[HTML][HTML] Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon

K Calders, J Adams, J Armston, H Bartholomeus… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) was introduced for basic forest measurements, such as tree
height and diameter, in the early 2000s. Recent advances in sensor and algorithm …

Estimation of LAI with the LiDAR technology: A review

Y Wang, H Fang - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Leaf area index (LAI) is an important vegetation parameter. Active light detection and
ranging (LiDAR) technology has been widely used to estimate vegetation LAI. In this study …

Non-destructive tree volume estimation through quantitative structure modelling: Comparing UAV laser scanning with terrestrial LIDAR

B Brede, K Calders, A Lau, P Raumonen… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) product calibration and validation require ground
reference plots at hectometric scales to match space-borne missions' resolution. Traditional …

See the forest and the trees: Effective machine and deep learning algorithms for wood filtering and tree species classification from terrestrial laser scanning

Z Xi, C Hopkinson, SB Rood, DR Peddle - ISPRS Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Determining tree species composition in natural forests is essential for effective forest
management. Species classification at the individual tree level requires fine-scale traits …

LeWoS: A universal leaf‐wood classification method to facilitate the 3D modelling of large tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR

D Wang, S Momo Takoudjou… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf‐wood separation in terrestrial LiDAR data is a prerequisite for non‐destructively
estimating biophysical forest properties such as standing wood volumes and leaf area …

Leaf and wood classification framework for terrestrial LiDAR point clouds

MB Vicari, M Disney, P Wilkes, A Burt… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf and wood separation is a key step to allow a new range of estimates from Terrestrial
LiDAR data, such as quantifying above‐ground biomass, leaf and wood area and their 3D …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic segmentation of stem and leaf components and individual maize plants in field terrestrial LiDAR data using convolutional neural networks

Z Ao, F Wu, S Hu, Y Sun, Y Su, Q Guo, Q Xin - The crop journal, 2022 - Elsevier
High-throughput maize phenotyping at both organ and plant levels plays a key role in
molecular breeding for increasing crop yields. Although the rapid development of light …

Unsupervised semantic and instance segmentation of forest point clouds

D Wang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) has been increasingly used in forestry
applications including forest inventory and plant ecology. Tree biophysical properties such …

Improved supervised learning-based approach for leaf and wood classification from LiDAR point clouds of forests

SMK Moorthy, K Calders, MB Vicari… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurately classifying 3-D point clouds into woody and leafy components has been an
interest for applications in forestry and ecology including the better understanding of …

A novel approach for the detection of standing tree stems from plot-level terrestrial laser scanning data

W Zhang, P Wan, T Wang, S Cai, Y Chen, X Jin, G Yan - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tree stem detection is a key step toward retrieving detailed stem attributes from terrestrial
laser scanning (TLS) data. Various point-based methods have been proposed for the stem …