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Comparison of 3D Point Clouds Obtained by Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Personal Laser Scanning on Forest Inventory Sample Plots

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  • Christoph Gollob

    (Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Growth, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Vienna 1180, Austria)

  • Tim Ritter

    (Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Growth, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Vienna 1180, Austria)

  • Arne Nothdurft

    (Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Growth, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Vienna 1180, Austria)

Abstract

In forest inventory, trees are usually measured using handheld instruments; among the most relevant are calipers, inclinometers, ultrasonic devices, and laser range finders. Traditional forest inventory has been redesigned since modern laser scanner technology became available. Laser scanners generate massive data in the form of 3D point clouds. We have developed a novel methodology to provide estimates of the tree positions, stem diameters, and tree heights from these 3D point clouds. This dataset was made publicly accessible to test new software routines for the automatic measurement of forest trees using laser scanner data. Benchmark studies with performance tests of different algorithms are welcome. The dataset contains co-registered raw 3D point-cloud data collected on 20 forest inventory sample plots in Austria. The data were collected by two different laser scanning systems: (1) A mobile personal laser scanner (PLS) (ZEB Horizon, GeoSLAM Ltd., Nottingham, UK) and (2) a static terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) (Focus3D X330, Faro Technologies Inc., Lake Mary, FL, USA). The data also contain digital terrain models (DTMs), field measurements as reference data (ground-truth), and the output of recent software routines for the automatic tree detection and the automatic stem diameter measurement.

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  • Christoph Gollob & Tim Ritter & Arne Nothdurft, 2020. "Comparison of 3D Point Clouds Obtained by Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Personal Laser Scanning on Forest Inventory Sample Plots," Data, MDPI, vol. 5(4), pages 1-13, October.
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