Accurate individual tree locations enable efficient forest inventory management and automation, support precise forest surveys, management decisions and future individual-tree harvesting plans. In this paper, we compared and analyzed in detail the performance of an ultra-wideband (UWB) data-driven method for mapping individual tree locations in boreal forest sample plots of varying complexity. …
Change detection from traditional 2D optical images has limited capability to model the changes in the height or shape of objects. Change detection using 3D point cloud from photogrammetry or LiDAR surveying can fill this gap by providing critical depth information. While most existing machine learning based 3D point cloud change detection methods are supervised, they severely depend on the ava…
Unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAV) with RGB-cameras are affordable and versatile devices for the generation of a series of remote sensing products that can be used for forest inventory tasks, such as creating high-resolution orthomosaics and canopy height models. The latter may serve purposes including tree species identification, forest damage assessments, canopy height or timber stock assessmen…