LIU Luxia, PANG Yong, LI Zengyuan, et al. Retrieving structural parameters of individual tree through terrestrial laser scanning data[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2014,18(2):365-377.
LIU Luxia, PANG Yong, LI Zengyuan, et al. Retrieving structural parameters of individual tree through terrestrial laser scanning data[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2014,18(2):365-377. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20143091.
Terrestrial Laser Scanning( TLS) has shown great potential in obtaining the structural parameters of individual trees in past decades. In this work
three-dimensional point cloud data generated from TLS were obtained for a homogeneous forest plot with20 Pinus bungeana( Pinus bungeana Zucc) trees. Through the analysis of the vertical profile of the point cloud data of an individual tree
a voxel-based method was developed to estimate crown base height. Further
the tree crowns were delineated by calculating the convex hull of each horizontal sliced point cloud data at different heights. In addition
crown volume
crown width
tree height
and Diameter at Breast Height( DBH) were estimated at the same time. The TLS-based estimation captured 97% variation of the manually measured clear bole height( n = 20
Root Mean Square Error( RMSE) = 0. 21 m
p = 0. 01). The R2and RMSE of DBH provided the coefficient of R2was 0. 79 and 1. 07 cm( n = 20)
respectively. Crown length
DBH
and crown width were selected to predict crown volume by the stepwise linear regression method
and statistical analysis showed that the linear regression m odel explained 96. 7% of the crown volume variance with an RMSE of 2. 64 m3( n = 20
p = 0. 01). The method developed in this i nvestigation accurately estimated crown base height and crown geometry and can thus facilitate the application of TLS in precision forestry.
关键词
地基激光雷达体元化2维凸包枝下高树冠轮廓树冠体积
Keywords
terrestrial laser scanningvoxelconvex hullcrown base heightcrown outlinecrown volume