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Forestry & Ecology

3D point cloud processing and analysis for towards forestry applications

Point clouds from photogrammetric methods, or active and Terrestrial LiDAR system (TLS) provides a fast and precise description of the area in three dimensions. In forestry, point cloud analysis from these sources can be used to for several applications: TLS derived point clouds could be used to detect and delineate trees, or to extract inventory parameters (such DBH, tree heights and crown shape parameters) at individual tree level; the recognition of individual trees from a combination of nadir looking and oblique point clouds is an interesting possibility; biophysical parameters such as Leaf Area Index, non-destructive tree volume estimates can also be realized. The processing methods of point clouds are still in developmental phase and are challenging research topics. Development of algorithms and open source tools for point cloud analysis for forestry applications is a priority area