Remarks on Geomatics Measurement Methods Focused on Forestry Inventory

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21110%2F23%3A00367515" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21110/23:00367515 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177376" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177376</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23177376" target="_blank" >10.3390/s23177376</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Remarks on Geomatics Measurement Methods Focused on Forestry Inventory

Original language description

This contribution focuses on a comparison of modern geomatics technologies for the derivation of growth parameters in forest management. The present text summarizes the results of our meas-urements over the last five years. As a case project, a mountain spruce forest with planned forest logging was selected. In this locality, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and terrestrial and drone close-range photogrammetry were experimentally used, as was the use of PLS mobile technology (personal laser scanning) and ALS (aerial laser scanning). Results from the data joining, usability, and economics of all technologies for forest management and ecology were discussed. ALS is expensive for small areas and the results were not suitable for a detailed parameter derivation. The RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft systems, known as “drones”) method of data acquisition combines the benefits of close-range and aerial photogrammetry. If the approximate height and number of the trees are known, one can approximately calculate the extracted cubage of wood mass before forest logging. The use of conventional terrestrial close-range photogrammetry and TLS proved to be inappropriate and practically unusable in our case, and also in standard forestry practice after consultation with forestry workers. On the other hand, the use of PLS is very simple and allows you to quickly define ordered parameters and further calculate, for example, the cubic volume of wood stockpiles. The results from our research into forestry show that drones can be used to estimate quantities (wood cubature) and inspect the health status of spruce forests, However, PLS seems, nowadays, to be the best solution in forest management for deriving forest parameters. Our results are mainly oriented to practice and in no way diminish the general research in this area.

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

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Sensors

ISSN

1424-8220

e-ISSN

1424-8220

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

17

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

31

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001062824200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85170341080