scholarly journals Tree Extraction of Airborne LiDAR Data Based on Coordinates of Deep Learning Object Detection from Orthophoto over Complex Mangrove Forest

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 2107-2111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin Sarraga Alon
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Airborne Lidar ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Lidar Data ◽  
Airborne Lidar Data ◽  
Tree Extraction

scholarly journals Tree Extraction from Airborne Laser Scanning Data in Urban Areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 3428
Author(s):  
Hangkai You ◽  
Shihua Li ◽  
Yifan Xu ◽  
Ze He ◽  
Di Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
3D Structure ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Airborne Lidar ◽  
Neighborhood Search ◽  
Lidar Data ◽  
Structure Information ◽  
Airborne Lidar Data ◽  
Tree Extraction

Tree information in urban areas plays a significant role in many fields of study, such as ecology and environmental management. Airborne LiDAR scanning (ALS) excels at the fast and efficient acquisition of spatial information in urban-scale areas. Tree extraction from ALS data is an essential part of tree structural studies. Current raster-based methods that use canopy height models (CHMs) suffer from the loss of 3D structure information, whereas the existing point-based methods are non-robust in complex environments. Aiming at making full use of the canopy’s 3D structure information that is provided by point cloud data, and ensuring the method’s suitability in complex scenes, this paper proposes a new point-based method for tree extraction that is based on 3D morphological features. Considering the elevation deviations of the ALS data, we propose a neighborhood search method to filter out the ground and flat-roof points. A coarse extraction method, combining planar projection with a point density-filtering algorithm is applied to filter out distracting objects, such as utility poles and cars. After that, a Euclidean cluster extraction (ECE) algorithm is used as an optimization strategy for coarse extraction. In order to verify the robustness and accuracy of the method, airborne LiDAR data from Zhangye, Gansu, China and unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) LiDAR data from Xinyang, Henan, China were tested in this study. The experimental results demonstrated that our method was suitable for extracting trees in complex urban scenes with either high or low point densities. The extraction accuracy obtained for the airborne LiDAR data and UAV LiDAR data were 99.4% and 99.2%, respectively. In addition, a further study found that the aberrant vertical structure of the artificially pruned canopy was the main cause of the error. Our method achieved desirable results in different scenes, with only one adjustable parameter, making it an easy-to-use method for urban area studies.

scholarly journals GROUND POINT FILTERING FROM AIRBORNE LIDAR POINT CLOUDS USING DEEP LEARNING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W13 ◽  
pp. 1559-1565 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Janssens-Coron ◽  
E. Guilbert
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Airborne Lidar ◽  
Lidar Data ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Ground Point ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Airborne Lidar Data ◽  
Made In

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Airborne lidar data is commonly used to generate point clouds over large areas. These points can be classified into different categories such as ground, building, vegetation, etc. The first step for this is to separate ground points from non-ground points. Existing methods rely mainly on TIN densification but there performance varies with the type of terrain and relies on the user’s experience who adjusts parameters accordingly. An alternative may be on the use of a deep learning approach that would limit user’s intervention. Hence, in this paper, we assess a deep learning architecture, PointNet, that applies directly to point clouds. Our preliminary results show mitigating classification rates and further investigation is required to properly train the system and improve the robustness, showing issues with the choices we made in the preprocessing. Nonetheless, our analysis suggests that it is necessary to enrich the architecture of the network to integrate the notion of neighbourhood at different scales in order to increase the accuracy and the robustness of the treatment as well as its capacity to treat data from different geographical contexts.</p>

scholarly journals Cloth simulation-based construction of pit-free canopy height models from airborne LiDAR data

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wuming Zhang ◽  
Shangshu Cai ◽  
Xinlian Liang ◽  
Jie Shao ◽  
Ronghai Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Height ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Airborne Lidar ◽  
Canopy Height ◽  
Lidar Data ◽  
Cloth Simulation ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Maximum Tree Height ◽  
Airborne Lidar Data ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Background The universal occurrence of randomly distributed dark holes (i.e., data pits appearing within the tree crown) in LiDAR-derived canopy height models (CHMs) negatively affects the accuracy of extracted forest inventory parameters. Methods We develop an algorithm based on cloth simulation for constructing a pit-free CHM. Results The proposed algorithm effectively fills data pits of various sizes whilst preserving canopy details. Our pit-free CHMs derived from point clouds at different proportions of data pits are remarkably better than those constructed using other algorithms, as evidenced by the lowest average root mean square error (0.4981 m) between the reference CHMs and the constructed pit-free CHMs. Moreover, our pit-free CHMs show the best performance overall in terms of maximum tree height estimation (average bias = 0.9674 m). Conclusion The proposed algorithm can be adopted when working with different quality LiDAR data and shows high potential in forestry applications.

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