BLK360 laser scanning of rainforests

In 2019, a permanent 12-ha rainforest plot in East Amazonia, called “Petit Plateau”, was scanned using two BLK360 laser scanners.

A new algorithm was then developed for detecting tree stems and for extracting ground points from the laser scanning data. 36,422 stems were detected, of which 29,665 (81%) were in the 3-10 cm DBH range.

Point cloud files of the plot (raw points, ground points, and stem points) have been made publicly available at:
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14061602.v2

Reference

Tao et al. Mapping tropical forest trees across large areas with lightweight cost-effective terrestrial laser scanning. Annals of Forest Science 78, 103 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-021-01113-9

Contact

Shengli Tao
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Link

Shengli Tao on Google Scholar
Shengli Tao in EDB Lab