3D Forest: An application for descriptions of three-dimensional forest structures using terrestrial LiDAR

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027073%3A_____%2F17%3AN0000009" target="_blank" >RIV/00027073:_____/17:N0000009 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/17:43913027

Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176871" target="_blank" >http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176871</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176871" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0176871</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

3D Forest: An application for descriptions of three-dimensional forest structures using terrestrial LiDAR

Original language description

Terrestrial laser scanning is a powerful technology for capturing the three-dimensional structure of forests with a high level of detail and accuracy. Over the last decade, many algorithms have been developed to extract various tree parameters from terrestrial laser scanning data. Here we present 3D Forest, an open-source non-platform-specific software application with an easy-to-use graphical user interface with the compilation of algorithms focused on the forest environment and extraction of tree parameters. The current version (0.42) extracts important parameters of forest structure from the terrestrial laser scanning data, such as stem positions (X, Y, Z), tree heights, diameters at breast height (DBH), as well as more advanced parameters such as tree planar projections, stem profiles or detailed crown parameters including convex and concave crown surface and volume. Moreover, 3D Forest provides quantitative measures of between-crown interactions and their real arrangement in 3D space. 3D Forest also includes an original algorithm of automatic tree segmentation and crown segmentation. Comparison with field data measurements showed no significant difference in measuring DBH or tree height using 3D Forest, although for DBH only the Randomized Hough Transform algorithm proved to be sufficiently resistant to noise and provided results comparable to traditional field measurements.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-23242S" target="_blank" >GA15-23242S: Do the laws of the metabolic scaling theory apply in European temperate old-growth forests? Testing at multiple spatial scales.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLOS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

nestrankovano

UT code for WoS article

000400648500090

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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