Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

JUH Eitel, B Höfle, LA Vierling, A Abellán… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Capturing and quantifying the world in three dimensions (x, y, z) using light detection and
ranging (lidar) technology drives fundamental advances in the Earth and Ecological …

Weighing trees with lasers: advances, challenges and opportunities

MI Disney, M Boni Vicari, A Burt, K Calders… - Interface …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] International benchmarking of terrestrial laser scanning approaches for forest inventories

X Liang, J Hyyppä, H Kaartinen, M Lehtomäki… - ISPRS journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Upscaling forest biomass from field to satellite measurements: sources of errors and ways to reduce them

M Réjou-Méchain, N Barbier, P Couteron, P Ploton… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
Forest biomass monitoring is at the core of the research agenda due to the critical
importance of forest dynamics in the carbon cycle. However, forest biomass is never directly …

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 …