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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
Volume 33, Issue 21, Pages 6652-6667Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.692888
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- Gardening Department of the city of Karlsruhe
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The acquisition of single-tree-related information is an important task, especially in urban areas where there is an increasing interest in standing carbon stock. Therefore, an easy and robust method was developed to extract the volume, diameter at breast height (DBH) and height of single trees from point clouds of terrestrial laser scanning. For data acquisition, nine trees were scanned from several positions and the resulting high-resolution point clouds (20-60 million points) were analysed by an algorithm based on voxel structure. First, noise reduction was carried out, followed by filling of voxels inside the stem and branches through the intersection of four orthogonal viewing directions. After the elimination of erroneously generated fillings, volume was determined layer-wise for each cross section. For quality assessment, nine deciduous trees were selected, cut, weighed and analysed for wet specific gravity and carbon content in order to provide a control value. The estimated volumes agree with the control value within a range of -5.1% to + 14.3%. This is also the case with DBH values; however, heights are systematically underestimated.
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