is time-consuming, which greatly hampers its use. Here, a handheld mobile terrestrial laser scanning (HMTLS) was demonstrated to be a useful alternative technique to precisely and efficiently calculate DBH. Different data acquisition techniques were applied at a sample plot, then the resulting parameters were comparatively analysed. The calculated DBH values were comparable to the manual measurements for HMTLS, STLS, and ALS data sets. Given the comparability of the extracted parameters, with a reduced point density of HTMLS compared to STLS data, and the reasonable increase of performance, with a reduction of acquisition time with a factor of 5 compared to conventional STLS techniques and a factor of 3 compared to manual measurements, HMTLS is considered a useful alternative technique. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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