Forest inventory and management requirements are changing rapidly in the context of an
increasingly complex set of economic, environmental, and social policy objectives …

Decision making on forest resources relies on the precise information that is collected using
inventory. There are many different kinds of forest inventory techniques that can be applied …

The last two decades have witnessed increasing awareness of the potential of terrestrial
laser scanning (TLS) in forest applications in both public and commercial sectors, along with …

This paper presents a new method for constructing quickly and automatically precision tree
models from point clouds of the trunk and branches obtained by terrestrial laser scanning …

An open source tool named SimpleTree, capable of modelling highly accurate cylindrical
tree models from terrestrial laser scan point clouds, is presented and evaluated. All …

Introduction The use of terrestrial LiDAR (light detection and ranging) scanners in forest
environments is being studied extensively at present due to the high potential of this …

In this paper, a literature overview is presented on the use of laser rangefinder techniques
for the retrieval of forest inventory parameters and structural characteristics. The existing …

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is providing exciting new ways to quantify tree and forest
structure, particularly above-ground biomass (AGB). We show how TLS can address some …

The demand for detailed ground reference data in quantitative forest inventories is growing
rapidly, eg, to improve the calibration of the developed models of airborne-laser-scanning …

Terrestrial laser scanning is a promising technique for automatic measurements of tree
stems. The objectives of the study were (1) to develop and validate a new method for the …