Operationalizing the use of TLS in forest inventories: the R package FORTLS

Autor: Juan Alberto Molina-Valero, Adela Martínez-Calvo, María José Ginzo Villamayor, Manuel Antonio Novo Pérez, Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González, Fernando Montes, César Pérez-Cruzado
Přispěvatelé: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Estatística, Análise Matemática e Optimización, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Produción Vexetal e Proxectos de Enxeñaría
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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Popis: [Abstract] Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) devices show great potential for application in Forest Inventories (FIs) as they are capable of registering high resolution point clouds rapidly and automatically. Nevertheless, operational use of TLS for FI purposes has been hampered by the absence of algorithms for processing the acquired data, particularly in the single-scan mode, as occlusions result in loss of information. The R package FORTLS has been developed to overcome this obstacle, as it automates the processing of single-scan TLS point cloud data for forestry purposes and includes several features that deal with occlusions. FORTLS makes use of the main advantage of the single-scan scenario in FI, thus improving the efficiency of data acquisition and post-processing. All of these features of the FORTLS package are potentially valuable for the operational use of TLS in FIs, in combination with inference techniques derived from model-based and model-assisted approaches. This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [AGL2016-76769-C2-2-R; PID2020-119204RB-C22] and Galician Regional Government [2020-CP031; ED431F 2020/02]; JAMV was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the FPU program [FPU16/03057]; AMC was supported by Galician Regional Government within the framework of the agreement “Development of the Galician continuous forest inventory” [2020-CP031]; CPC was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [RYC2018-024939-I] Xunta de Galicia; ED431F 2020/02 Xunta de Galicia; 2020-CP031
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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