Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13142753
Keywords
precise forestry; precise forest management; LiDAR; ALS data; tree segmentation; tree tops; tree detection; forest; forest management; coniferous forest
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- Forest Management and Geodesy Bureau
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This paper discusses the importance of accurate and extensive datasets for the practical implementation of precision forestry, as well as the necessity of proper data processing and algorithm optimization. Through empirical verification and parameter optimization, it demonstrates the crucial importance of the quality of empirical data for accurately evaluating algorithm accuracy.
Highly accurate and extensive datasets are needed for the practical implementation of precision forestry as a method of forest ecosystem management. Proper processing of huge datasets involves the necessity of the appropriate selection of methods for their analysis and optimization. In this paper, we propose a concept for and implementation of a data preprocessing algorithm, and a method for the empirical verification of selected individual tree detection (ITD) algorithms, based on Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data. In our study, we used ALS data and very extensive dendrometric field measurements (including over 21,000 trees on 522 circular sample plots) in the economic and protective coniferous stands of north-eastern Poland. Our algorithm deals well with the overestimation problems of tree top detection. Furthermore, we analyzed segmentation parameters for the two currently dominant ITD methods: Watershed (WS) and Local Maximum Filter with Growing Region (LMF+GR). We optimized them with respect to minimizing the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). Additionally, our results show the crucial importance of the quality of empirical data for the correct evaluation of the accuracy of ITD algorithms.
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